Meet the eastern bristlebird: tragically under-appreciated, and one fire away from local extinction

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news: 3 news outlets
twitter: 27 X users
facebook: 1 Facebook page

reddit: 3 Redditors
podcasts: 1 podcast

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Title	Meet the eastern bristlebird: tragically under-appreciated, and one fire away from local extinction
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.grmyakder
Authors	Potvin, Dominique
Abstract	But here’s why this seemingly unremarkable bird could save other, less obvious species from devastation.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	6	22%
United States	2	7%
United Kingdom	2	7%
Poland	1	4%
Japan	1	4%
Guadeloupe	1	4%
Curaçao	1	4%
Unknown	13	48%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	24	89%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	2	7%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	1	4%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 January 2023.

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#1,057,219

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#113,338

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