Researchers hope restoring the original song will improve breeding prospects for birds released into the wild ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Australian National University have used targeted song tutoring in captivity to revive the disappearing traditional song of the regent honeyeater, a critically endangered Australian ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Male songbirds usually learn their tunes from adult mentors. But when aspiring crooners lack proper role models, they hit all the wrong notes — and have less success attracting mates ...

The bird had evaded experts for 14 months before turning up in a nest with a wild mate in the Chiltern area of northeast Victoria recently. The pair has raised one juvenile, which the Victorian ...

Playing recordings of regent honeyeater songs to young honeyeaters before they are released can significantly improve the critically endangered species' chance of survival in the wild, a study ...

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 ...

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and the Taronga Conservation Society Australia have successfully restored the lost traditional song of one of Australia's most endangered birds ...