An album composed of the songs tweeted, chirped and whistled by some of Australia's most endangered birds has climbed into the top five on the country's album sales chart. "Songs of Disappearance" ...

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Stephen Garnett receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is affiliated with BirdLife Australia for which he coordinates the threatened species committee. Australia is losing its birds ...

Songs of Disappearance is an collection of bird calls from 53 threatened Australian species. And for a brief spell, it was a best-selling album. For most of December, Adele had the top selling album ...

The barking owl is one of the 53 endangered bird species featured on the album. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons In a surprising twist, an album of bird songs winged its way ahead of Grammy-winning ...

Here's an act that was #1 on the Australian pop charts in the early 1980's. Careful, it's almost unintelligible, but have a watch of it and see if you can make head or tail of what he's saying: The ...

New generations of a critically endangered species of songbird are failing to learn the tunes they need for courtship. It could lead to extinction. A male regent honeyeater in Australia. Researchers ...