{"id":8723,"date":"2020-11-30T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T23:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=8723"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T23:32:27","slug":"lorikeets-rule-as-4-6-million-birds-are-counted-in-7-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/animals\/lorikeets-rule-as-4-6-million-birds-are-counted-in-7-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorikeets rule as 4.6 million birds are counted in 7 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8724\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1024px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8724 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trichoglossus_haematodus_-_rainbow_lorikeet_-_profile-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Peripitus\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trichoglossus_haematodus_-_rainbow_lorikeet_-_profile-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trichoglossus_haematodus_-_rainbow_lorikeet_-_profile-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trichoglossus_haematodus_-_rainbow_lorikeet_-_profile-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trichoglossus_haematodus_-_rainbow_lorikeet_-_profile-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Trichoglossus_haematodus_-_rainbow_lorikeet_-_profile-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow lorikeets topped the list of identified species in the 2020 Aussie Backyard Bird Count<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The 2020 Aussie Backyard Bird Count achieves a record response for citizen-based science.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unprecedented numbers of people across Australia took part in BirdLife Australia\u2019s popular 2020 Aussie Backyard Bird Count, which ran from 19-25 October this year. The Covid-19 crisis may even have helped increase participation this year. While response rates rose substantially in every state, the number of counters in Victoria, which had the longest lockdown measures, more than doubled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really shows the importance that birds came to have in our lives this year,\u201d says BirdLife Australia\u2019s Sean Dooley. \u201cAs our personal worlds became more restricted and quieter, birds offered a much-needed connection with the outside world and brought us a sense\u00a0 of solace and delight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rainbow lorikeets topped the list of recorded species, with noisy miners, magpies, sulphur-crested cockatoos and galahs rounding out the top five. The rise of the rainbow lorikeet highlights how traditional European-style gardens have made way for native backyards. The information gathered during the count will help provide a clearer picture of what\u2019s happening with local bird populations across Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 Aussie Backyard Bird Count achieves a record response for citizen-based science. Unprecedented numbers of people across Australia took part in BirdLife Australia\u2019s popular 2020 Aussie Backyard Bird Count, which ran from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,64,45,23],"tags":[903,144,910],"class_list":["post-8723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-ecology","category-environment","category-science-update","tag-bird-count","tag-birds","tag-lorikeet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8725,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions\/8725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}