One Australia’s rarest birds, the Regent honeyeater, has undergone a concerning behavioural change. Common a century ago, there are no more than 300 individuals in the wild today, but numbers have ...

There is growing interest in the use of First Peoples’ words to name plant and animal species. But we must proceed with both ...

The bird-flu strain has spread through bird and mammal populations worldwide, but not yet reached the island continent.

The green night parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis, was once a common sight in Australia. Long thought to be extinct, it has been ...

While the Sarus crane gets the title of tallest flying bird, and at 2.8 meters (9.2 feet) tall, ostriches get the title of ...

Millions of migratory birds are arriving on Australian shores this spring. Any one of them could bring the new, deadly strain ...

Shearwaters are known to migrate from the northern hemisphere to Australia to breed along the coastline. But due to the gargantuan journey, often from Alaska and also northern Asia, many birds die of ...

A wildlife enthusiast on TikTok has spotted two Kookaburras in Scotland - there are thought to be less than 10, maybe even five, in the UK.

Australia's government said on Sunday it would spend an extra 95 million Australian dollars ($64.13 million) to protect against a destructive bird flu strain that has spread through bird and ...

The federal government has announced $95 million for a suite of biosecurity, environmental and public health measures to tackle the predicted arrival of a deadly strain of bird flu. Australia is ...

CANBERRA/WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Australia and New Zealand are bracing for the arrival of a destructive bird flu strain by tightening biosecurity at farms, testing shore birds for disease ...