Nesting makes male birds from species such as magpies, magpie-larks and masked lapwings (also known as plovers) territorial ...

The paradise parrot, as it was then known, was a medium-sized parrot with a long tail and a radiant plumage of turquoise, aqua, scarlet, black and ... only mainland Australian bird species that ...

One of the most common winter sparrows, the white-crowned typically occurs in flocks, which may involve more than 100 birds ... Adult: black-and-white striped crown. Immature: tan and brownish ...

These birds are olive with bright yellow throats and breasts. And their black eye mask is offset by a blurry white line that separates the face from the head. The common yellowthroat is abundant ...

An unusually long-tailed black-and-white corvid with a black bill ... Flight: relatively slow, with steady, rowing wingbeats, but the birds are easily able to quickly change direction in flight.

Black or white, or combinations of both ... Where the air was clean, bark was pale and lichen-covered, and the whiter moths could hide well from predatory birds. But where the air was polluted and ...

The blue-black grassquit, a tropical grassland bird of South ... Groups of Australian magpies produce a remarkable chorus, varying from quiet warbling to loud caroling. The white-crested laughing ...

The picture shows the world's largest fish, a whale shark, feeding on snipefish. Ryan Wagner, who took this picture, is a ...

Found nowhere outside Ecuador, the black-breasted puffleg is a small to average-sized hummingbird with distinctive white leg plumage. This little bird prefers high altitudes, spending the rainy season ...

The black-capped petrel is a small seabird with long, black-framed wings that is also known as diablotin, or “little devil,” due to its eerie nighttime mating calls. These birds nest in the ... where ...

Learn how to live with some of Australia’s biggest and boldest birds including pelicans, seagulls and black swans ... Meet some common Australian animals and improve your English language ...