Northern Australia’s tropical savannas often catch fire. In some regions, fires sweep through the land every couple of years, ...

The Australian magpie has swooped to victory as the most common bird sighted throughout Australia’s backyards, parks and ...

More than 64,000 enthusiastic twitchers took place in BirdLife Australia’s Aussie Bird Count, counting and recording 5.27 ...

A virulent strain of bird flu continues to spread across the world. Australia, New Zealand and Pacific nations are the only countries free from the infection, but this will no doubt change. Known as ...

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 has shown. Australia has over 750 native bird species. But many of them are facing an ...

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 ...

Michelle Cawthorn, a work from the Anni's Birds series (2025) (all images courtesy the artists) BETHANY, Connecticut — Shortly after I met Peter Sharp and Michelle Cawthorn, Australian artists who had ...

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 ...

A set of fossilised footprints found in Australia, which date from over 120 million years ago, are the oldest traces of birds in the southern continents. The earliest birds evolved from theropod ...

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 ...