Bird of the year: black-throated finch triumphs in 2019 poll – as it happened
by Naaman Zhou from on (#4V4G7)
The final votes in the Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll have been counted and the results are in
" How the highly endangered black-throated finch harnessed support of conservationists
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And with that, we'll be wrapping up our live coverage for this morning.
The black-throated finch, on debut, has landed with the biggest winning margin in bird of the year history.
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Magpies, the 2017 winners, have staged a walkout after learning this morning's result.
Lorena Allam, Guardian Australia's Indigenous affairs editor and magpie supporter, captured this image from her home this morning.
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