News
Biggest budgie flocks in a decade
As boom time ends for outback budgies, flocks up to 60,000 strong are congregating on water bodies.
Tag: birds
Reader Photos
AG reader photo: Victoria’s riflebird
The mating habits of Victoria’s riflebird are captured in this week’s reader photo.
News
Fairy-wrens teach babies password call for food
Unhatched fairy-wrens learn a unique call so they can be identified by their mother, research says.
News
Parrot back from the brink in WA
Muir’s corella and a sun moth have been taken off WA’s endangered species list, as the populations have recovered.
Nature & Wildlife
The faces of Australia’s cockatoos
Leila Jeffreys’ portraits of Australian cockatoos bring out their cheeky, unique personalities.
Nature & Wildlife
Bird boom in Broken Hill
Following the rains, shrubland songbirds are booming in the outback plains west of Broken Hill.
Reader Photos
AG reader photo: Osprey in flight
This week’s AG reader photo captures the splendour of an osprey in flight.
News
Indian myna driving native bird decline
The first detailed survey on the impact of the Indian myna shows it is causing declines in nine species of Australian birds.
News
Birds a twitter: social networkers better off
Tit birds are more successful at foraging food when they’re more socially connected, researchers have found.
News
Half of entire parrot species seen in one flock
Half of the world’s population of our endangered native swift parrots has been spotted in one flock in one location.