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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Joe Hinchliffe

The fight for Woogaroo Forest: new housing could silence some of Queensland’s ‘virtuoso songbirds’

Prof Hugh Possingham on the outskirts of Woogaroo forest holding binoculars
Prof Hugh Possingham on the outskirts of Woogaroo Forest. The eucalpytus woodland is home to koalas and threatened bird communities, but is slated to be turned into housing estates. Photograph: David Kelly/The Guardian

A piercing whistle sounds from the canopy of a stand of gum trees at the edge of rows of brick houses, newly built upon streets with names such as Pardalote Drive, Rufous Crescent and Thornbill Court.

“King parrot,” Hugh Possingham says – referring to the call, not a court or a crescent.

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