Researchers found 778 individual pieces of plastic in one bird on Australia's Lord Howe Island Rachel McRady is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been an entertainment journalist for more than ...

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia Gulledge has more than 11 years of experience in national and local news, covering a wide range of issues for CNN, FOX 5 ...

Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown. The study is published in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A virulent strain of bird flu continues to spread across the world. Australia, New Zealand and Pacific nations are the only countries free from the infection, but this will no doubt change. Known as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. Well, if ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People are far too eager to talk smack on Australia's wildlife, going into great detail about how nightmarish and deadly it all is ...

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 ...

Australasian Gannets are one reason to get out bird-watching this weekend. Martin Sharman/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Here’s an activity for you this weekend: either staying at home or heading bush, count the ...