Experts believe this phenomenon exceeds the usual amount expected from natural causes and are urging the public to photograph ...

Authorities have culled 2.4 million birds to try and control two large avian influenza outbreaks that have resulted in intermittent but ongoing egg shortages. So far Australia has managed to avoid ...

Farming” behaviour is very unusual in the non-human world. As lyrebirds forage, they cultivate the soil and shore up their own food sources.

They’ve also earned the dubious distinction of being “the world’s most dangerous bird.” Its more famous flightless cousin, the emu, is one of Australia’s national symbols. But ...

In the wet forests of southeastern Australia, superb lyrebirds engage in extraordinary behavior—tilling the soil to create ...

As the name suggests, this migration route extends between Siberia and East Asia and large parts of Australia. However, the populations of many bird species along this migration route are rapidly ...

One of the Victorian carcharodontosaur shinbones was found on the Otway Coast. The other was found on the Bass Coast, in rocks nearly 10 million years older. This demonstrates these predators were ...

The mountain peaks of a landscape now under water are all that remains visible of a once grassy plain that connected Tasmania ...

Immerse yourself in the world of parrots: a kaleidoscope of colour in the canopy, a burst of chatter as a flock gathers, and ...

In August 2018, Mr Greg Hill, an Australian national ... it appeared that a large bird got sucked into the engine. The flight was later cancelled after passengers were made to disembark from ...

There was never a time when the world seemed large to them ... Native to southeastern Australia, the bright green superb parrot (Polytelis swainsonii) is one of 10,000 bird species enlivening ...