Australian Birdlife Magazine Winter 2025

Learn more about our wonderful birdlife in the Winter 2025 edition of Australian Birdlife, BirdLife Australia’s quarterly magazine.

In this issue:

• Day of the Bluey? 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.

• Getting into the Reeds Hidden among the rustling reeds lies a world of remarkable birds, each with clever and curious adaptations for life in this unique wetland habitat, as John Peter explains.

• The Long Way Round It’s just 142 kilometres from Gleesons Landing to Coffin Bay—so why did one Osprey take the long way round, flying nearly 1,800 kilometres? Ian Falkenberg unravels the mystery.

• Terning the Tide Meet Australia’s newest threatened bird, the Little Tern, and the people working to protect this fragile beach-nester.