Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...

A beloved Australian bird best known for its stunning tail and powers of mimicry may have a cunning hidden talent.

The endangered hooded plover is facing "death by a thousand cuts" as rising sea levels and weeds originally planted to stop erosion reduce traditional nesting areas.

The orange-bellied parrot, just bigger than a budgerigar, only breeds in Tasmania and travels to coastal Victoria and South ...

A beloved Australian bird best known for its stunning tail and ... is mainly found in the moist eucalypt forests in south-eastern Australia. Dr Maisey said lyrebirds, through foraging, heavily ...

French scientists say the H5N1 strain of avian influenza travelled more than 5,000 kilometres from South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean to the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands in the ...