Extreme fires that surged through South Australia and Victoria last month killed entire populations of threatened native birds.
After ten years of extensive efforts to boost numbers of the Black-eared Miner bird, one of two small populations in Victoria was entirely burnt.
The two conservation parks for the endangered Mallee Emu-wren were also engulfed.
Ecologists are calling for urgent action to prevent the extinction of both birds.
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