Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder. Well, if ...

Unlike birds whose plumage is mostly blue, the green coloring of a green bird’s feathers is the result of pigment, not a trick of the light. These birds’ emerald green, lime green, chartreuse, or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Bird populations in mainland Australia have proved ...

Stephen Garnett receives funding from the Australian Research Council. I am an active member of BirdLife Australia. If you did, there’s a decent chance the bird you saw lives nowhere but Australia.

James Watson has received funding from the Australian Research Council, National Environmental Science Program, South Australia's Department of Environment and Water as well as from Bush Heritage ...

Scientists have used data from weather radar not to track storms, but to count birds as they travel across Australian skies. For the first time, scientists have used data from weather radar not to ...