In 1838, John Gould, the father of Australian ornithology, visited Australia with the intention of gathering material for his great work on Australian birds. In the resulting publication, The Birds of ...

The Duchy of Cornwall said the Dartmoor Curlew Recovery Programme had been running for five years at the national park in an attempt to boost curlew numbers. The project aimed to increase the ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found a critically endangered bird known as the ‘Goldilocks’ of the grasslands in a previously unrecorded habitat niche in South Australia. The ...

A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has issued an urgent warning. New findings point to rapid extinction events set to occur in the next 100 years across 500 bird species. The slew ...

A remarkable recovery effort for one of Australia’s most threatened birds continues to show strong numbers, with 86 ...

Already dealing with predation and climate change, Australia’s endangered shorebirds face a new threat with no cure. Five ...

We take a look at the birds of prey with the largest numbers in the world and the reasons behind their healthy population ...