Stephen Garnett receives funding from the Australian Research Council. I am an active member of BirdLife Australia. If you did, there’s a decent chance the bird you saw lives nowhere but Australia.

poets and musicians, from Chaucer to Wordsworth, from Handel to Respighi. Birdsong can be a natural phenomenon of intense beauty. But our enjoyment is incidental to the main purpose, which is one bird ...

New research has found that habitat loss is a major concern for hundreds of Australian bird species, and south-eastern Australia has been the worst affected. The Threatened Species Recovery Hub study, ...

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 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 ...

Australia is one of the greatest places to see birds. We are fortunate to have more than 800 different bird species across the nation. At least 370 species are found nowhere else on Earth. They range ...

A highly pathogenic avian influenza strain has emerged in the last few years and left a trail of destruction with mass outbreaks and mortalities worldwide – and not just in birds. Australia is bracing ...

Rochelle Steven receives funding from BirdLife Australia. She is affiliated with BirdLife Southern Queensland. Guy Castley receives funding from Birdlife Australia and is affiliated with the Glossy ...