Birdwatching is experiencing a renaissance, so we’ve compiled 10 of the best locations in Australia where you can enjoy this ...

A childhood bird encounter opened the door to a lifetime following birds across Australia – and learning how they reveal the ...

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 ...

A regent honeyeater at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, which is one of the study sites where the critically endangered ...

One of Australia’s rarest birds is the forty-spotted pardalote: a tiny, 4-inch bird with a yellow face, olive rump, and white-spotted feathers. Although it was once a common find, the forty-spotted ...

In a new study, wild regent honeyeaters became vocal tutors, teaching their disappearing song to birds in a captive breeding ...

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 ...

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 ...