Australia’s best-known twins have found themselves at the centre of a possible bird flu scare after a sick seabird was ...

Scientists have detected the highly contagious H5 bird flu in an Australian seabird for the first time, the government said ...

Australia confirms its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a seabird near Esperance, Western Australia, meaning the virus has now reached every continent.

Australia is racing to contain the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), which is now believed to have infected ...

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has now been found in a second state, South Australia, after earlier being identified in Western Australia. Authorities have confirmed three seabirds have died of ...

South Australia is investigating a fresh suspected bird flu case after a giant petrel found near Hardwicke Bay on the Yorke ...

H5N1 bird flu has reached Australia, the last continent it had spared. It came from Antarctica via seabirds, and the next ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities are testing to see if two dead seabirds that washed up at Fowlers Bay in South Australia were infected with the highly ...

The Australian magpie has swooped to victory as the most common bird sighted throughout Australia’s backyards, parks and neighbourhoods. More than 64,000 Australians took part in the 2025 Aussie Bird ...

Research published in Biology Letters by scientists at Western Sydney University provides the first clear evidence that a species of perching bird (the passerines) can employ torpor—an energy-saving ...