The Latest Breaking News from Sean Dooley

Moveable feast: myna birds on Sydney train looking for food not ‘joyride’ in viral video

Mynas are ‘incredibly good learners’ and likely hopped on the inner-city train to scrounge, expert says

The Guardian - AU · Sep 4

First Australian mass mortality event suspected as deadly bird flu virus rapidly escalates among native birds

Helicopter surveillance finds dead and dying greater crested terns off South Australian coast as H5 virus spreads

The Guardian - AU · Aug 1

I was a hardcore twitcher. I understand why the Cocos booby has Australia’s birders in a frenzy

Twitchers can be the subject of derision but they have greatly expanded our understanding of birdlife in the age of extinction

The Guardian - AU · Jun 13

Which way will the wind blow? Decision day looms for planned windfarm on Tasmania’s Robbins Island

Bird lovers and business leaders await verdict on a long-fought proposal to build up to 100 turbines

The Guardian - AU · Aug 15, 2025

A high-flying visitor – the wondrous far eastern curlew – faces fresh threat in NT wetlands haven

Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems

The Guardian - AU · Apr 7, 2025

Rainbow lorikeet is our most commonly spotted bird, Australia’s largest citizen science event finds

About 57,000 people participated in the Aussie Bird Count, with the lorikeet joining the noisy miner and magpie in the top three spots

The Guardian - AU · Apr 6, 2025

‘It’s gang-gang country’: the landholders restoring farmland to forest in the Victorian alps

Karst Kreun is planting 90,000 native trees on a Mansfield property to restore the land ‘as close as I can to what it was 200 years ago’

The Guardian - AU · Nov 9, 2024

High-flying life of Australia’s birds revealed in new detail – thanks to weather radars

Researchers gain deeper understanding of bird migration in study that could have ‘profound’ implications for windfarms

The Guardian - AU · Oct 27, 2024

‘I felt like a bird god’: why comedian Geraldine Hickey is excited for this year’s Aussie Bird Count

The keen birdwatcher encourages others to take 20 minutes out of their day, describing the experience as ‘meditative’

The Guardian - AU · Oct 13, 2024

Protecting private land to save the plains-wanderer, a bird ‘teetering on the edge of extinction’

With an estimated wild population of just 250, they may be Australia’s rarest bird and most of their remaining habitat is on farmland

The Guardian - AU · Jul 9, 2024