From brightly colored birds to the much-loved sugar glider, Australia's native animals are a sight to behold. The island ...

Superb fairy-wren birds is facing extinction due to cumulative climate changes that are reducing its population and ...

When the avian uprising inevitably occurs, humans will be wise to defect immediately to the Bird Army. A new study suggests that certain species of birds in Australia have figured out a way to spread ...

In a study, Australian cockatoos figured out that a new food was OK to consume by observing one another, a vivid example of ...

The sun was sinking over the Mary River floodplain when the noise finally settled. Thousands of plumed whistling-ducks had dropped into the billabongs, brolgas drifted across the glowing horizon, and ...

These charming children’s books are not actually sold together as a single conservation four-pack for kids, but I think of them this way because they all deal with a variety of conservation issues ...

Love, sex and mate choice are topics that never go out of fashion among humans or, surprisingly, among some Australian birds. For these species, choosing the right partner is a driver of evolution and ...

Of the many thousands of species of birds on Earth, only about 25 are known to do something special with their food—they dunk it in water before eating. Nobody knows for sure why the birds do it. It ...

Many areas in the world are covered by hundreds of almost nine feet high, dome-like mounds with a diameter of ten to over hundred feet. In Washington state, the hillocks are called Mima-mounds after ...

The regent honeyeater is a beautiful bird at risk of extinction. So how can we protect it from native predators, such as ...