Bringing back the eastern bristlebird

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Bringing back the eastern bristlebird

The eastern bristlebird is a small, ground-dwelling bird with cinnamon-brown plumage and a cute cleft tail that forages on insects and inhabits the dense, grassy understorey around open forest and heathlands along the east coast of Australia. It may sound like a common bird, but the species is considered endangered by Commonwealth and state legislation, with only four populations left in the wild, amounting to less than 2500 birds. The smallest …