One of Australia's most elusive birds, a 2,200km journey and a mid-winter mystery solved

A new project that aims to uncover where the Australian painted-snipe goes during winter has revealed why, until now, no one knewGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIt had been three months without a peep, and the ecologist Matt Herring thought Gloria had perished. He had captured the elusive bird on 22 October 2023, on a property north of Balranald in New South Wales - the first Australian painted-snipe to be fitted with a radio transmitter.But contact had been lost, and there was a sticky complication: Gloria's transmitter had been financed by a successful crowdfunding campaign. Herring started preparing an obituary for the avian pioneer for her species. Continue reading...