Australian Bird of the Year 2025 - BirdLife Australia

Tawny Frogmouth is your Bird of the Year 2025

The Tawny Frogmouth is Australia’s 2025 Bird of the Year

Thursday, 16 October 2025 Birdlife Australia

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Our top picks from the Bird of the Year Top 10

Tuesday, 14 October 2025 Birdlife Australia

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Bird of the Year 2025: vote for the Baudin’s Black-Cockatoo

Team Baudin’s Black-Cockatoo! Birdlife Australia

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Gang-gang Cockatoos are monogamous, and pairs like this one mate for life. Photo by Pat Tomkins

Meet the Gang-gang: the bush’s most charming cockatoo

Saturday, 11 October 2025 Birdlife Australia

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The results are in: the Tawny Frogmouth is Bird of the Year 2025.

Following two weeks of eliminations and fierce competition, the Tawny Frogmouth has taken the top spot in Australia’s favourite bird poll.

Australia’s 2025 Bird of the Year the Tawny Frogmouth

Illustration: Pete Cromer/The Guardian

Pigeons and Topknots

What Bird is That? Crested Pigeons vs Topknot Pigeons

Wednesday, 17 September 2025 Birdlife Australia

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What Bird is That? Myna and Miner

Thursday, 18 September 2025 Birdlife Australia

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What Bird is That? Pigeons vs Doves

Tuesday, 16 September 2025 Birdlife Australia

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What Bird is That? Ravens and Crows

Friday, 26 September 2025 Birdlife Australia

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In this video, we’re learning all about little brown birds – Brown Thornbills and White-browed Scrubwrens – and the easiest ways to tell them apart when they're in you're out counting!

What bird is that? Little Brown Birds

Tuesday, 16 September 2025 Birdlife Australia

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What bird is that? Starlings vs Blackbirds

Friday, 26 September 2025 Birdlife Australia

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Red Goshawk in flight

Watch the magic of the Red Goshawk

Thursday, 9 October 2025 Birdlife Australia

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Powerful Owl

How Citizen Scientists Are Protecting Australia’s Powerful Owls

Friday, 10 October 2025 Birdlife Australia

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To the right of the frame, a black and gold Regent Honeyeater is perched upside, feeding on the pink and orange flowers of a grevillea against a leafy green background.

Bird of the Year 2025: vote for the Regent Honeyeater

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Powerful owl perched in a tree

Bird of the Year 2025: vote for the Powerful Owl

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Red Goshawk

Bird of the Year 2025: vote for the Red Goshawk

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To the left of the frame, a Critically Endangered Swift Parrot iwith colourful plumage is perched in a tree branch, facing to the right.

Your 2023 Bird of the Year

2023 Swift Parrot named Australian bird of the year Birdlife Australia

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To the right of the frame, a black and yellow Regent Honeyeater faces to the left with its back to us, against a blotched background..

BirdLife Australia’s Top 7 Bird of the Year Picks

Bird of the Year 2023 Birdlife Australia

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Swift Parrot

Lathamus discolor 2023 winner

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A male Superb Fairy-wren perched on a branch, looking right

Superb Fairy-wren

Malurus cyaneus 2021 winner

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Black-throated finch sitting on wire, facing and looking right

Black-throated Finch

Poephila cincta 2019 winner

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Close up of magpie, looking and facing left

Australian Magpie

Gymnorhina tibicen 2017 winner

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Create your own bird art with colouring sheets from Pete Cromer

Download one or many of the Guardian’s beautiful colouring sheets from artist Pete Cromer. Don’t forget to tag us if you’d like to show off your results on Instagram @guardianaustralia and @birdlifeoz.

Pelican floating on a lake

Australian Pelican

Pelecanus conspicillatus Waterbirds

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Baudin's Black-Cockatoo perched in a tree

Baudin’s Black-Cockatoo

Zanda baudinii Parrots, Survey species, Threatened species

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Little Friarbird sitting on plant with orange flowers, bird is facing toward the left with its head outstretched.

Little Friarbird

Philemon citreogularis Honeyeaters

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Orange-bellied parrot sitting on a branch facing forward, looking slightly off to the left. Green, blurred background

Orange-bellied Parrot

Neophema chrysogaster Parrots, Threatened species

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Female red-tailed black-cockatoo flying to the left, wings outstretched and tail fanned out. The background is blue sky

Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo

Calyptorhynchus banksii Hollow nesters, Survey species, Threatened species

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Pheasant coucal, a large bird, with mottled brown feathers on back and a darker brown neck. Almost hawk like. Bird sitting on branch, looking and facing left. Tail is long.

Pheasant Coucal

Centropus phasianinus Bush birds, Garden birds, Urban birds

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Powerful owl sitting on tree branch looking and facing forward, bright yellow eyes, with a stripey white and brown chest

Powerful Owl

Ninox strenua Birds of prey

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Yellow wattle bird, grey and white mottled body, with long draping watrles below eye, yellow belly. Bird is looking and facing left, sitting on branch

Yellow Wattlebird

Anthochaera paradoxa Honeyeaters

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A male Zebra Finch perches on a large dark grey branch. He is facing right, and is shaded on the belly. His orange beak and chestnut cheek are highly visible against the pale background.

Zebra Finch

Taeniopygia castanotis Bush birds

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