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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Credit: Dejan Stojanovic/ANU 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 ...

Should it, and other Australian species named after people, be renamed? I’m not sure, but I do know this reclusive rainforest bird has a fascinating and surprisingly complex etymology. The Albert’s ...

On a remote Australian island renowned for its natural ... World Heritage List for its volcanic landscape and numerous bird species. It is home to about 44,000 sable shearwaters — also known ...