Australian birds have a lot to teach us about living long and happy lives according to Professor Gisela Kaplan from the Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour at the University of New England.

Wildlife authorities investigating why thousands of birds fell from the sky over a town in remote southwestern Australia have ruled out infectious diseases but are no closer to figuring out what ...

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Hundreds of kilometres from the nearest supermarket, Indigenous rangers in Australia's remote north are working to keep eggs ...

A primary school teacher is getting her students involved in a volunteer-led bird count, to gather a snapshot of birds across ...

Experts estimate the wildfires currently burning through southern Australia have killed over half a billion animal Australian magpies, a species unrelated to the other magpies found throughout the ...

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 ...

Using a horror film to bring your date closer is a classic move in the teenage playbook. Now, a study of Australian birds finds that other animals use the same "scary movie effect" to attract female ...

Two Australian birds, black kites and brown falcons, are believed to start wildfires on purpose to drive small animals out of hiding in thick brush and tall grasses, according to preliminary evidence ...