The rainbow lorikeet looks less like a bird and more like a living, breathing color palette. It has an electric blue head, a fiery orange chest, neon green wings, and a bright red beak to tie it all ...

Authorities are investigating an environmentally threatening species of parrot, following sightings in West Auckland. The Department of Conservation (DOC) said it and the Ministry for Primary ...

A mystery paralysis syndrome is afflicting lorikeet populations in south-east Queensland and northern NSW at a rate scientists say they have never seen Dr Tim Portas pulls the patient from a cardboard ...

Think you know everything about our kaleidoscopic lorikeets? Think again. These birds are full of surprises. Loud and belligerent, rainbow lorikeets are the soundtrack of urban Australia. They live so ...

A study into meat-eating rainbow lorikeets has shown the phenomenon occurs Australia-wide among captive and wild birds, confounding experts. Last year, the ABC reported that rainbow lorikeets were ...

Hundreds of birds are falling from the sky in northern New South Wales and researchers cannot pinpoint why. In the past week, more than 200 paralysed rainbow lorikeets have been taken into care around ...

In the 1980s, there were no rainbow lorikeets in Canberra; now they’re one of the city’s most-sighted birds. But they’re not the only successful urban adaptor My bird-watching friend Simon is telling ...

Hundreds of rainbow lorikeets have fallen from the sky in this Aussie town in the past week, paralysed by a mystery illness that has scientists worried. More than 200 paralysed birds were taken into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) drinking at Randers Regnskov Zoo, Denmark.© Mats Lindh / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons ...

Think you know everything about our kaleidoscopic lorikeets? Think again. These birds are full of surprises. Loud and belligerent, rainbow lorikeets are the soundtrack of urban Australia. They live so ...