Woodland bird numbers in Mount Lofty Ranges plummet 45 per cent in 20 years

Society needs to question what it values if it is to prevent birds from disappearing, experts warn, after woodland bird numbers in the Mount Lofty Ranges were found to have dropped 45 per cent in two decades.

A University of Adelaide paper published earlier this month revealed that “specialist birds” like superb fairy-wrens and New Holland honeyeaters had been in significant decline in the ranges, mostly as a result of deteriorating and cleared habitat.

It found 75 per cent of birds that relied…