Wild-born birds recruited to teach critically endangered regent honeyeaters their lost songs
The young bird opens his beak, but nothing comes out that sounds quite right. Around him, the eucalyptus woodland hums with life – cicadas buzz, leaves whisper, a distant kookaburra cackles – yet the song inside his chest is a jumble of borrowed notes that don’t belong to his kind. He tries again, stringing together … Read more