Rainbow lorikeet is our most commonly spotted bird, Australias largest citizen science event finds

The rainbow lorikeet and its colourful plumage has topped Australia’s largest citizen science event as the most numerous bird recorded across the country. More than 4.1m birds were counted as part of BirdLife Australia’s annual Aussie Bird Count, a week-long event which involved 57,000 participants across the country last October. The vibrant rainbow lorikeet has reigned supreme atop the count since it began in 2014. The noisy miner – a honeyeater native to the eastern states which is sometimes mistaken for the common myna, an introduced species – came second. The Australian magpie came in third. While its numbers couldn’t

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