Hundreds of rainbow lorikeets have fallen from the sky in the past week, paralyzed by an illness researchers have struggled to understand. More than 200 paralyzed birds were taken into care around ...

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 century. A ...

Once thought extinct, the night parrot is one of Australia’s most elusive birds, blending science and Indigenous knowledge in ...

Australia is the Land of the Parrot — few places in the world have such a dazzling array of colourful and clever members of the psittacine family. Many native Australian parrots have weathered ...

Scientists have discovered the latest fad sweeping across the sulphur-crested cockatoo parrots of Sydney, Australia: lifting up trash can lids to score a snack. In a new study this week, they detail ...

An elusive, nocturnal parrot disappeared for more than a century. An unlikely rediscovery led to ornithological scandal — and then hope. By Anthony Ham There had been no confirmed sightings of a live ...

Some peculiar parrots in Australia might be using pungent plants to get high. These bizarre birds, named Norfolk Island green parrots, were spotted rubbing chewed-up plants to their feathers, ...

Bird flu, or H5N1, has touched most of the globe, but there is one spot it hasn't reached. Researchers down under are preparing for it, but gaps in bird flu surveillance elsewhere makes it difficult.

An album consisting of the sounds of endangered Australian birds has made its way to the top of the country's music charts after a heavy push on social media. "Songs of Disappearance" was released Dec ...

When Barbara Klump ran into homeowners on trash-collection day, she would tell them that something very special was happening in their suburb of Sydney. She meant the birds. The big white ones?, the ...