James Pay
@james-pay.bsky.social
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Research fellow at the University of Tasmania. Conservation and spatial ecology of threatened birds.
New Research! Unmasking the impact of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides on masked owls 🦉🐀🦉
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Unmasking the impact of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides on Masked owls (Tyto novaehollandiae castanops) in Tasmania
Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) are widely available in Australia for control of mammalian pests, without species distinction but particularly intended for rats and mice. Incre...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01584197.2025.2507301?src=#:~:text=We%20detected%20SGAR%20residues%20in,at%20necropsy%20for%20two%20birds
7 months ago
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New research! - Fine-scale spatial risk models to predict avian collisions with power lines 🦅
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Fine‐scale spatial risk models to predict avian collisions with power lines
Our study illustrates a framework for using bird movement data to provide insights into avian behaviour and the risk they encounter around power line infrastructure. Electricity delivery industries c....
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.70076
8 months ago
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UTAS researcher
@james-pay.bsky.social
and team from School of Natural Sceinces have analysed 6 years of eagle-worn GPS tracking data to develop a tool to map the risk of eagle and power line collisions. Data driven science that promotes both vital infrastructure and biodiversity conservation.
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Overhead power lines kill millions of birds a year. Scientists found a way to help cut the devastating toll
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Overhead power lines kill millions of birds a year. Scientists found a way to help cut the devastating toll
As electricity networks expand, the risk of birds becoming injured or electrocuted by power lines increases. How can we protect them?
https://theconversation.com/overhead-power-lines-kill-millions-of-birds-a-year-scientists-found-a-way-to-help-cut-the-devastating-toll-258295?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=bylineblueskybutton
8 months ago
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In Australia a large number of animals are shot to control populations. This can cause wedgies to be poisoned, as they come down for an easy lunch and end up eating toxic lead bullet fragments. Our research found lots of wedgies are being exposed to lead.
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about 4 years ago
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The piercing gaze of Astid the adult Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle 🦅
#endangered
#wedgetailedeagle
over 4 years ago
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Powerful owl deaths fuel concerns mouse poison is spreading through food chain
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Powerful owl deaths fuel concerns mouse poison is spreading through food chain
Native animals are already at risk from rodenticides but a NSW plan to use bromadiolone on farms has led to warnings the landscape could be ‘decimated’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/12/powerful-owl-deaths-fuel-concerns-mouse-poison-is-spreading-through-food-chain
over 4 years ago
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A little bundle of womble keeping us company in the field this cold morning 😍
almost 5 years ago
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This week elusive Tauriel joined our team of endangered Tasmanian
#wedgetailedeagle
data collectors. It just took us three weeks of field work... two flat tyres, and countless leech bites...
almost 5 years ago
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A young endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle showing off its blonde bouffant hairdo 🦅
#wedgetailedeagle
#fieldworkfriday
almost 5 years ago
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A family of endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles enjoying an evening snack. Dad on the left, mum in the middle, and this year's youngster on the right
#wedgetailedeagle
almost 5 years ago
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Young wedgie leaving one of our eagle buffets after having her fill 🦅
#wedgetailedeagle
almost 5 years ago
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Currently averaging more flat tyres than eagles during this field work...
#fieldworkfriday
almost 5 years ago
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Yesterday evening Maxie joined our team of Tasmanian
#wedgetailedeagle
data collectors. 🦅 🦅 She also projectiled a substantial amount of eagle poop all over me 💩
almost 5 years ago
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An endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle purposefully strutting to its lunch.
#pantaloons
#BirdsWithPants
#wedgetailedeagle
almost 5 years ago
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A couple of rainbows keeping me company on this looong rainy day sitting in a car waiting for eagles... 🦅🌈
#doublerainbow
almost 5 years ago
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As soon as the sun goes down, we have an assortment of nocturnal critters pilfering our wedge-tailed eagle food. Quolls have to be the cutest thieves! 🐾 🌛
#fieldwork
almost 5 years ago
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Bumped into this guy on the side of the road (luckily not literally!). Sadly lots of wedgies get hit on the road each year as they come down to feed on roadkill.
