CSIRO's stunning new building

Scientist Erin Hahn explains how CSIRO's dead birds help understanding of the environment.

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00:00Right now we're in the bird vault in the new National Collections Facility, the new diversity building.

00:05And here we're standing next to some prepared galah specimens.

00:09So these are species that you might see around Canberra,

00:12and they're just one of the many, many species that we have here in Australia,

00:17which is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.

00:20So these specimens come from different places collected all around Australia,

00:24so we have a really good picture of the diversity through space,

00:28but also time, because species change over time.

00:33Even over the course of the 150 years that the Australian collections have been in place,

00:39species have small incremental changes that they use to adapt to their changing environment,

00:46and we can look inside each and every single one of them

00:49and learn how these species are coping or not with the environmental change that they're faced with.

00:55So we can really take the temperature of how Australian biodiversity is coping with change.

01:01So these reveals go out.

01:07And there's a lot of people that are trying to learn what describes themselves to try.

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01:12Yeah, that was lot of people that don't think them like a six η Control Again here are a lot you might

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