Despite its name, the Crimson Rosella is perhaps Australia's most colour-variable bird and a cause of this striking and beautiful diversity seems to be a disease that's potentially deadly to many ...

IT turns out Polly might be best served ditching that cracker for some cologne. Researchers have found an iconic Australian bird uses it beak to sniff out its own species, and even potential lovebirds ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Jun., 2001), pp. 20-30 (11 pages) Altricial nestlings solicit food by begging and engaging in scramble competition. Solicitation displays can thus ...

New research has uncovered how different populations of the bird crimson rosella are related to each other -- a discovery which has important implications for research into how climate change may ...

WHILE most 18-year-olds were out with their friends on New Year's Eve, Josh Gordon was caring for eastern and crimson rosella chicks. Josh began fostering these four orphaned rosellas on Christmas Eve ...

Dr Gaynor Dolman of CSIRO's Australian National Wildlife Collection says there are three main colour 'forms' of the crimson rosella – crimson, yellow and orange – which originated from the same ...

A couple of weeks ago we saw a crimson rosella and an eastern rosella paired up together. They were feeding together, then they flew off together as though they were a mated pair. Is this unusual?

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. CLIMATE change could mean birds of a different colour of feather will dominate Victoria's crimson rosella population, researchers say.