By Cooper Williams If you sit in an Australian park or garden for long enough, chances are you might catch a flash of ...

Superb fairy-wrens are facing "imminent danger," and a well-studied population in Canberra could go extinct in the next 30 years if we don't urgently curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shortening of telomeres accelerates ageing process, research shows – a ‘pernicious silent threat’ Endangered purple-crowned fairy wrens – tiny but striking Australian songbirds – could be at even ...

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 ...