Populations of some of Australia's iconic birds—including the laughing kookaburra, magpie and willie wagtail—are in decline in parts of the country, according to a report released Wednesday, with ...

Scientists tracked bird population in Canberra’s botanic gardens and found climate impacts starting to affect them ...

Many areas in the world are covered by hundreds of almost nine feet high, dome-like mounds with a diameter of ten to over hundred feet. In Washington state, the hillocks are called Mima-mounds after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shutterstock Up to 216 Australian birds are now threatened – compared with 195 a decade ago – and climate change is now the main ...

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 ...

Cats in Australia have swallowed many, many canaries. Over a million birds are eaten a day by hungry cats — both feral and pets. A study in the journal Biological Conservation says that cats are on a ...

CANBERRA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, after ...

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 ...

With legs like a velociraptor and a striking neon blue neck, the southern cassowary cuts a fearsome figure in the rainforests of northeast Australia. It is best to admire these human-sized birdies—and ...