Here’s How Australian Birds Beat Taylor Swift in the ARIAS
Endangered tweets went viral in 2022…
I shoved my six-year-old face in the tree hollow and,
“HELLO! Is anyone HOME?”
SCREECH!
I had feathers in my face: two rainbows shot from their hideout.
Rainbow lorikeets are some of Australia’s more in-your-face birds.
But I bet you weren’t aware of the Australian birds you’re about to listen to. Now there’s a chance they might survive, thanks to a brilliant CD that’s made global news.
Australian birds are disappearing
As well as all the parrots, Australia has fairy wrens. They deserve the name. There are 10 species of this magical shimmering dust mote of a bird across the landmass.
We also have 19 finch species, which are all along the lines of this sort of tiny brilliance:
The problem? Yep, this is 2022 so you’ve all probably guessed it: they’re disappearing. One in six Australian birds are threatened with extinction from human activities that aren’t exactly halting.
What’s also sad? Most people didn’t know these birds existed before a recent musical project.
Barking owl beats Taylor Swift on the ARIAS
Songs of Disappearance — YouTube
My brain feels like gold now.
In December, this track composed entirely of Australia’s avian soundscape reached third on the ARIA chart ahead of Taylor Swift, ABBA, Mariah Carey, and other famous humans.
To make it, academics, musicians and conservationists combined hard-won recordings of Australia’s 53 most threatened birds. They hoped the album might reach the ARIA top 100.
