Bird news

The latest news about native birds.

Show filters

General General

World Wetlands Day 2025

  • Birdlife Australia
  • Sunday, 2 February 2025
Read more
Celebrating World Wetlands Day! Discover why we need wetlands – and why they need us.
General General

Birds to look out for in February

  • Birdlife Australia
  • Saturday, 1 February 2025
Read more
Find out more about birds to see around Australia in February, including Double-banded Plovers, Black-faced Monarchs and Sharp-tailed Sandpipers.
Australian Birdlife magazine

Sharing Our Shores

  • Birdlife Australia
  • Friday, 31 January 2025
Read more
When you head to the beach for a day of fun in the sun, chances are you’ll be sharing the shore with migratory and beach-nesting birds.
Listicle Listicle

10 weird, wacky and wonderful Australian birds

  • Birdlife Australia
  • Friday, 31 January 2025
Read more
Meet some of Australia’s most unusual, unique and fascinating bird species, as featured in our 2025 calendar.
News News

Put water out for birds this summer

  • Birdlife Australia
  • Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Read more
Putting water out for birds is an easy way to help the native birds around you during hot weather.
News News

Red Goshawk photographed for first time in Central Australia

  • Birdlife Australia
  • Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Read more
It's the first confirmed sighting of Australia’s rarest bird of prey in the region in 30 years.
Australian Birdlife magazine

Avian Influenza continues its spread around the globe

  • Birdlife Australia
  • Monday, 23 December 2024
Read more
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza continues its spread around the globe, reaching Antarctica earlier this year. Australia remains free of the variant – for now.
General General

BirdLife Australia Rarities Committee report

  • Birdlife Australia
  • Friday, 20 December 2024
Read more
The BirdLife Australia Rarities Committee Report contains assessments and details of sightings of rare birds that have been reported to BirdLife Australia.
News News

2024 Eastern Australian Waterbird Survey results

  • Birdlife Australia
  • Friday, 20 December 2024
Read more
Latest Eastern Australian Waterbird Survey reveals dramatic decline in waterbirds counted in the Murray‒Darling Basin.