What does it mean to save threatened species? How often do we achieve it? And how often do we fail? Our new research answers these questions for Australian birds. We found extinction risks had reduced ...

It has now been seemingly confirmed that birds of prey in Australia are not only responsible for the spread of wildfires, but that they are doing it deliberately. This means that humans are not unique ...

Two Australian birds – brown falcons and the black kites – are believed to deliberately start bush fires to coax their prey out of hiding. Researchers all over the world are studying how these birds ...

When the avian uprising inevitably occurs, humans will be wise to defect immediately to the Bird Army. A new study suggests that certain species of birds in Australia have figured out a way to spread ...

Experts estimate the wildfires currently burning through southern Australia have killed over half a billion animal Australian magpies, a species unrelated to the other magpies found throughout the ...

A giant flightless bird known as Genyornis newtoni (R) is surprised on her nest by a 1 ton, predatory lizard named Megalania prisca in Australia roughly 50,000 thousand years ago, in this illustration ...

Scientists have documented a surprising rate of sex reversal in wild Australian birds, a phenomenon that could be explained by rising pollution or other environmental triggers. A study of five common ...

These charming children’s books are not actually sold together as a single conservation four-pack for kids, but I think of them this way because they all deal with a variety of conservation issues ...

Of the many thousands of species of birds on Earth, only about 25 are known to do something special with their food—they dunk it in water before eating. Nobody knows for sure why the birds do it. It ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Now that the covid omicron lockdown has thrown a wrench into ...