Scientists sequenced the genome of the Australian black swan and the mute swan ... viruses that circulate all the time in wild birds and cause little to no disease. Only certain strains of two ...

JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 The plains-wanderer is an unusual little bird that lives in the grasslands of Australia ... white and black feathers that make streaky or ...

"They've been sighted only once in every 81,000 citizen science bird surveys on the east coast of Australia. "But there are so few recent sightings that this mysterious little bird could be extinct." ...

An outbreak of bird flu could wipe out black swans in Australia, a new study has warned. Experts say the famous birds are in a “highly precarious situation” as they are particularly vulnerable ...