Today I met a puppy, had a FaceTime with Gigi and my violet opened- on balance a good day

Here is the spoken cartoon version of my tribute to Jon Kudelka www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cv9...

we said goodbye to jon @kudelka.bsky.social today. if you couldn’t be there or watch the livestream - it was a heartbreakingly beautiful celebration of a truly wonderful man. i loved hearing so many stories about him from so many people who loved him. how lucky we all were to know him ♥️

The funeral for Jon Kudelka was both beautiful and deeply sad - he loved our difficult birds and was a staunch protector of Tasmanian nature - he will be missed and is a tragically gone too soon 💙

The first #kakapo chick for four years hatched two days ago (on Valentine’s Day for those who like to anthropomorphise!). Here’s Tiwhiri-A1-2026 in Yasmine’s nest. 📸: Deidre Vercoe. www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots #birds

The utter sham of offsets, yet again... “Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Putting a superb parrot chick back into their nest - look at that gorgeous tree hollow!

It’s officially a wrap on the most wildly busy field season of my career - this gang gang is giving an insight into the team vibe right now

My house is full of Jon Kudelka art - lots of happy sad memories of a really top notch bloke

i can’t help but think how much he would hate all the fuss but guess what you grumpy bastard you are so incredibly loved by so many people. rest in power jon ♥️ www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Vale Jon Kudelka @kudelka.bsky.social and deepest condolences to family and friends We were honoured to have Jon draw 3 cartoons for a series of articles we published on political donations reform in Tasmania #auspol #politas Thank you Jon

Vale @kudelka.bsky.social - gone too soon

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

We got to face time my little niece and I got to meet her mates ❤️

Female #kakapo Phoenix on her nest yesterday, with three eggs. We suspect they're infertile, but it's hard to tell yet as they're either very dirty or young. She's one of at least 24 female kākāpō on nests on Anchor Island, with 3 more nests found today! #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

If I didn’t have photos you probably wouldn’t actually believe this is how gnarly baby gang gangs are 🥴❤️

I also love that you can see me in my dumb straw hat reflected in its eye 👀👀👀

Look at the gorgeous green red grey combo on this baby gang gang - such a beautifully unexpected mix of colours

You need a lot of confidence to rock a hairstyle like this 😆 A pink cockatoo at Kinchega National Park, New South Wales.

Female #kakapo Atareta on her nest on Anchor two days ago. She has at least two eggs, which we'll "candle" to determine fertility in a few days' time, when the oldest is about 10 days old. The nest is huge, so it will be hard to access the eggs. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #parrots

One more beautiful firetail - so bloody gorgeous

Today I had the good fortune of meeting a few beautiful firetails and until now I far not fully appreciated their fantastic snoots

Also - when I got to the beach randomly there was an eel that had beached itself and was about to become gull dinner! It swam away after I pushed it back to the sea - very random

I had a lovely day in the southwest of Tasmania today - 36km walked and a whole lot of plant surveys 💚

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

How gorgeous are the colours on blue-winged parrots 😍

Grunge gang gang

Murray Watt’s licence to kill endangered species in Tasmania www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Fistful of superb parrot

Doesn’t matter if it’s gang gangs or kakapo every baby parrot is a gangly weirdo

A new #kākāpō record: the youngest female to mate. Previously the youngest we'd recorded a female mating was just under 5 years old. Yesterday, Ongaonga (📸 as a chick) mated on Anchor, aged 3 years 10 months. It might be the first of many records broken in #kakapo2026. #conservation #birds

Many more #kakapo matings: WH: Pura + Gulliver, Nora + Tutoko, Tumeke + Gulliver Anchor: Kohengi + Tuterangi, JEM + Awhero, Phoenix + Jamieson, Ongaonga + Tuterangi, Galaxy + Ngatapa, Eva + Tamahou, Roha + Kokoto, Evohe + Henry Te Kākahu: Rimu + Jack Pic: Rimu #conservation #parrots

Three #kakapo nests found on Anchor Island today! Here’s Waikawa, on two eggs. #conservation #birds #parrots

Today’s scrappy little gang gang

Today’s gang gang cockatoo was a cutie 🥲

Honestly superb parrot baby faces are so bloody cute

Spiky gang gang cockatoo

A parasitic koel getting fed leftover polenta stolen from the chook scraps by a duped red wattle bird 🙃

Terrible video of an adorable blue-winged parrot nest 🥲

Published today in Biological Conservation, we introduce water into the land sparing versus sharing debate, develop novel water sharing policy options for conserving threatened species in the Murray-Darling, and ask people what they think about such amendments. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some nice things from our bushwalk

There’s really nowhere better than Tasmania

Dr Fernanda Alves @febiologia.bsky.social spoke to the ABC about a creative tool she has gifted to forty-spotted pardalotes to arm them against a deadly parasitic fly that is killing their nestlings. @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social

A handful of superb parrot babies 💚💚💚

Baby gang gang cockatoos have literally the silliest cutest faces

Here’s a closer look at the amazing prehistoric rufous scrub bird - ancient relatives to most song birds and related to lyrebirds, we are hoping that our breakthrough with capture techniques == new opportunities for conservation (1/2)

TLC are also working with Dr Fernanda Alves to help protect forty-spotted pardalotes by providing feather dispersers & specialised next boxes for our important feathered residents! Read the story at: abc.net.au/news/2026-01-04/forty-spotted-pardalote-bruny-island-endangered-species/106176110

our research on rufous scrub birds in the news! Such fantastic little birds 😍 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Check out the fascinating work that @febiologia.bsky.social is doing to protect forty-spotted pardalotes!! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...