A brightly colored bill can be one of the best clues when identifying birds, and red-beaked species are some of the most ...

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.

Royal spoonbills are thriving in New Zealand, with birdwatchers spotting their extravagant head feathers in more and more estuaries and lagoons. The population is now growing at a rate of 10 per cent ...

Birds-of-paradise have some of the most famous mating displays in the world, but there's more to their colorful rhythmic gymnastics than initially meets the human eye. For the first time, scientists ...

Remote landscapes ignited the passion of Marcus Dadd – now a farmer, ringer, agriculture graduate and advocate for people ...

Found in the forests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Eastern Australia, birds of paradise ... Biofluorescence also depends on habitat. Most birds of paradise live high in the forest canopy ...

New esearch shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around ... Aotearoa at the start of the Ice Age, most likely from Australia. Lead author Dr Pascale Lubbe, of ...

The cassowary is often called the world’s most dangerous bird due to its aggressive nature and powerful attacks. Native to Australia and New Guinea, cassowaries are large, flightless birds known ...

The best way to admire nature is by appreciating nature’s most vibrant ... coloured birds. The Western Rosella, a parrot species found exclusively in the southwestern corner of Australia ...

JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 The plains-wanderer is an unusual little bird that lives in the grasslands of Australia. These “avian oddballs” spend most of their lives ...