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

Following mass deaths within a population of elephant seals, H5N1 has been officially confirmed on Heard Island.

Occurred on November 29, 2025 / Seaford Rise, South Australia, Australia Info from Licensor: "A very cute family of native Australian tawny frogmouth birds are sitting in a gum tree near a walking ...

A deadly strain of bird flu has reached has reached one of Australia's sub-Antarctic islands, the federal government has ...

An elusive, nocturnal parrot disappeared for more than a century. An unlikely rediscovery led to ornithological scandal — and then hope. By Anthony Ham There had been no confirmed sightings of a live ...

CANBERRA, Australia — A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a nonstop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 8,435 miles from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a bird ...

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, ...

Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a paper on the remarkable phenomenon of sex reversal in several ...

Songs of Disappearance is an collection of bird calls from 53 threatened Australian species. And for a brief spell, it was a best-selling album. For most of December, Adele had the top selling album ...