Today I met an Australian magpie in Newcastle NSW which had learned to sing the calls of fire-engines and ambulances,” Andrews wrote along with the video, which now has over 2,800 shares.

Australian birds have weaponized fire because what we really need now is something else to make us afraid Raptors, including the whistling kite, are intentionally spreading grass fires in northern ...

World Wildlife Fund Australia: This chapter of the international wildlife conservation organization is accepting donations to care for injured wildlife and, when the fires clear, to plant 10,000 ...

More than 1 billion birds, reptiles and mammals may have been killed by the fires sweeping across Australia, according to a new estimate from the University of Sydney.

Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia’s devastating bushfires – almost triple the figure estimated in January – according to a report released Tuesday.

Australia is no exception to this rule. From 1997 to 2011, some 18 percent of Australia’s 730,000 square miles of savanna were affected by fire each year, on average.

In Australia, fire-stealing raptors grab smoldering twigs and use them to start new fires, ... Australian Birds Steal Fire to Smoke Out Prey. News. By Mindy Weisberger published 9 January 2018 ...

From 2011 to 2017, the team carried out research in Australia’s Northern Territory, where they interviewed aboriginal people who have observed avian fire-spreading.

On Jan. 5, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported thousands of farm animals burned in the fires had been euthanized, and the country was racing to bury "hundreds of thousands" of ...

Birds, specifically several species of raptor in Australia, can and do apparently start–or at least restart–fires intentionally. They’re known colloquially as the “firehawks.” ...

More than 1 billion birds, reptiles and mammals may have been killed by the fires sweeping across Australian, according to a new estimate from the University of Sydney.

Nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced by Australia’s devastating bushfires – almost triple the figure estimated in January – according to a report released Tuesday.