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“Songs of Disappearance” debuted at number five on Australia’s ARIA charts — ahead of ABBA, Mariah Carey and Billie Eilish ...
An album composed of the songs tweeted, chirped and whistled by some of Australia's most endangered birds has climbed into the top five on the country's album sales chart. "Songs of Disappearance ...
You’ve written a book about the phenomenon of birdsong. Why? One of the biggest questions I got from readers after my last book, Why Do Birds Do That? was, “Why do they sing?” And the more I answered ...
The barking owl is one of the 53 endangered bird species featured on the album. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons In a surprising twist, an album of bird songs winged its way ahead of Grammy ...
Birdsong Album Tops Australian Music Charts 'Songs of Disappearance' features the calls of 53 threatened Australian birds.
It found 216 Australian birds are now threatened with extinction, mainly due to climate change. The devastating findings of the action plan are what spawned our idea.
How Does That Song Go? This Bird Couldn’t Say. New generations of a critically endangered species of songbird are failing to learn the tunes they need for courtship. It could lead to extinction.
Here's an act that was #1 on the Australian pop charts in the early 1980's. Careful, it's almost unintelligible, but have a watch of it and see if you can make head or tail of what he's saying ...