The team working on the study say that fewer than 20 of the birds were known to live in Queensland, a state in eastern Australia.
Before 2020, there were only “occasional detections” of the birds from a handful of sites in Western Australia.
The study saw scientists and indigenous rangers search for the birds in the Ngururrpa Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) of Western Australia, to try learn more about how they interact with other living things and their environment.
They found that there could be at least 50 of the rare birds there, which is the largest known population in the world.
