Bird flu, or H5N1, has touched most of the globe, but there is one spot it hasn't reached. Researchers down under are preparing for it, but gaps in bird flu surveillance elsewhere makes it difficult.

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) has shown. The study is published in the ...

Australia’s Indigenous rangers have helped discover a previously unknown population of the night parrot – one of the rarest birds in the continent thought to have been extinct for over a century. A ...

On Heard Island, a remote Australian subantarctic island some 4,000 km southwest of Perth, scientists were concerned after ...

Scientists have used data from weather radar not to track storms, but to count birds as they travel across Australian skies. For the first time, scientists have used data from weather radar not to ...

A virulent strain of bird flu continues to spread across the world. Australia, New Zealand and Pacific nations are the only countries free from the infection, but this will no doubt change. Known as ...

For more than a century, scientists have been unsuccessfully hunting for skull fossils for the thunder bird species Genyornis newtoni. About 50,000 years ago, these titans, also known as mihirungs, ...

A set of fossilised footprints found in Australia, which date from over 120 million years ago, are the oldest traces of birds in the southern continents. The earliest birds evolved from theropod ...

Fossilized bird tracks discovered in Australia show these ancient creatures lived in the southern polar regions on the supercontinent of Gondwana. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The Age of Dinosaurs wasn’t just a heyday of spiky and toothy giants. Birds were just as much a part of the dinosaurian saga as Stegosaurus, and a new find among the rocks of southern Australia ...

Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study has shown. Australia has over 750 native bird species. But many of them are facing an ...