Perth photographer Mark Eatwell spends a lot of time in the Perth hills interacting with splendid fairy-wrens. (ABC Science: Peter de Kruijff)It's not long before the first curious wren emerges ...

Contrary to their pretty name and appearance, some Australian superb fairy-wrens can be ‘aggressive’ in the wild – which may be important for their survival, ecologists say. When it comes to ...

Individual superb fairy-wrens help their families and friends before helping strangers, ... More Australia. (Credit: benjamint444 / CC BY-SA 3.0) benjamint444 via a Creative Commons license.

Pale afternoon sunshine was finally permitted to shine through, warming the house and exposing the antics of superb fairy ...

The male splendid fairy-wrens found around Perth boast a fully blue plumage during breeding season, unlike their eastern-state cousins which show more white on their bellies.

Niki Teunissen/AWC, Author providedWildfire threatens the survival of endangered purple-crowned fairy-wrens living along the rivers and creeks of northern Australia, our new research has found.

Mother wrens bond with their young before chicks hatch - study Researchers discovered that female Australian songbirds sing "lullabies" to bond with and teach their chicks who are still in their eggs.

For almost two decades, we studied the fairy-wrens at a wildlife sanctuary in the far north of Western Australia. Over this time, one low-intensity fire and one high-intensity fire burnt through ...