Here’s How Australian Birds Beat Taylor Swift in the ARIAS

Endangered tweets went viral in 2022…

Ellie Baker
4 min readFeb 3, 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 well-known, unlike the endangered birds that make up a recent album. Source

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.

The Superb Fairy Wren. Source

We also have 19 finch species, which are all along the lines of this sort of tiny brilliance:

The Diamond Firetail (threatened) and the Gouldian Finch (endangered). Source

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Ellie Baker
Ellie Baker

Written by Ellie Baker

I’m a fan of new perspectives, and hilarity. And birds. I hope my writing makes your day a bit weirder.