When the avian uprising inevitably occurs, humans will be wise to defect immediately to the Bird Army. “This may give us cause to re-examine fire history, and the conduct of fire in this country,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast And that’s where we’ll wrap up this live blog today. Thank you so much for hanging out with us to talk about birds. What better way to spend ...

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 ...

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 ...