"The Red Goshawk has all the equipment for survival: great speed, manoeuvrability, enormous talons, and physical courage in attack. It should be a very successful bird. It is, instead, disappearing"

Watch this fun 3 minute skit our fearless leader James Watson shot for the ABC program Behind The News discussing the Threatened Species app abc.net.au/btn/classroom/…

Two very happy fellows who have just found their second #RedGoshawk nest in three days! For context, I didn't find one in the first 3 years of my PhD!

New paper out by RARES scientist Patrick Webster explaining why his study species the Buff-breasted Button-quail hasnt been reliably seen for 100 years!! #BuffbreastedButtonquail tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

New paper out by the RARES team! Critically important work to better manage the threat of feral cat predation on one of Australia's most endangered birds, the Night Parrot #conservation #threatenedspecies #nightparrot publish.csiro.au/WR/WR21123

Tireless field work by Pat Webster finds Painted Button-quail are actually distributed throughout southern and central Cape York.... at least! See article here - birdlife.org.au/afo/index.php/…

Thanks to the persistence of RARES researcher Patrick Webster, we are happy (though actually sad) to report that the Queensland Government has now accepted our submission for the conservation status of the Buff-breasted Button-quail to be uplisted to Critically Endangered.

Please read these important, though startling, results from Chris MacColl comprehensive population assessment of the Red Goshawk, Australia's rarest raptor #threatenedspecies #conservation #WildOz #Australianbirds #Extinction #raptorresearch

Have you seen The Red? Australia's red goshawk once ruled the skies. But now this almighty raptor has become our nation's rarest bird of prey. @cmaccoll UQ Science writes The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand about the first comprehensive population assessment. theconversation.com/australias-red…

More important work by RARES scientists, this time by the indefatigable Nick Leseberg- Establishing effective conservation management strategies for a poorly known endangered species: a case study using Australia’s Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Finding the elusive buff-breasted button-quail relies on essential museum archives #australianbirds #threatenedspecies #conservation abc.net.au/news/2023-08-2…

Uncomfortable truths about black throated finch conservation from April Reside 🦇 at #AOC2023

Buttonquail time! Patrick Webster from RARES Group on the buff-breasted button-quail… the only Aussie bird never photographed and with (currently) no known population. 🤔

How can we avoid misclassification mistakes for rare birds? Nick Leseberg w/ the RARES Group AOC2023 #wildoz

Great talk by Nigel Jackett on the elusive Northern Masked Owl. Stunning slide showing all of Australia’s masked owls together. #AOC2023