When the avian uprising inevitably occurs, humans will be wise to defect immediately to the Bird Army. A new study suggests that certain species of birds in Australia have figured out a way to spread ...

Two Australian birds – brown falcons and the black kites – are believed to deliberately start bush fires to coax their prey out of hiding. Researchers all over the world are studying how these birds ...

A giant flightless bird known as Genyornis newtoni (R) is surprised on her nest by a 1 ton, predatory lizard named Megalania prisca in Australia roughly 50,000 thousand years ago, in this illustration ...

Experts estimate the wildfires currently burning through southern Australia have killed over half a billion animal Australian magpies, a species unrelated to the other magpies found throughout the ...

Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast And that’s where we’ll wrap up this live blog today. Thank you so much for hanging out with us to talk about birds. What better way to spend ...

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 ...

Of the many thousands of species of birds on Earth, only about 25 are known to do something special with their food—they dunk it in water before eating. Nobody knows for sure why the birds do it. It ...

Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Top 10 spotlight: willie wagtail A once-ubiquitous backyard bird, the willie wagtail is hyperactive, always on the move, sometimes flitting ...