“Elated” ecologists at Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary wasted no time. Scarlet-chested parrots are “threatened and understudied,” ...
About 45,000 years ago, a now-extinct species of giant, flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni tramped through the forests of Australia. They are known as thunder birds or mihirungs, an ...
The night parrot is one of the great natural enigmas left in the world: a parrot that flies but lives in burrows and that's ...
Our new study, published in Australian Mammalogy today, has achieved a breakthrough: using thermal drones to detect these rare animals with unprecedented efficiency. Alarmingly, 12 of the 14 ...
Remarkable video has captured Australia’s rarest bird of prey hunting in Central Australia, an arid region where the species ...
I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ... [+] pressures. But they will continue to perish if we don ...
But this is the first time people can remember seeing its lesser-spotted cousin, which is native to Australia. A study of bird populations in 2012 found there were just 37 confirmed nesting pairs ...