A 1965 pigeon count revealed a shocking Queensland population collapse

Per the Times of India, a Queensland conservation story began in nineteen sixty-five, when a couple started tracking the region's pigeon population. Within three years, their counts revealed a staggering collapse: from four thousand six hundred ninety-two birds down to one thousand four hundred fifty-one. That decline sparked what would become a sixty-year effort to understand and protect the species.

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