On the branches of a eucalyptus tree, a kookaburra tilts its head and lets loose its strange, rolling call. Its DNA insists it is male. Its body disagrees. This is not a fluke, but a pattern that ...

Tiggy Grillo receives funding from the Australia Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry as well as all Australian state and territory governments. Simone Vitali receives funding from the ...

Scientists have documented a surprising rate of sex reversal in wild Australian birds, a phenomenon that could be explained by rising pollution or other environmental triggers. A study of five common ...

Earlier this year, a group of researchers published a paper on the remarkable phenomenon of sex reversal in several ...

Australia is a vast island-continent of diverse habitats--including beaches, deserts, grasslands, and tropical forests--that make it a haven for many unusual and rare bird species. From its largest ...

Finding birds all over your car isn’t most people’s idea of fun. After all, with birds comes bird poop, and who wants that all over their vehicle? But maybe it depends on the type of bird that visits ...

One bird species and five sub-species are now confirmed extinct following a long absence of sightings. ONE SPECIES AND FIVE sub-species of Australian birds that, when last surveyed ten years ago, were ...

A new era is born.

For months, Australia's largest supermarkets have been restricting the sale of eggs to customers during an unprecedented bird flu outbreak. But with spring starting this weekend, there are fears that ...

May 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. has imposed import curbs on certain poultry and byproducts from Victoria, Australia after determining highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, in domestic birds. The ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Highly pathogenic avian influenza has spread to a seventh poultry farm near Melbourne, the government of Australia's Victoria state said on Monday. Six of the properties have an ...