A national program to ensure the survival of the critically endangered regent honeyeater is achieving positive results, with a captive-bred male bird attracting a female in the wild and raising two ...

Regent Honeyeater, which was formerly a common occurrence throughout south-eastern Australia, has fallen into extremely bad trouble. These beautiful black-and-yellow birds are not more than 300 in the ...

With dappled sunlight plumage and a sweet, soft call, the regent honeyeater is one of Australia’s most iconic – but underrated – birds The regent honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia) might not have the ...

New research shows unless conservation actions are urgently stepped up, one of our most beautiful songbirds, the regent honeyeater, will be extinct within 20 years. New research from The Australian ...

Rob Heinsohn receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The study reported here was funded by an Australian Government Wildlife and Habitat Bushfire Recovery Program grant to Birdlife ...

These incredible pictures show thirsty white-gaped honeyeater drinking water droplets falling from a tap. Taken by photographer Steve Wilson, 59, from western Australia, these inventive birds can be ...

John Huxley joins a bespoke tour of ardent birdwatchers in search of rare species in the Blue Mountains. Shrill, mournful birdsong pierces the air as we inch along a rocky promontory, looking for a ...

A rare bird in Australia has become so threatened that some young ones are failing to learn how to sing their own song. Scientists say the regent honeyeater, which once had a large population, is now ...

A rare songbird has become so threatened that it has started to lose its song, say scientists. The regent honeyeater, once abundant in south-eastern Australia, is now listed as critically endangered; ...