Voted for bird of the year? Now make your avian affection really count | Sean Dooley

Help BirdLife Australia build a picture of how our birds are faring by joining the Aussie Bird Count. You can't solve a problem you don't know you haveFind all our bird of the year contentDownload your Australian birds poster as a JPEG or PDF fileRecently I visited Tokyo for the first time and was immediately struck by the bird calls I would hear at each train station. In an urban conglomeration of 37 million people, it was a pleasant surprise to think birds were thriving. It wasn't until I heard the distinctive two-note call of a cuckoo that I became suspicious.It was then that I discovered that they piped in bird sounds to help visually impaired people navigate around the extremely busy stations. In the vast megapolis itself there were very few birds. With the lack of rubbish on the streets, there were hardly even any pigeons or crows compared with Australian cities. Continue reading...