The 7-acre Cypress Wetlands in Port Royal is bird bonanza in the spring. All sorts of species congregate to nest with white ibis and great and snowy egrets tending to dominate the color palette.

THE much anticipated 2017 Australian Bird of the Year results are in and shockingly, the magpie has taken out the top spot ousting the early favourite the white ibis — aka the bin chicken.

The eastern population of northern bald ibises (Geronticus eremita) has likely fallen to a single breeding bird, reports conservationists monitoring the dwindling flock. The population had ...

The distinctive northern bald ibis bird has been brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to some novel techniques, namely scientists flying alongside them in light aircraft. The birds - known ...