Smithsonian Magazine

These Big, Fierce Birds Found Love in Australia—and Laid the First Southern Cassowary Eggs at the Adelaide Zoo in 34 Years

Zoo staffers don’t know whether the bright green eggs are viable and will ultimately hatch into chicks. However, the eggs ...

From ‘gentle’ and ‘graceful’ to the ‘cane toad of the sky’: how Australia turned on the common myna

The common myna is sometimes referred to as “Australia’s most hated bird”. Originally from South and Central Asia, the ...

Australian Zoo Plays Matchmaker for Giant Birds, and Big Green Eggs Are Proof

A southern cassowary at the Adelaide Zoo has laid eggs there for the first time in 34 years, after a carefully managed ...

Big Bird

What is it? It’s a bird dropping. A big bird dropping. From a big bird.
Phys.org

What Australian birds can teach us about choosing a partner and making it last

Love, sex and mate choice are topics that never go out of fashion among humans or, surprisingly, among some Australian birds. For these species, choosing the right partner is a driver of evolution and ...

Counting crows (and cockatoos, and kookaburras): BirdLife Australia’s Aussie bird count takes flight for 2026

With more than 3.7 million birds counted already, the annual bird survey is on track to beat last year’s record by the time it closes on Sunday 25 October ...

Colourful photos of unique species show why Darwin is known as the city of birds

With hundreds of unique bird species, from loud curlews to colourful finches and even a rare all-black kookaburra, living in the Top End, it's no wonder Darwin is known as the "city of birds".
Hyperallergic

Two Artists Capture Australia’s Ecology in a Bird

Michelle Cawthorn, a work from the Anni's Birds series (2025) (all images courtesy the artists) BETHANY, Connecticut — Shortly after I met Peter Sharp and Michelle Cawthorn, Australian artists who had ...

Birds of Paradise

Learn about the dozens of species called birds of paradise. Discover the dramatic, brightly colored plumage that sets them ...