If you’ve ever seen an Australian finch, you know that it has a brightly colored red, orange, or yellow bill. But how and why do these birds develop one color over another? A new study has ...

More than 90% of birds worldwide fall into this “joint parenting” category – and in Australia, many of them stay together for a long time. Indeed, Australia is a hotspot for these ...

The Australian magpie is one of the cleverest birds on earth. It has a beautiful song of extraordinary complexity. It can recognize and remember up to 30 different human faces.

Australian birds have weaponized fire because what we really need now is something else to make us afraid Raptors, including the whistling kite, are intentionally spreading grass fires in northern ...

A little raven (Corvus mellori) in the Nullarbor.These birds are native to South-East Australia and are related to Australia’s crows. Barry Baker Climate rules. The story starts more than 45 ...

While Australia is known for sharks, this Tik Tok user warns that it’s the birds you really have to watch out for. TikTok / @daegancoyne “They are really effective at keeping predators from ...

From studying the Gouldian finch in northern Australia and in captivity, ... Gouldian finches come in two genetic varieties or colour morphs – those with red heads and those with black heads. Genetic ...

Birds in Australia face an onslaught from both feral and domestic cats, which kill more than one million of them every day.. The figure is revealed by a new study, published in Biological ...

Gouldian finches come in two varieties, with easily identifiable red and black heads. Previous reserach has shown that the different strains are genetically incompatible, and offspring of mixed ...

On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch. Seabirds have been fishing plastic from the ocean and feeding it to their chicks, researchers say.

The man also allegedly packed several live birds inside his luggage, bringing the total of live birds found in the man’s possession to 18, including 11 varieties listed as endangered species.