Queensland researchers train artificial intelligence to trawl recordings and help confirm presence of elusive eastern bristlebird
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The fact the eastern bristlebird had not been seen nor heard in south-east Queensland since its Gondwana rainforest home was ravaged in the black summer bushfires of 2019/20 was, in some ways, unsurprising.
For one, there are thought to have been fewer than 40 individual birds in its northern population.