New generations of a critically endangered species of songbird are failing to learn the tunes they need for courtship. It could lead to extinction. A male regent honeyeater in Australia. Researchers ...

Regent Honeyeater, which was formerly a common occurrence throughout south-eastern Australia, has fallen into extremely bad trouble. These beautiful black-and-yellow birds are not more than 300 in the ...

A hidden threat facing one of Australia's most iconic birds has been uncovered in a new study. The critically endangered regent honeyeater once numbered in the hundreds of thousands, but their ...

More than 30 critically endangered regent honeyeaters have been released in the NSW Hunter Valley. The birds are among Australia's rarest species, with fewer than 300 left in the wild. More than 30 ...

Critically endangered regent honeyeaters are forgetting their songs because there are few elder birds to pass them on. The yellow-speckled, nectar-eating honeyeaters (Anthochaera phrygia), which live ...

Rob Heinsohn receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The study reported here was funded by an Australian Government Wildlife and Habitat Bushfire Recovery Program grant to Birdlife ...

The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as ...

Despite appearances, Hawaii's five species of recently extinct songbirds known as honeyeaters bore no close relationship at all to the honeyeaters found in Australia and New Guinea, according to a ...

The critically endangered regent honeyeater is losing its 'song culture' due to the bird's rapidly declining population, according to new research. The critically endangered regent honeyeater is ...