Bird photo of the year 2018: the joy of the fairy-wren
Joy in the Morning, a photo of a variegated fairy-wren taken in Yulara, Northern Territory, has won the people’s choice for the BirdLife Australia photography awards 2018. See the winner and all the finalists in the gallery below
April 2018
Australian cities week
Bin chickens: the grotesque glory of the urban ibis – in pictures
Corellas invade Australian suburb in their thousands – video
Michael Shiels, supervisor of the bird department at Taronga zoo says birds are an integral part of Australian life.
Shiels is unable to give a single answer to Guardian Australia's bird of the year poll, but believes all Australians love birds, even if they don't know it. The poll closes today at midnight
Feed the birds: stop the demonising and tell us how to do it properly
It’s maligned in Australia but if some simple rules are observed, bird feeding is a great way to connect with the wild world
Community
Share your best Australian bird pictures for bird of the year 2017
We’d like to see your best – or indeed most underwhelming – bird images of the year, whether or not the subject features on our shortlist
From Florence Broadhurst to Romance Was Born, Australian designers have long looked to birds for design inspiration
The brush turkey is an Aussie battler – and it needs your help
Alicia Burns
Brush turkeys are often the last holdouts against gentrification. But they still face peril in urban environments and researchers are enlisting citizen scientists to understand how they can better survive
'Are you kidding me?' Actors denounce the ibis in Australian bird of the year poll – video
There’s not a lot of love for the ibis on the red carpet of the 2017 Aacta awards
November 2017
Land of the birds: why Australia has the world's greatest diversity of avian life
Why first-past-the-post voting favours the ibis (and Donald Trump)
About 29 results for Australian Bird of the Year (2017)