Australian Birdlife Magazine Autumn 2025

Learn more about our wonderful birdlife in the Autumn 2025 edition of Australian Birdlife.

In this issue:

• A Road Less Travelled Short-tailed Shearwaters undertake an immense migration each year from Australia up to the Bering Sea, but as John Peter explains, some birds are taking a different path.
• Once Were Giants Penguins as tall as humans, enormous eagles and ‘terror birds’—join Karen Hunt as she explores Australia’s fossil record and discovers a prehistoric continent where giants roamed.
• Cranespotting Billie Gill was one of the birders who ‘discovered’ the Sarus Crane in 1966—learn more about her contribution to Australian ornithology in this tribute by Russell McGregor and Jean Ffrench.
• Lost and Found One night in the Conandale Range in 1976, Greg Roberts heard a peculiar call—and inadvertently rediscovered the Plumed Frogmouth.