While walking through this area, I heard singing before I even saw the bird. It turned out to be a Eurasian reed warbler, belting out its song from a low branch. Its powerful voice carried far, and I ...

Ed Sheeran wrapped his New Zealand Loop Tour with expansive, shifting setlists, underscoring a fan-request format ahead of ...

You hear it a lot in foyers. “A short show’s a good show” we cry before heading into the auditorium. It’s shorthand, if you will, for the knowledge that we don’t want to be detained too long if a ...

Woolworths and Big W have released a $6 Lego-like toy set that showcases a variety of Australian animals, including a quokka, ...

Heard a chirp or spotted a flutter? These free apps identify backyard birds by sight or sound — no binoculars or in-depth bird knowledge required.

There are simple things we can all do to encourage more native wildlife to our gardens, backyards, balconies and shared ...

While walking through the forest, I heard a constant high-pitched song echoing among the trees. Following the sound, I discovered this tiny bird singing its heart out on a branch—a perfect reminder ...

A project is underway to sequence the genome of five separate Rufous scrub-bird colonies. Fewer than 2,000 of the songbirds remain, with bushfire posing the main threat to their existence. A tiny ...

The death of Rob Hirst from pancreatic cancer at the age of 70 is the close of a long and, in many ways, surprising career.

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Paul Kelly will headline the 2026 Red Hot Summer Tour, with Missy Higgins, The Cruel Sea, The Cat Empire, Kasey Chambers and Jess Hitchcock joining the all Australian line up.

Hirst had other irons in the fire as early as 1991 when he formed Ghostwriters with Rick Grossman. Perhaps the band’s name ...