Australia's dairy farmers prepared to face deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu if it arrives
Everything is bigger in Texas, even bird flu amongst cattle. But while there are concerns for Australian dairy farmers they ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN9d
Rare and Elusive Australian Bird, Once Thought Extinct for 100 Years, Discovered by Indigenous Rangers and Scientists
Using sound recordings, the team identified the largest known population of the night parrot, a secretive species known as ...
Nature2d
Why hasn’t deadly bird flu reached Australia yet?
For one, Australia is geographically isolated and doesn’t import live poultry, says Frank Wong, a virologist at the CSIRO ...
Australia's bird flu outbreak has claimed the lives of 2 million chickens, but experts fear the worst is yet to come
Two million Australian chickens have already been killed in the nation's bird flu outbreak — and that's before the deadliest ...
earth1d
Beautiful and elusive bird thought to be long-extinct recently rediscovered
The green night parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis, was once a common sight in Australia. Long thought to be extinct, it has been ...
Indigenous rangers find secret population of one of Australia’s rarest birds
Australia’s Indigenous rangers have helped discover a previously unknown population of the night parrot – one of the rarest ...
Australian Geographic13d
Light in the night: flock of Australia’s rarest bird discovered in WA
Indigenous rangers in outback WA have found up to 50 night parrots – one of Australia’s most elusive birds – in a ...
Australia's largest night parrot population may be protected by dingoes, but mining in remote WA habitat planned
Around half of the nation's total known night parrots live in a patch of the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. While ...
Indigenous outback rangers in WA find up to 50 night parrots, among Australia's most elusive birds
In arid inland Australia lives one of Australia's rarest birds: the night parrot. Missing for more than a century, a live ...
Egg rationing in place at major supermarkets amid fears of new disease variant
A steady supply of eggs is still several months away, farmers say, as the industry scrambles to recover from a bird flu ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN12d
See Ten Striking Images From the Bird Photographer of the Year Awards
The annual contest unveiled its winners, highlighting avian photos that focus on conservation issues, the beauty of birds and ...
The Independent12d
Indigenous rangers find secret population of one of Australia’s rarest birds
“The endangered night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is one of the rarest birds in Australia, with fewer than 20 known to occur in Queensland and, prior to 2020, only occasional detections from ...