There was no change, with the cash rate kept on hold at 4.35 per cent. The swooping bird came a little earlier in the year than usual, as such behaviour generally doesn't happen until the spring.

Magnus said conservationists have been trying to increase the bird's population since it became endangered in 1987. She works with landowners to protect the piping plover's nesting grounds.

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