Do you know what a cockatoo smells like? How about a king parrot? Most of us have only really smelled an ibis (and not by choice – their odour precedes them by about half a block), but did you know ...

Think you know everything about our kaleidoscopic lorikeets? Think again. These birds are full of surprises. Loud and belligerent, rainbow lorikeets are the soundtrack of urban Australia. They live so ...

Red-collared lorikeets — a type of parrot — show up every year in Australia acting like they've been hitting the fermented fruit juice a little too hard. Locals report symptoms like "falling over" and ...

A mystery paralysis syndrome is afflicting lorikeet populations in south-east Queensland and northern NSW at a rate scientists say they have never seen Dr Tim Portas pulls the patient from a cardboard ...

Lorikeets in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland are becoming paralyzed, often resulting in death. Scientists are beginning to discover why—but need your help. A new study brings us one ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

RSPCA Queensland had four birds surrendered to them in late November, finding all the lorikeets were suffering from Lorikeet Paralysis Syndrome (LPS). The University of Sydney said the disease leaves ...

The behaviour of a population of rainbow lorikeets who frequent a backyard feeding station on a property north of Brisbane has left bird experts baffled. The lorikeets are eating meat and Griffith ...

In the 1980s, there were no rainbow lorikeets in Canberra; now they’re one of the city’s most-sighted birds. But they’re not the only successful urban adaptor My bird-watching friend Simon is telling ...

A new study examines how color evolved in one of the flashiest groups of parrots—Australasian lorikeets—finding that different plumage patches on the birds evolved independently through time. The ...

When the patient arrives, it can barely move its body. Sometimes it can’t blink. Vibrant green wings falter as the parrot tries—and fails—to fly. A nurse props up the bird’s limp, violet-blue head on ...