Grey-headed flying foxes sleep and socialise during the day but are often well aware of approaching humans. Credit: Adam McKeown, CSIRO Flying foxes, or fruit bats, are familiar to many Australians.

What do you get when you combine the broad wings and big body of a raptor with a little curved beak on a small dove-like head? You get the gray-headed kite. The gray-headed kite (Leptodon cayanensis) ...

Flying foxes are a type of bat within the Chiroptera order of mammals. There are several different species and, unfortunately, two native Australian species have suffered sudden and dramatic losses ...

Researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP) have uncovered a chilling new threat to the endangered Grey-headed albatross—land-based deaths caused by strong winds. This alarming phenomenon was ...

Flying foxes, or fruit bats, are familiar to many Australians. So it may come as a surprise to learn two of the four mainland species, both gray-headed and spectacled flying foxes, are threatened with ...