Australian birds that live on islands are among the species most at risk of extinction, a first-of-its-kind study has shown. Australia has over 750 native bird species. But many of them are facing an ...

A new study has found that about 5% of tested Australian birds have undergone a “sex reversal”—meaning the birds’ genetic sex did not match with their reproductive organs. 480 birds that had died ...

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The barking owl is one of the 53 endangered bird species featured on the album. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons In a surprising twist, an album of bird songs winged its way ahead of Grammy-winning ...

A study of five common Australian species, including kookaburras, magpies and lorikeets, found around six percent of birds had the chromosomes of one sex but the reproductive organs of another. The ...