Wild Neighbours: Urban Nature Up Close

Meet the plants and animals who’ve left life in the bush and moved into a park, street or front yard near you.

Raucous galahs, secretive blue-tongues and landscaping brush-turkeys share our towns and suburbs. And to make a life in the city, they’ve learned to be flexible, resilient and street-smart. They’ve transformed our suburbs into living, breathing ecosystems, places where wildness hasn’t vanished, but simply moved in.

If you’ve ever wondered why magpies sing in duets, how cockatoos learned to open bins or why koalas sleep so much, Wild Neighbours will help you understand the habits, personalities, quirks, ingenuity and everyday dramas of the animals and plants that live among us.

It’s time to get to know the neighbours.

About the author

Ann Göth is an ecologist, writer and science teacher who has written extensively about the natural world.

Urban ecologist Darryl Jones is the author of The Birds at My Table, Feeding the Birds at Your Table, Curlews on Vulture Street, Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood and (Be)wilder.

Ann Göth and Darryl Jones
Published November 2026
Paperback
224 pages 
210mm x 135mm
ISBN 9781761170768