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Eating mutton bird is part of a long culture in the Furneaux Island group. While the rest of Australia is enjoying the short-tailed shearwater with binoculars, island dwellers are getting out their knives and forks.

Beloved Australian songbird will risk life and limb for its breeding group but ignore cries for help from unfamiliar birds, scientists say

A species of duck that has not been seen in Central Australia for more than 120 years turns up at the Alice Springs sewage ponds.

Parks Victoria has taken samples for testing, with an expert suggesting the source could be avian botulism

Increase in reports of the koel and its loud mating call south of its usual territory may be attributable to climate change, scientists say

Footage of the barrage has been watched 1.5m times, with one expert saying the bird might have been simply being playful

The night calls that are said to herald the Australian summer have continued later than usual. Here’s why

According to an online warning, decorations such as fake spiderweb ‘take a terrible toll’ on birds. We ask the experts how big a problem it is

Satellite tag data suggests five-month-old migratory bird did not stop during voyage which took 11 days and one hour to reach Tasmania

Opponents of proposed project in Ramsar-listed wetlands say developer’s impact statement is “fantasy”

Landowner and bird experts cast doubt on Queensland government’s snail poison theory