Australia’s Indigenous rangers have helped discover a previously unknown population of the night parrot – one of the rarest birds in the continent thought to have been extinct for over a century. A ...

Scientists have discovered the latest fad sweeping across the sulphur-crested cockatoo parrots of Sydney, Australia: lifting up trash can lids to score a snack. In a new study this week, they detail ...

Australia's most elusive bird, the Night Parrot, may not be much better at seeing in the dark than other parrots active during the day. New research reveals that the critically endangered parrot's ...

Hundreds of rainbow lorikeets have fallen from the sky in the past week, paralyzed by an illness researchers have struggled to understand. More than 200 paralyzed birds were taken into care around ...

Critically endangered swift parrots are threatened by ongoing deforestation in the Australian state of Tasmania, with recent estimates suggesting there may be fewer than 300 left in the wild. Under ...

Some peculiar parrots in Australia might be using pungent plants to get high. These bizarre birds, named Norfolk Island green parrots, were spotted rubbing chewed-up plants to their feathers, ...

An album consisting of the sounds of endangered Australian birds has made its way to the top of the country's music charts after a heavy push on social media. "Songs of Disappearance" was released Dec ...

Australian birds have a lot to teach us about living long and happy lives according to Professor Gisela Kaplan from the Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour at the University of New England.

When Barbara Klump ran into homeowners on trash-collection day, she would tell them that something very special was happening in their suburb of Sydney. She meant the birds. The big white ones?, the ...

A set of fossilised footprints found in Australia, which date from over 120 million years ago, are the oldest traces of birds in the southern continents. The earliest birds evolved from theropod ...

Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, after unusual levels of deaths of ...