In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into garbage bins and ...

Approximately 50,000 bird specimens have been rehomed to a new $105 million National Collections Building at the CSIRO in Canberra. The collections include 99 per cent of Australia's native birds ...

Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanyake from The Australian National University ... and a strain of bird flu is a likely candidate.” University of South Australia’s Professor Adrian Esterman ...

the oldest bird footprints yet found on Australia. “The tracks examined by the authors are truly remarkable,” says paleontologist Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche of Argentina’s National ...

Australia is blessed with unique bird life. Nearly half of our birds ... expanding both Indigenous Protected Areas and national parks. These areas can be managed directly for conservation, but ...

It was “the bird-watching equivalent of finding Elvis flipping burgers in an outback roadhouse,” Sean Dooley of BirdLife Australia, told the country’s national broadcaster at the time.

The birds are widespread throughout Australia, and at home in urban and bush environments. Our national bird, the emu, also fared well, with an estimated 2.1 million strolling across Australia.

The tale of the bird that supposedly traveled more than eight thousand miles only to end up on Australia’s death ... secretary of the Australian National Pigeon Association, told The Associated ...

This 23-29 October, during National Bird Week, it’s your chance to do your bit for citizen science by recording the resident avian population close to home. In its fourth year, the Aussie Backyard ...

To provide a first national assessment of the toll taken ... than 330 native bird species – about half of all Australia’s resident bird species. In natural and remote landscapes, 99% of ...

The kiwi, a bird endemic to New Zealand ... for Ancient DNA discovered that the kiwi is not closely related to Australia’s Emu as previously thought. Rather, its closest relative is the ...