Australian birds Archives

Powerful owls: the reason to protect remnant bushland in our cities

A pair of endangered owls breeding in a suburban backyard shows why we need to protect remnant bushland in our cities.

Aussie threatened birds declined by 59 per cent over the past 30 years

The concerning figures are revealed in the world-first Threatened Bird Index, which combines over 400,000 surveys at more than 17,000 locations.

Land

Jungle royalty: The enigmatic cassowary

Australia’s cassowaries aren’t as rare as we thought, but there’s still much to discover about these enigmatic rainforest birds.

Turning bird photography into fine art: Leila Jeffreys

Talking Australia

Turning bird photography into fine art: Leila Jeffreys

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Leila Jeffreys is a fine art photographer famous for her Australian bird portraits. Rather than capturing her motives in the outdoors she brings them into a photo studio environment and creates truly unique pictures of local birds. This gives her the ability to capture incredible detail and the results are pictures that bend the idea of where nature photography ends and fine art begins. On this episode she talks about how she ended up in photography, what motivated her to focus on bird portraits and her most special photo shoot ever. Here you can find out more about Leila´s work: https://www.leilajeffreys.com/ This Episode of Talking Australia is hosted by Angela Heathcote (Digital Producer at Australian Geographic) and produced by Ben Kanthak (www.beachshackpodcasts.com). You can also follow us on Instagram @australiangeographic

Nature & Wildlife

Five ways you can celebrate Australia’s bird week

Get involved with this year’s National Bird Week to support and celebrate our birds.

Nature & Wildlife

We unearthed these magically illustrated Australian bird eggs

Delicate drawings of Australian bird eggs by the famous Scott Sisters.

Nature & Wildlife

White-bellied sea-eagle preys on feral pig

A unique wildlife moment captured in the Cromarty wetlands of Queensland.

Nature & Wildlife

Renowned bird photographer Leila Jeffreys dedicates new exhibition to the budgie

A sneak peek of some of the photographs that will be included in Leila Jeffreys’ upcoming exhibition High Society, which is dedicated to Australia’s native budgies.

Nature & Wildlife

Rare, white fairy-wren photographed in western Victoria

Photographer Wendy Bernhardt was in the right place at the right time to capture this rare, white superb fairy-wren.

Nature & Wildlife

Rare, white kookaburra stuns birdwatchers

Photographer Keith Smith has come across many white kookaburras in the Blackbutt Forest Reserve in Shellharbour, NSW.

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