Sulphur-crested cockatoos have shown extraordinary signs of brainpower in a Sydney park, where they’ve been seen turning on water taps, and even queuing to take turns drinking.
Nearly 60,000 Australians ventured outside in October 2024 to take part in the Aussie Bird Count, the country’s largest citizen science event.
It can take a long time for a crow to forgive your transgressions – perhaps as long as 17 years! And it’s a similar story for the Australian magpie. Luckily, they take bribes!
Australian researchers have found superb lyrebirds ‘farm’ the forest floor to increase their prey – a behaviour rarely seen in nature.
Twenty-one native flora and fauna species have been added to Australia’s federal threatened species list, and six species already on the list have been moved into higher-threat categories.
If you’ve never been to the Top End, one of the best ways to start your Northern Territory experience is at stunning Litchfield National Park, just south of Darwin – and listen for the song of garnamarr, the red-tailed black cockatoo.
These eye-catching birds are being reintroduced across the south-east of Australia in a bid to restore the species to its historical range.
As I was coming up the rickety steps of the Zanci Homestead dugout in Mungo National Park several years ago, something slapped me in the face and squeaked. My head snapped up to see, 10cm from my face, a welcome swallow defending its nest site. I was definitely not welcome!
A formidable native bird of prey that eats cockatoos for breakfast has been sighted in Central Australia for the first time in three decades.
As a deadly bird flu continues to wreak havoc across the globe, Australia has so far remained the only continent free of the disease. But experts warn it’s only a matter of time before the lethal virus that causes the disease arrives on our shores.