Northern Australia’s tropical savannas often catch fire. In some regions, fires sweep through the land every couple of years, ...

The Australian magpie has swooped to victory as the most common bird sighted throughout Australia’s backyards, parks and ...

More than 64,000 enthusiastic twitchers took place in BirdLife Australia’s Aussie Bird Count, counting and recording 5.27 ...

Researchers found 778 individual pieces of plastic in one bird on Australia's Lord Howe Island Rachel McRady is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an entertainment journalist for more than ...

The benefits of bird-watching are plenty — it’s relaxing, can offer a mental-health boost, gets you outside in the fresh air, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People are far too eager to talk smack on Australia's wildlife, going into great detail about how nightmarish and deadly it all is ...

Wildlife authorities investigating why thousands of birds fell from the sky over a town in remote southwestern Australia have ruled out infectious diseases but are no closer to figuring out what ...

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 ...

The Age of Dinosaurs wasn’t just a heyday of spiky and toothy giants. Birds were just as much a part of the dinosaurian saga as Stegosaurus, and a new find among the rocks of southern Australia ...

Fossilised prints reveal birds inhabited Victoria 105 million years ago, and they lived alongside dinosaurs. TWO FOSSILISED FOOTPRINTS discovered at Dinosaur Cove, on Victoria’s south coast, are ...