Birds from all over the world flock to shores, bays, and estuaries, but not for the same reasons people do. But some species ...

The bird flu virus of greatest concern is H5N1, which has not arrived in Australia yet. Since H5N1 first appeared in the late 1990s, it has evolved "like crazy", Dr Short said.

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 ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a disturbing feature of the birds around the remote Lord Howe Island in New South Wales—they crunch. The picturesque landscape, located about a two-hour ...

G. newtoni was about 7 feet (2 meters) tall and weighed up to 529 pounds (240 kilograms). It belonged to the family Dromornithidae, a group of flightless birds known from fossils found in Australia.