With legs like a velociraptor and a striking neon blue neck, the southern cassowary cuts a fearsome figure in the rainforests of northeast Australia. It is best to admire these human-sized birdies—and ...

Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown. The study is published in the ...

A subtle shift is taking place. Following decades of unmitigated tech growth, there’s evidence an increasing number of people – having reached a point of digital exhaustion – are seeking ways to ...

Scientists overseeing the breeding program tried playing for their birds the "Blue Mountains Typical," an aria sung by the ...

One of Australia’s rarest birds is the forty-spotted pardalote: a tiny, 4-inch bird with a yellow face, olive rump, and white-spotted feathers. Although it was once a common find, the forty-spotted ...

Australia’s Indigenous rangers have helped discover a previously unknown population of the night parrot – one of the rarest birds in the continent thought to have been extinct for over a century. A ...

Scientists have used data from weather radar not to track storms, but to count birds as they travel across Australian skies. For the first time, scientists have used data from weather radar not to ...

Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study has shown. Australia has over 750 native bird species. But many of them are facing an ...