081 - The Plains-wanderer with Saskia Gerhardy

The Bird Emergency by Grant Williams

Dec 4, 202201:35:31Science & Medicine

A year or so back I spoke with Dan Nugent about one of Australia's strangest and rarest birds, the Plains-wanderer, and the work that Dan was doing monitoring the birds in the grasslands of Victoria and New South Wales....

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