Smithsonian Magazine

These Big, Fierce Birds Found Love in Australia—and Laid the First Southern Cassowary Eggs at the Adelaide Zoo in 34 Years

Zoo staffers don’t know whether the bright green eggs are viable and will ultimately hatch into chicks. However, the eggs ...

Australian Zoo Plays Matchmaker for Giant Birds, and Big Green Eggs Are Proof

A southern cassowary at the Adelaide Zoo has laid eggs there for the first time in 34 years, after a carefully managed ...
Australian Geographic

What’s next for bird flu?

The arrival of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza on the Australian mainland is galvanising nature lovers across the country as ...

From ‘gentle’ and ‘graceful’ to the ‘cane toad of the sky’: how Australia turned on the common myna

Australians now loathe the common myna. But the bird was introduced for a reason – and was often liked and admired for most ...
Forbes

Meet The Australian Bird Whose Tail Is Prettier Than A Peacock’s. Hint: It’s Also One Of The Most Unique Singers

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. Well, if ...
Yahoo

Bird flu arrives Down Under, triggering a race to save local wildlife

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Australian silver gull stands on Rottnest Island in Western Australia. Birds of this species have recently been infected with ...

Students competing in annual bird call competition

It's that time of year where kids from the bush compete for the title of best bird caller. The Borunda Bird Olympics gets ...
The Conversation

The good news: 25 Australian birds are now at less risk of extinction. The bad news: 29 are gone and 4 more might be

What does it mean to save threatened species? How often do we achieve it? And how often do we fail? Our new research answers these questions for Australian birds. We found extinction risks had reduced ...