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Andres Felipe Suarez-Castro, Research Fellow, Ecological Modelling, Griffith University

Our cities are losing the small, colourful songbirds that give us the most joy

Scarlet honeyeater (_Myzomela sanguinolenta_) Marty Oishi/Shutterstock

The birds that fill our mornings with songs and our parks and gardens with colour are disappearing from our cities, our new study has found.

We examined 82 bird species across 42 landscape types in Brisbane. The range of landscapes encompassed parks, bushland reserves, and industrial and residential areas.

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