Australia's only vulture, and a fearsome extinct eagle, are among the earliest recorded birds of prey from the Pleistocene period more than 50,000 years ago -- and now researchers are bringing ...

Red goshawks – unusual, strikingly colorful birds of prey endemic to Australia – have been rapidly vanishing from the continent for decades. The species, which is already considered Australia ...

Birds of prey are apex predators, ruling the skies with razor-sharp talons and wings giant enough to envelop a full-grown man. They spend their lives at the top of the food chain because they have ...

For that reason, these predators thrive during wildfires in Australia. "Black kites and brown falcons come to these fronts because it is just literally a killing frenzy," said co-author Bob ...

Previously, the oldest evidence for birds in Gondwana was a wishbone and a feather found in south-east Australia, dating back to roughly 118 million years ago.

Wind farm turbines take toll on birds of prey. RAPTORS make up to a third of the 1500 birds killed each year at Australia’s biggest wind farm.

But literally in the last week, a plethora of loveable Aussie birds were added to the threatened species list. This includes the pink cockatoo, the painted button quail, Coxen’s fig parrot, the ...