— Birdlife Australia

In the September issue of Australian Birdlife, we celebrate the Great Knot Food Drop – one of the largest and most ambitious conservation achievements the world has ever seen. Jenny Lau shines the spotlight on the Grey Range Thick-billed Grasswren of north-western NSW – long thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in 2008 – but now facing a grave new threat from a proposed gold mine, and John Peter uncovers the unexpected links between warming oceans in the Northern Hemisphere and a new peril affecting Hooded Plovers on Australian beaches. All this plus more of the very best in nature writing and photography from Australia and around the world