Red goshawk numbers declining

Brandon Long
Updated August 23 2021 - 9:05am, first published August 22 2021 - 12:00pm
RARE FIND: University of Queensland PhD candidate Chris MacColl with the third live male red goshawk ever held. Photo: Supplied.
RARE FIND: University of Queensland PhD candidate Chris MacColl with the third live male red goshawk ever held. Photo: Supplied.

It was once found from Sydney to Cape York and across to the Kimberley, but in recent decades, Australia's rarest bird of prey the red goshawk appears to be declining in numbers.

Brandon Long

Brandon Long

Queensland Country Life journalist

Brandon Long is a Queensland Country Life journalist based in Toowoomba.

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