How little brown birds get overlooked in the protection pecking order
by Calla Wahlquist from on (#398RV)
Ever heard of the King Island brown thornbill? What about the orange-bellied parrot? Can you guess which is more endangered?
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In January 2016, a keen birdwatcher named Dion Hobcroft walked into the Pegarah state forest on Tasmania's King Island with a recorded birdcall and took the first blurry photographs of the King Island brown thornbill.
The brown thornbill, Acanthiza pusilla archibaldi, is a subspecies of the Tasmanian thornbill, distinguished from its cousins on the big island by a slightly longer beak.
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