Passerine (perching) birds make up 60% of all bird species, including some familiar Australian favorites, like the superb ...

In early January, authorities from South Australia’s Department of Primary Industries took to the streets of Adelaide on the hunt for a suspicious individual. This individual had been spotted several ...

CANBERRA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, after ...

Once Australia sent soldiers with machine guns against emus. The birds scattered, survived, and outlasted the operation, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shutterstock Up to 216 Australian birds are now threatened – compared with 195 a decade ago – and climate change is now the main ...

The rainbow lorikeet has been identified as Australia's most numerous bird species, according to country's largest citizen science study. The 2024 Aussie Bird Count, conducted by BirdLife Australia, ...

Experts estimate the wildfires currently burning through southern Australia have killed over half a billion animal Australian magpies, a species unrelated to the other magpies found throughout the ...

Cats in Australia have swallowed many, many canaries. Over a million birds are eaten a day by hungry cats — both feral and pets. A study in the journal Biological Conservation says that cats are on a ...

The Age of Dinosaurs wasn’t just a heyday of spiky and toothy giants. Birds were just as much a part of the dinosaurian saga as Stegosaurus, and a new find among the rocks of southern Australia ...

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