Male fairy-wrens flirt with danger, singing love songs after a predator’s call, when a female is most attentive. Australian splendid fairy-wrens like to flirt with danger when courting each other, new ...

These mini emu birds are not only small in stature, but small in numbers as well. And conserving them is proving to be quite the task. It’s almost impossible to imagine, but the mallee emu-wren ...

Wildfire threatens the survival of endangered purple-crowned fairy-wrens living along the rivers and creeks of northern Australia, our new research has found. For almost two decades, we studied the ...

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. When it comes to nest defense or territory ...

The superb fairy-wren is likely to become extinct in the next 30-40 years, according to new research based on a study conducted in Canberra. The research, published in the science publication Nature, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two superb fairy-wrens (_Malurus cyaneus_). ARKphoto/Shutterstock When we think of bird songs, we often imagine a cheerful ...

When the federal government gave the go-ahead for a launch facility to be built at a site in South Australia that’s home to the endangered southern emu-wren, conservationists were astounded Get our ...

Can superb fairy-wrens learn to respond to brood-parasitic cuckoos by simply watching other fairy-wrens react to a cuckoo? That’s the question posed in a new Biology Letters study by myself and Naomi ...

Wildfire threatens the survival of endangered purple-crowned fairy-wrens living along the rivers and creeks of northern Australia, our new research has found. For almost two decades, we studied the ...