In suburban Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) previously figured out how to break into garbage bins and ...

“This is a hybrid — a cross between a sulphur-crested cockatoo and a galah. I have seen these two to three times over the years, but always as aviary birds that paired and bred together,” he ...

H5N1 bird flu ... viruses and human flu viruses. If the animals are co-infected at the same time with two or more viruses, the viruses can swap genes, potentially creating a hybrid virus that ...