I write about the world of biology. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved surprisingly resilient against a wide range of ... [+] pressures. But they will continue to perish if we don ...

In the heart of the Australian and New Guinea rainforests lives the cassowary, known as the world's most dangerous bird due ...

This suspicion was soon confirmed when BirdLife Australia’s raptor expert Dr Richard Seaton ... and talons designed to catch and kill smaller birds. “It’s an ambush predator,” Richard says. “[They sit ...

More than 60 birds have died after "falling from the sky" in a suspected case of poisoning in South Australia, rescuers say. The animals - two species of corella - were discovered near a sports ...

A crunching of the numbers reveals some extremely sobering facts about the carnage caused by feral cats in Australia. Every day, cats kill more than one million birds in Australia. This means that ...

A bird that has been widely reviled in Australia for decades has undergone an image change ... Their toxin is strong enough to kill most native animals that eat frogs and toads. They had no natural ...