Birds

Geoff Capes, who twice won the World's Strongest Man in the 1980s and competed at three Olympic Games, as well as being a renowned breeder of budgerigars, has died aged 75.

A quick thinking bird handler has convinced 'Mickey' the cockatoo to leave a Sydney supermarket by bringing cockatoo companion 'Dorris'.

A cockatoo named Mickey became trapped inside Macarthur Square Shopping Centre at Campbelltown in Sydney's south-west last month. He "took up residence" at the Coles supermarket before he was captured by a local bird expert.

Mickey the cocktoo is lured into a trap and successfully rescued after being trapped for one month in a supermarket.

An Australian minerals company wants to clear about 1,000 hectares of threatened native banksia woodlands for two WA mining projects.  

Aussie Bird Count encourages citizen scientists to participate in Bird Week to help scientists collect data on which birds can be seen in your local area.

As millions of migratory birds wing their way to our shores, avian influenza surveillance is ramping up. Here's how teams of scientists and volunteers keep tabs on wild bird health.

With no support crew or sponsor these two teenagers have spent more than 280 days on the road negotiating floodwaters, bushfires, and running out of supplies as they cross the most remote parts of Australia.

Melbourne's famous peregrine falcons are giving their live stream followers something to squawk about, with two tiny chicks hatching and another on the way.

Emus might look ungainly when they pick up pace, but they’re actually very efficient runners, a new study suggests.

Beloved native swans are particularly susceptible to a deadly strain of bird flu, according to scientists who fear for native birds if the virus hits Australian shores.

Traditional owners, the Nari Nari Tribal Council are restoring the wetlands in former irrigation farms and last season saw a bumper season for Pelican breeding.

Magpie nesting season is in full swing and wildlife experts want walkers and cyclists to know how best to respond to swooping birds.

Forest revegetation turns the Great Barrier Reef's southern-most island from a barren wasteland into a refuge for a new type of silvereye birds.

As if swooping wasn't bad enough, faking injuries and vomit attacks are also on the list of defences birds use against predators during nesting season.

The notoriously shy yellow-eyed bird edged out other New Zealand birds to win the annual competition designed to raise awareness of threatened species. 

An abandoned cassowary "stripey" is reunited with its dad by wildlife officers, after being found listless and hurt in Far North Queensland.

They may seem like just a beautiful blue bird, but under the surface the social dynamics of the splendid fairy-wren is anything but simple. 

Where would we be without the song, the colour and the activity of birds? For Bob Semmens, 92, conserving birds is a way of life he hopes others will follow. 

Tweety the yellow-tailed black cockatoo is mostly yellow due to a rare condition. While that has resulted in it being shunned by its kin in the wild, collectors see Tweety as a prize — and that is a problem.