Over five years after cameras were set up within a sprawling Western Australian landscape, an elusive “chuditch” has been filmed for the first time. au.news.yahoo.com/camera-captu...

Talked to ABC country hour today about the big fire season in the NT through October. The chat became short but neat story about the last few weeks of action. The hottest October on record, nowhere near the biggest fire year but still pretty big. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

A rather gregarious Rainbow Pitta (Pitta iris) looking resplendent among the leaf litter at Binybara/Lee Point in Darwin. #WildOz

A northern rosella (Platycercus venustus) spotted during bird surveys at AWC's Wongalara Wildlife Sanctuary on Rembarrnga and Ngalakan Country. #WildOz

One of several buff-sided robins (Poecilodryas cerviniventris) which live around the homestead at AWC's Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary. These insectivorous birds are generally found in densely vegetated habitat by streams and rivers across much of northern Australia. #WildOz

Ghost bats (Macroderma gigas) are Australia's only bat species that feeds on large vertebrates. On a recent fieldwork trip to AWC's Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary, we visited one of their feeding caves where we found remains of owlet nightjars and rainbow bee-eaters caught by bats 😮. #WildOz

A jacky winter at Hattah-Kulkyne National Park.

A highlight of a recent fieldwork trip to AWC's Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary was seeing my first Gouldian Finches. We only got a brief look at a group of 6 on sanctuary (thrilling nonetheless) but then on the way back to Darwin we had ~130 of them visit our campsite in Limmen National Park. #WildOz

Another #spider for the end of #Arachtober 🕷️ Meet the incredibly handsome Banksia Peacock spider (Maratus mungaich). He’ll use those amazing colours on his abdomen to try and impress the lady spiders #ausinverts #wildoz #arachnids #inaturalist #nature

Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa

"Please may I have some hash brown?" A little friarbird interrupting my breakfast down at East Point in Darwin a little while ago.

Do people still use this app? Anyway, here's a pheasant coucal in the botanic gardens in Darwin. A truly stupendous bird. #WildOz

This morning I caught up with one of the Woylies we recently released outside the feral-predator free area at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary. It seems to be doing well two weeks post-release. 📍Badimia Country #WildOz ⚠️ Animal handled for monitoring purposes with required training and permits

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It's always a good day when you see a numbat ☺️ 📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country

Hovea chorizermifolia is always one of the first wildflowers to start on our block and heralds the start of flower season.

Yesterday I caught up with Arasari the Chuditch, who is doing well 8 months post-release at Mt Gibson. He came from the Taronga breeding program and was released as part of our reintroduction of quolls to the sanctuary. ⚠️ Handled for monitoring purposes with the appropriate training and permits ⚠️

Last week we conducted the first intentional releases of Woylies (Brush-tailed Bettongs) OUTSIDE our feral-predator free area at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary. I'm incredibly proud to have been a part of this project which has been years in the making. au.news.yahoo.com/aussie-resea...

🐝Why do 5 #Melbourne trams have a bee logo? Because back in 2008 during a patronage surge, the government leased 5 surplus trams from Mulhouse in France. They were shipped over and put into service in their original yellow livery, for which they were nicknamed “Bumblebees”.

With (in)appropriate animal handling in the news this week, I prepared these graphics to explain why and how me and my colleagues handle wildlife. 🧵 (1/5)

Nothing better than a box of quolls! Spent yesterday at one of the sanctuaries that make up the Tasmanian Quoll Conservation Program, helping conserve both eastern & spotted-tailed quolls in the wild @utas.edu.au @tasland.bsky.social

A tiny, bouncy Bilby friend 💚 Caught this morning as part of a monitoring survey at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary on Badimia Country. #WildOz

Early morning trapping surveys have their perks 😊

I'm going to restart my thread of posts using Badimia language from over on the other site. The words will primarily come from the Badimaya Dictionary published a few years ago.

The Badimia word for chicken is "dyugi" which is derived from the Australian-English "chook". (The 'dy' gets pronounced somewhat like the 'j' in 'jump')

A Dhudhun-dhudhun (Badimia for gecko) outside my front door. It's a Bynoe's Gecko (Heteronotia binoei), one of the most widespread gecko species on the continent. #WildOz

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending an introductory workshop for the Badimia Guwaga Language Project which aims to revitalise the critically endangered Badimia language. It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm in the community for keeping the language alive.

I'm a sucker for a good rocky outcrop. 📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country

I'm the subject of this month's "People of AWC" article. Click through to learn a little about me, my work and my background in conservation. www.australianwildlife.org/meet-the-peo...

Cold peas for hot weather.

Moulting: new skin, new you. Yellow-spotted monitor (Varanus panoptes) at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary on Badimia Country.

Cool, now the ABC is getting in on the act of whipping up hysteria & spreading misinformation. We can’t make it any clearer. *Wilkerr (dingoes) were kept under permit & contained at all times on private land.* There are no wild dingoes roaming the Little Desert. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Another view of this beauty the Chuditch, captured in a live capture cage trap on our property. This is why I don’t use lethal traps like the Goodnature trap which doesn’t discriminate against native wildlife.

Read more about our work here theconversation.com/lethal-secon...

OMG everyone!! You won’t believe what I just caught! After 9 years on our property, the holy grail animal that I thought we had no chance of seeing just entered my cage trap that I use for rats. Meet the Chuditch (Western Quoll). Released safe and unharmed this morning. I am still in shock.

Wait for the ears 😊 Releasing a Greater Bilby (Macrotis lagotis) back into the wild after we caught it as part of a monitoring survey earlier this week. 📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country #WildOz

Gimlet Gum textures. Eucalyptus salubris on Badimia Country.

God I love COCKATOOS. Raucous ass birds

This Woylie was very curious about what we were doing while out on a trapping survey last night. 📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country #WildOz

Did you know that #quolls go #grey too? Eastern quolls have gorgeous fluffy tails, & in the dark morph of the species, these can go grey as the quoll ages. This photo is of a 4-yr-old dark morph female quoll with a magnificent grey tail, recently trapped at our Silver Plains Reserve.

Had a little friend helping me set traps this afternoon 🐲 📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country #wildoz

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Ol' mate is an absolute menace at the chook house

Thinking about the fact that today felt like a cool day in my part of the world at just 28 degrees and yet a 28 degree day would be the hottest on record in the place I grew up. It's funny how our frames of reference can change.

Saw a cool spider today. Think it my be a Tailed Forest Spider (Argiope protensa). #wildoz

Most normal goanna behaviour #wildoz

Met this Lozenge-marked Dragon (Ctenophorus scutulatus) while out deploying camera traps today. #WildOz

#Quolls are one of those animals that almost never look good as #taxidermy (they're stunning in real life). This specimen at the Sorbonne also shows another bizarre trope: taxidermists typically hide animals' genitals, but in taxidermy #marsupials, they are nearly always made really prominent. 🤷‍♂️

Desert Tree Frog (Litoria rubella) at the Paynes Find Roadhouse 🐸

They don't call them Red-tailed Phascogales for nothing... (Handled by trained professionals as part of a monitoring survey with the appropriate animal ethics permits)