“The late {{w|Keith Alfred Hindwood|Keith Hindwood}}, a Sydney printer and skilled and deservedly respected ornithologist, considered the {{w|red wattlebird}} to breed rarely in {{w|Sydney}} in his early days (born in 1904, he died in 1971). But in later years he recorded that some birds were always present and breeding. It seems likely that, in part at least, this change reflected the planting of flowering trees and shrubs in Sydney gardens.”