Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Reddit A motion camera on an Australian property captured a male superb lyrebird performing atop a courtship mound — ...

But during a hike through the Blue Mountains in June, he stumbled upon something even more unexpected: a rare lyrebird, and was immediately captivated. At first glance, the bird looks like something ...

An Irish backpacker living Down Under has shared one thing she says "no one prepares you for" when moving to Australia.

A man in Australia recently had a rare encounter with one of the country's most fascinating creatures: the lyrebird.

In the dense forests of Australia lives one of the most extraordinary sound imitators in the animal kingdom, a bird capable of copying almost any noise it hears with stunning accuracy. Scientists ...

African music and dance is set to add exotic sights and sounds to the South Tyneside Summer Parade.

After the collapse of Mycenaean society in the 12th century B.C. the Greeks ventured out to sea again in search of new lands – and no one personifies this better than Odysseus and his turbulent ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

It started with half of a sky-blue American robin’s egg. I imagined Mother Nature smiling down on me as she placed the cracked piece of manna a few feet from my front door earlier this spring. My ...

Ken Kostka is largely responsible for the Alle-Kiski Valley’s resurgence of purple martins — a bird species all but wiped out after Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972. The Harrison Township native ...

The proposal was approved by the Conference of the Regions. The focus is on the deaths of protected species and fires triggered by electrocuted birds. Bird electrocution occurs when a bird ...