New generations of a critically endangered species of songbird are failing to learn the tunes they need for courtship. It could lead to extinction. A male regent honeyeater in Australia. Researchers ...

Regent Honeyeater, which was formerly a common occurrence throughout south-eastern Australia, has fallen into extremely bad trouble. These beautiful black-and-yellow birds are not more than 300 in the ...

Australia is a bird lover’s delight. Even those of us who haven’t taken up birding as an obsession can’t help but be delighted by the wealth of brightly colored, charismatic species. One large and ...

Critically endangered regent honeyeaters are forgetting their songs because there are few elder birds to pass them on. The yellow-speckled, nectar-eating honeyeaters (Anthochaera phrygia), which live ...

Martin Burd was involved in the study mentioned in the article. In Australia, honeyeaters are far and away the most abundant and important nectar-feeding birds, so also the most important avian ...

The pressures of climate change may be strengthening bonds between unlikely allies in Central Australia's bird community as ...