As Australia reveals its bird of the year, Griffith University’s resident bird expert has shed light on the other issue the country is always torn on – feeding them.
Professor Darryl Jones, of the Environmental Futures Research Institute, has released the first ever book on a topic that almost everyone has tried.
Hailed as the country’s go-to magpie expert, it’s fitting the much maligned bird rated number one in The Guardian’s Australian Bird of the Year vote.
Professor Jones covers the reasons for and the implications of feeding birds in the wild in The Birds At My Table looking all international aspects of bird feeding and speaking with everyone involved in the field.
“This is the first detailed history of the practice and confronts many of the controversial aspects, such as do birds become dependent on the food we provide? Does feeding actually benefit the birds? Does it spread disease? Should people be encouraged to feed
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