From impromptu balcony choruses to online choirs, we found our voices during the pandemic Two news stories loomed large for me over the months of the COVID lockdowns, connected by the invisible sticky threads of metaphor. The first was the reportage about the Australian regent honeyeater, a native bird whose population is teetering on extinction. There are only about 350 regent honeyeaters left in the wild, and, according to scientists, as they dwindle in numbers and lose habitat, they are forgetting the special songs that would help them attract mates.

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2022/october/cate-kennedy/how-lockdowns-rekindled-our-need-sing-together

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