We found a turtle today!

Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍

Gorgeous little superb parrot kicking off their month of nest checks 💚

Look at the outside epiphyllum!!

My epiphyllum is STILL flowering after a month - and the outside one is about to start 💚

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

Look at this adorable regent parrot fuzzball 😭😭😭💚💚💚

After a very quiet six months, we’ve had some terrific sightings roll in the last few days: near Ipswich, QLD, at Shoalhaven Heads & near Taree, NSW. Congrats to everyone on their finds & huge thanks for making sure we don’t miss any records. Keep the them coming! paintedsnipe.com.au/recent-sight...

Baby regent parrot 💚

Look at this cactus on our porch - no idea what it is but it’s very drama

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Will the new environment bill, you know...actually protect the environment? @adammorton.bsky.social looks at the evidence, but I suspect you know the answer....

One postmortem shows one of the koalas had a joey when she was translocated. The joey was found dead in her pouch during a health check after the first koala deaths in April but the adult female was re-released. She was found on the ground in the forest in late May and died on the way to the vet.

FFS tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/cement-...

Eight of the 13 koalas moved in March died – one more than the government originally claimed Some were left in the forest for six weeks after the first deaths. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Gorgeous male regent parrot making a fuss at his nest hollow 🥲

It’s me in my farmer outfit and a regent parrot 😂

Banding owls really is a spiritual experience. The woods are dark and quiet save for the rhythmic “toot, toot, toot” of the audio lure. They seem vacant. Suddenly, a tiny nocturnal spirit drops in to bless you with its brief presence. Then it’s off, likely never to be seen again.

End of a very intense but very successful regent parrot field trip - gorgeous birds doing it a bit tough

Very cute video of a regent parrot chick being put back in their hollow tree nest - the little scoot down the mouth of the hole kills me every time

Look at how greenly gorgeous this little regent parrot is💚💚💚

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

This week we’ve been monitoring regent parrot breeding- look at this little cutie 😭🩵😇

I still haven't shared all my photos from Boolcoomatta. Here are some more yellow-footed rock-wallabies. Can you see the baby in the pouch? 🧡

Look at the incredible beast we saw today! Malleefowl are so fantastic

New owl who dis (Northern Saw-whet Owl)

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Sad to report that we've lost another #kakapo, and a particularly significant one. Solstice was the last kākāpō rediscovered, found on Rakiura in 1997. She died on the weekend as a result of complications from the #disease cloacitis. There are now 237 kākāpō left. #conservation #parrots #birds

Bird folks. You have just one day left for earlybird registration for the Australasian Ornithology Conference in Perth in just 50 days time! Get in fast because I’m pleased to say it has been so popular that we will be closing registration soon. aoc.org.au/registration/

I went away for 4 days and my chickens were busy with spring

Everyone loves Bird of the Year! And it's bgrk! (chicken noise) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

EMU EGG!

Gorgeous flock of emus wandered up to look at us today - such magnificent birds!

Lovely day on the Murrumbidgee

Look at this adorable regent parrot hatchling - it hatched this morning and is just hours old 🥰🥰🥰🥰🐣🐣🐣🐣🦜

Regent parrot in her nest along the Murray River 💚

Setting up regent parrot nest monitoring on the Murray this afternoon- gorgeous place and big trees

Check out this regent parrot who can barely fit in her own nest - this huge old red gum has a 5cm wide slit that’s been a nest for a couple years now. squeeze == safe

Superb parrot eating weeds 🥰

Spring is here - king parrots love a garden 💚

Came up okay for a proof print. Might need to book a press next week.

We'll be ready to work with interim leadership from Day 1 to end Renew ANU and stop *all* forced redundancies. This is only possible with new leadership. @nteunion.bsky.social - and everyone else - knows that the farce at #ANU has gone on for far too long.

It’s the start of regent parrot breeding season and in just a few weeks the eggs will hatch into these adorable yellow fuzz balls

Zebra finches from my last trip to Boolcoomatta.

Gang-gang cockatoos have the most gorgeous baby faces 😍

Above and belowground effects of buffelgrass invasion in the Sonoran Desert: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It’s that time of year when the regent parrots are gathering in their nesting sites, bickering over hollows and choosing their nests 😍

Beautiful superb parrot feeding on lerps - keeps taste pretty nice and birds love the sugar hit

Neat new study out by my ex PhD and current postdoc Daniel on Green parrots nest protection!