The Latest Breaking News from BirdLife Australia

Since European colonisation, 29 million hectares (54%) of the forests and woodlands that once existed in New South Wales have been destroyed. A further 9 million ha have been degraded in the past two centuries. This amounts to more than 60% of the state’s forest estate.

Victorian brolga numbers have shrunk due to habitat loss and drying wetlands. Now conservationists are calling for careful planning of windfarms

An increase in gull numbers along the Tasmanian coastline is cause for cheer but habitat destruction has left other bird species on the brink of extinction.

Earth is facing a human-driven climate crisis, which demands a rapid transition to low-carbon energy sources such as wind and solar power. But we’re also living through a mass extinction event. Never before in human history have there been such high such rates of species loss and ecosystem collapse.

Native bird advocates are pushing for duck hunters to be banned from a number of Victorian wetlands as the hunting season approaches.

The satin bowerbird's obsession with the colour blue can sometimes be deadly but a change in milk packaging could help save the showy bird.

Regent honeyeaters raised at Taronga Zoo have successfully been released to breed and hatch chicks with wild birds in a boon for the endangered species.

Hunter's Hidden Gem: 'Monster-like creature' became part of Australian folklore.

The threatened bird index reveals largest declines were in Queensland and South Australia

Australia is one of the greatest places to see birds. We are fortunate to have more than 800 different bird species across the nation. At least 370 species are found nowhere else on Earth. They range from the iconic Australian magpie to the migratory short-tailed shearwater, the golden-shouldered parrot and…

Critically endangered parrot narrowly pips the tawny frogmouth, runner-up for the third time in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll