Tracking species relationships isn’t easy. Yet analysing 422 bird species across 1,410 locations offers far deeper insight, revealing the true depth of the evolutionary history at stake.
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Birds are ingenious when it comes to foraging for nest materials, but in the Anthropocene, this often comes at a cost. Giving them better options is one solution.
Research suggests all of the world’s songbirds can be traced back to Australia.
The future of a proposed rocket-launch facility in South Australia is uncertain. But tensions between space exploration and conservation remain.
A recent study adds a sixth way animals may use magnetoreception.
El Niño can affect agriculture, marine life and economies in profound ways, including slowing commerce at the Panama Canal. This El Niño is likely to be the strongest in over a century.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Tiny geolocators measure light levels and atmospheric pressure to reveal the migrations of small songbirds – including the yellow-rumped warbler, also known as a butter-butt – in unprecedented detail.
Greek and Roman writers were already asking how birds became sick, what signs to look for, and what could be done when disease appeared in them.
New research suggests crocodiles used to have hot blood and fast metabolisms, but gave it all up to lurk underwater waiting for prey.
In Canada, tens of millions of birds are killed annually by crashing into glass on buildings.
With social media communities and naturalist apps, birding is easier to get into than ever. A psychologist explains why it may also be just what the doctor ordered.
A new global assessment of the world’s migratory species finds reason for alarm, but also hope – and a road map for helping them survive.
Hummingbirds are responsible for some of the fastest evolution in the plant kingdom.
Birds that migrate longer distances are the ones having the most trouble keeping up with climate change.
Scientists have extracted atoms from eggshells that are 15 million years old which reveal how plants responded to high levels of carbon dioxide.
A new study shows that it is possible to increase the number of bird species in a forest fragment without increasing its size.
Long-term studies by citizen scientists help us understand changes in nature
Why pigeons deserve more respect.
Some bird keepers have tried to drug their animals to stop them engaging in solo sex.
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Professor of Avian Behavioural Ecology, Macquarie University
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Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University
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Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University
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Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Professor of Evolutionary and Conservation Biology, Australian National University