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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Kat Wong

Jean hoped bird flu wouldn’t come to Australia. Then it arrived – and she saw a tern ‘trembling and swaying’

Jean Turner and David Potter, members of the South Australia Bird Observers Network.
Jean Turner and David Potter, members of the South Australia Bird Observers Network. Photograph: Jean Turner

Bird enthusiast Jean Turner hoped avian flu would never arrive at her doorstep.

At her home on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, bossy fairy wrens chirp at her from the deck, grey currawongs clumsily fall into her bird bath, and fluffy, hooded plover chicks emerge from speckled eggs in front of her binoculars.

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