Contrary to their pretty name and appearance, some Australian superb fairy-wrens can be "aggressive" in the wild—which may be important for their survival. When it comes to nest defense or territory ...

Superb fairy-wrens are facing "imminent danger," and a well-studied population in Canberra could go extinct in the next 30 years if we don't urgently curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to an ...

You may have never seen a Fairy-Wren before, because they're native to Australia. These tiny little birds are basically little living disco balls with feathers. During mating season, the male superb ...

The superb fairy-wren is likely to become extinct in the next 30-40 years, according to new research based on a study conducted in Canberra. The research, published in the science publication Nature, ...

Can superb fairy-wrens learn to respond to brood-parasitic cuckoos by simply watching other fairy-wrens react to a cuckoo? That’s the question posed in a new Biology Letters study by myself and Naomi ...

Multilevel societies are among the most complex societies known in nature. They are organised like Russian nesting dolls – individuals belong to family groups, which belong to clans, which belong to ...

Individual superb fairy-wrens help their families and friends before helping strangers, suggesting these songbirds recognize which social tier individual birds belong to A pair of adult superb ...