‘Increasingly worried’: more than a quarter of a million waterbirds disappear from eastern Australia

"Drier conditions have led to waterbird numbers in eastern Australia plummeting by 50% compared with 2023, one of the country’s largest wildlife surveys has found.">>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/16/waterbird-populations-plunge-dramatically-as-eastern-australia-dries-up
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