Scientists hail AI ‘gamechanger’ as they track down bird feared lost since black summer bushfires

Queensland researchers train artificial intelligence to trawl recordings and help confirm presence of elusive eastern bristlebird

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The fact the eastern bristlebird had not been seen nor heard in south-east Queensland since its Gondwana rainforest home was ravaged in the black summer bushfires of 2019/20 was, in some ways, unsurprising.

For one, there are thought to have been fewer than 40 individual birds in its northern population.