Australian Birdlife Magazine Summer 2025

The Red Goshawk has vanished from most of its eastern range in the last few decades, and the Red Goshawk team wants to know why. With satellite tracking, aerial surveillance and valuable partnerships with Indigenous Rangers, researchers are piecing together the puzzle of the Red Goshawk. By Jessica Rooke

Also in this issue:

• Still on the Edge After a century of silence, the powerful song of the Djimaalap (Noisy Scrub-bird) is returning to West Cape Howe with a trial translocation of three male birds. Sarah Comer, Allan Burbidge, Abby Berryman, Abby Martin (DBCA) and Aline Gibson Vega (Birdlife Australia) report.
• Birdlife Australia Photography Awards The winners unveiled—see the incredible images that won each category of our 8th annual Photography Awards.
• Crown of Tawns After three consecutive polls coming in second, the Tawny Frogmouth is finally victorious in the BirdLife Australia/Guardian Bird of the Year poll. Sean Dooley reflects on the poll that stops a nation.