By Shreya Dasgupta In Australia, millions of newly hatched Bogong moths embark on an impressive journey twice a year. Each ...

"We know that daytime migratory insects use the sun, so testing the starry sky seemed an obvious thing to try." ...

Using weather radar to track Australia's migrating birds Date: October 28, 2024 Source: University of Queensland Summary: Scientists have used data from weather radar not to track storms, but to ...

Sydney’s harbor becomes a humpback highway in winter as the whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding ...

Bogong moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in ...

When Aussies look up into the sky at the end of winter, there will be a noticeable difference from what we saw a decade ago.

SYDNEY, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Australia's government said on Sunday it would spend an extra A$95 million ($64.13 million) to protect against a destructive bird flu strain that has spread through bird ...

Australia fears a more contagious and lethal type of bird flu could trigger a big crisis for the country's ... She's one of the scientists monitoring migratory birds as possible H5N1 carriers.

A poultry farm [Photo by Fot. Konrad Łoziński / CC BY 2.0] The most likely route the virus will be transferred to Australia is through the migration of infected birds from Antarctica across to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, ...

In a world-first discovery, researchers have shown that Australia’s iconic Bogong moth uses constellations of stars and the ...

Until recently, "wild birds did not have a central role in virus perpetuation," write Marcel Klaassen and Michelle Wille, Australian researchers, in a study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution ...