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 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 ...

More than 200 parrots fell from the sky over the past week, leaving scientists mystified. The rainbow lorikeets dropped from the heavens above New South Wales in Australia, after which the fallen ...

Like hummingbirds, Australian rainbow lorikeets eat pollen and nectar. In fact, they have a specialized tongue that allows them to do so. So imagine the surprise of bird experts after discovering of a ...

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has temporarily closed one of its aviaries after a West Nile virus outbreak infected and killed 10 of its lorikeets and put 12 more of the birds in its animal health ...

The behaviour of a population of rainbow lorikeets who frequent a backyard feeding station on a property north of Brisbane has left bird experts baffled. The lorikeets are eating meat and Griffith ...

Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) graduate student and zookeeper Angela Ignarski of Orland Park, Illinois, was published in Animal Keepers' Forum, a publication of the American Association of Zoo Keepers ...

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 ...

It turns out that in the lead-up to the silly season, humans aren't the only species getting drunk on holiday spirit. Rainbow lorikeets in Adelaide's Botanic Garden have been wreaking havoc after ...