Concerns are growing for SA's endangered sea lions, prompting a call for a Coorong-based testing laboratory to ensure a ...

Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say. One bird was found to have ...

If you did, there’s a decent chance the bird you saw lives nowhere but Australia. Out of about 850 species found in Australia, 45% are “endemic”, which means they’re unique to Australia.

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. Australia has over 750 ...

What does it mean to save threatened species? How often do we achieve it? And how often do we fail? Our new research answers these questions for Australian birds. We found extinction risks had ...

Nine more Australian birds have been added to the threatened species list and it’s honestly so embarrassing for us humans. Despite the hullabaloo of Easter and long weekend celebrations ...

Australia needs to urgently prioritize state and national conservation policies, according to a new study, with the findings ...

The rainbow lorikeet has been identified as Australia's most numerous bird species, according to the country's largest citizen science study. The 2024 Aussie Bird Count, conducted by BirdLife ...

After 128 years of exploration and fossil excavation, researchers have finally unearthed the skull of Genyornis newtoni.

Avian influenza first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has grown exponentially, alongside an increase in the number of infected mammals. Avian influenza or bird flu ...

But he barely escapes, and she doesn’t stand a chance. The golden-shouldered parrot, one of Australia’s most endangered bird species, faces an unusual problem. In a country with one of the ...