A military campaign meant to rid Western Australia of crop-destroying emus ended in failure. But the surreal showdown highlighted the birds’ critical role in the country’s ecosystem and ...

Habitat degradation and erratic rainfall conditions are impacting the movement of birds through northern Australia's fragmented landscape, a new study by Monash University has found. Analyzing 17 ...

Australia’s Indigenous rangers have helped discover a previously unknown population of the night parrot – one of the rarest birds in the continent thought to have been extinct for over a ...

Emus, towering birds native to Australia, had become a significant nuisance in 1932. Western Australian farmers were desperate as these resilient creatures wreaked havoc on their crops, already ...

Cockatoos in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, will wait in line for a taste of drinking fountain water. Klump et al., Biology Letters, 2025 Australia’s suburban-dwelling cockatoos are ...