Birds

Animal rescue group WIRES says its concerned about dogs and children who use the park after more than 30 birds were found dead from a suspected poisoning.

An unlikely patient in Alice Springs is returned to the water treatment ponds two weeks after being found injured from a suspected dog attack.

The presence of an endangered and "cryptic" parrot species at a northern Tasmanian national park is hailed as "very good news" by a bird expert.

Queensland's department of environment says it has no plans to relocate a cassowary spotted roaming the dry Gulf Savannah.

The Bournda Bird Olympics is back for another year on the NSW far south coast. 28 kids from schools in Wolumla, Central Tilba, Pambula, Wyndham and Tathra competed in the event at the Potoroo Palace Animal Sanctuary near Merimbula, where students did their best impression of a native bird call.

For 50 years Geoff Looney has called the remote Indigenous community of Menindee in Far West New South Wales home. Thirty years ago he started recording information about birdlife in the region which has grown to more than 209 species recorded.

With migratory birds returning to Tasmania during a period of increased bird flu, the chance of the virus affecting the state's coastal areas is on the rise.

Noosa Council has received multiple reports of the crow swooping walkers, which experts say is unusual for the species.

Suspected bird flu has reached Australia's sub-Antarctic Heard Island, with signs of the deadly H5 avian disease observed in elephant seals.

Few birds have nesting requirements as finicky as Australia's largest parrot, the palm cockatoo, which is facing its own housing crisis due to a shortage of breeding habitat. 

A primary school teacher is getting her students involved in a volunteer-led bird count, to gather a snapshot of birds across the country.

Friday the pelican evaded capture for weeks. But a long-overdue bath is for her own good.

Dozens of regent honeyeaters have been released in woodlands in the NSW Hunter Valley in an effort to boost the critically endangered population.

Powerful owls prey on possums, and even koalas, but local bird watchers are excited by the discovery of new pairs in South Australia. 

The song of the noisy scrub-bird is being heard in WA's West Cape Howe National Park again, bringing joy to bird enthusiasts everywhere.

A Canberra man has captured footage of the dramatic moment a magpie plucked his earphone from his ear.

A two-day cultural festival will go ahead this weekend on top of a protected bird's nesting site in Queensland after organisers declined an offer of help to relocate it.

Conservationists say one of the country's largest colonies of a protected native bird is under threat at a two-day festival site.

Numbers of the brightly coloured Gouldian finch appear to be dropping in Western Australia's East Kimberley.

The ACT's superb fairy-wren population has declined by 60 per cent since counting began in the 1980s, but this last winter the figures were even worse, new research has revealed.