With an estimated wild population of just 250, they may be Australia’s rarest bird and most of their remaining habitat is on farmland The wide, dry grasslands of north-west Victoria are home to one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female plains-wanderer in open shrublands dominated by the low-growing woody herb _Sclerolaena_. Saskia Gerhardy In the vast, ...

Critically endangered bird detected after analysis of tens of thousands of hours of song meter recordings Critically endangered plains-wanderers have been found living in Melbourne’s west for the ...

After Australian farmer George Cullinan spotted a strange-looking bird on his property, he was galvanized to learn more about the creature, which turned out to be an incredibly rare plains-wanderer. A ...

About the plains wanderer The plains wanderer is the sole member of its taxonomic family—Pedionomidae—and is listed as Critically Endangered under the IUCN Red List, and under both the Commonwealth ...

For decades, scientists thought the tiny Plains-wanderer only lived in sparse native grasslands. But researchers in South Australia have discovered hundreds of these elusive birds thriving in an ...

Song meters installed on George Cullinan's property have picked up 110 calls from the critically endangered plains-wanderer bird. Excited by the find, the 98-year-old farmer put a covenant on 91 ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found a critically endangered bird known as the ‘Goldilocks’ of the grasslands in a previously unrecorded habitat niche in South Australia. The ...

An Australian zoo has successfully doubled the population of a critically endangered bird by swapping in a feather duster for an absentee father who abandoned his chicks just before hatching. Male ...

Australia's Werribee Open Range Zoo on Friday announced the birth of four plains-wanderer chicks, a species that is listed endangered in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red ...

Tiny solar-powered backpacks, an experimental product, assist a collective effort to save an endangered bird species in Australia. There are thought to be between 250 and 1,000 of these tiny, ...

These charming children’s books are not actually sold together as a single conservation four-pack for kids, but I think of them this way because they all deal with a variety of conservation issues ...