SYDNEY, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Australia on Saturday confirmed its first case of H5N1 bird flu on the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, with the deadly virus found in the remote territory's vulnerable ...

Banded dotterels from New Zealand reached Australia about 4 days later each year from 2014 to 2025, shortening their ...

The H5 strain was confirmed in a southern elephant seal and a kelp gull on Macquarie Island.

When you went out today, did you see any birds? A galah perhaps, or a crow? If you did, there's a decent chance the bird you saw lives nowhere but Australia. Out of about 850 species found in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Australian silver gull stands on Rottnest Island in Western Australia. Birds of this species have recently been infected with ...

Like a dark cloud of pestilence spreading across the globe in a science fiction movie, a highly contagious, fatal strain of ...

A pair of exceptionally rare Cretaceous bird bones found at separate sites near Richmond, Queensland, reveal a previously unknown species—the second formally named Cretaceous bird from Australia.

Volunteers are on the lookout for sick birds as outbreak shatters ‘fairytale belief’ that disease would not reach Australia Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Bird enthusiast ...

A virulent strain of bird flu continues to spread across the world. Australia, New Zealand and Pacific nations are the only countries free from the infection, but this will no doubt change. Known as ...

The Age of Dinosaurs wasn’t just a heyday of spiky and toothy giants. Birds were just as much a part of the dinosaurian saga as Stegosaurus, and a new find among the rocks of southern Australia ...