#wedgetailedeagle
almost 5 years ago
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Two endangered Tasmanian wedgies at one of our feeding stations this morning. Guarding their breakfast. 🦅#wedgetailedeagle
almost 5 years ago
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A pretty amazing sunset! Well done Tassie 😍 🌄
#tasmania
almost 5 years ago
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Elsie the Tasmanian
#wedgetailedeagle
has come back to life! 😍 🦅 Elsie disappeared early 2019 and we assumed she had died. She's just checked in and sent through her data. She's just been hanging out in the Tassie highlands with no signal for the last couple of years!
about 5 years ago
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New paper out in @SETAC_world High Frequency of Lead Exposure in the Population of an Endangered Australian Top Predator Turns out wedgies have a lot of lead in their lunch! Likely from bits of bullets. Free to read here ->
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about 5 years ago
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Can definitely attest to the biteyness! My left nipple will never be the same... 😓🦅 One more day to reach the crowdfunding target for "Where? Where? Wedgie!". Help us understand the Tassie wedge-tailed eagle population. Click here -
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Where? Where? Website! by Clare Hawkins
Making our website more accessible, so more people can help make a difference for our threatened species...The NatureTrackers programme coordinates volunteers and professional scientists to research & protect Tasmania's threatened species. Hundreds of people have now contributed surveys. Togethe
https://www.pozible.com/project/where-where-website/
about 5 years ago
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Wilfred the endangered Tasmanian
#wedgetailedeagle
showing off his feathery pantaloons!
#birdswithpants
over 5 years ago
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As lovely as Tasmanian devils are - I wish they would stop stealing all the eagle food! They are making field work a challenge!
over 5 years ago
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Got a text from Edward the
#wedgetailedeagle
this morning letting me know he hadn't moved for three days. After a 4 hour drive + hike to see if he's ok - all I find is a dead pademelon and a whole load of Edward's poop.. at least he was hanging out in a pretty part of Tassie
over 5 years ago
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Two very different ways to get on and off a Tasmanian island. Boated on at 7am, drove off (1.5 km nervously!) on low tide at 5pm.
#carsurvived
over 5 years ago
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Eugene the Tasmanian
#wedgetailedeagle
nestling sheltering under mum from some afternoon rain.
over 5 years ago
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This is definitely one of the more precariously positioned Tasmanian
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nests! Usually they nest in a large fork close to the main trunk. This one's defying the odds though! Still going strong since it was discovered in 2015.
over 5 years ago
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Checking Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle nests usually involves battling steep slopes and dense forest, so this is positively delightful! (... despite the army of leeches!)
#Tasmania
over 5 years ago
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Just a brown falcon (Falco berigora) casually strutting past one of our camera traps!
over 5 years ago
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Poor little fellas getting beaten up by their breakfast! 🦅🐟❤
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almost 6 years ago
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Making new non-eagle feathered friends for a change! The kea - the alpine parrot with a taste for car vandalism 🐦🌈 photo @elizabe57550075
about 6 years ago
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This Tasmanian
#wedgetailedeagle
nest shows all the telltale signs of being used this season: Fresh green foliage, white-wash (poo!) on surrounding branches, and a couple of ring-tail possums for dinner!
about 6 years ago
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Eagles vomit up all the indigestible parts of their food in a pellet. This pellet must have been particularly troublesome to regurgitate, it's full of echidna quills!
#pointyvomit
#wedgetailedeagle
#WildOz
over 6 years ago
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A couple of days ago Malu joined our team of GPS-tracked wedge-tailed eagles. He's the first territory-holding eagle to be tracked in Tasmania!
#wedgetailedeagle
#conservation
over 6 years ago
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As much as I love my study species, I wish I hadn't found a young
#wedgetailedeagle
chomping on the rooster I'm meant to be looking after this morning..
#housesittingmishaps
over 6 years ago
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Eugene sporting his rufter hood whilst we attach his GPS tracker. The leather headgear both keeps him calm and makes him look like a medieval superhero!
#Tasmania
#wedgetailedeagle
#endangered
#animalmovement
almost 7 years ago
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A friend in a Tasmanian greenhouse! After some brief research I think she belongs to the Abantiades?
almost 7 years ago
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Edwina nervously wondering how many school children she'll need to inspire about Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles once they start filling this room..
#WhereWhereWedgie
#scicomm
@nature_trackers
almost 7 years ago
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This
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nest cam photo of Eugene and his mum nibbling on either end of pademelon tail reminds me of something...
#ladyandthetramp
almost 7 years ago
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One of the biggest
#wedgetailedeagle
I've met. Her feet dwarf my (normal sized?) hands. Sadly she was hit by a car when scavenging road kill 😥
#Endangered
#bigfoot
#Tasmania
almost 7 years ago
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As part of our research we get the rare opportunity to experience the view from a
#wedgetailedeagle
nest. This was Edward's view (40 meters up a eucalypt!) overlooking a forest valley in northeast
#Tasmania
with some leftovers from lunch in the foreground
#roomwithaview
#wildoz
almost 7 years ago
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Not sure how Eugene's neck is going to feel in the morning!
#wedgetailedeagle
#Tasmania
#wildoz
#weirdsleepingpositions
almost 7 years ago
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This is so heartwarming. I didn't know storks had such impressive catching skills!
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almost 7 years ago
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One of the only photos I've managed to get of a GPS tracked Tasmanian
#wedgetailedeagle
. Even though he hatched 16 months ago, Ernie hasn't worked up the courage to leave his parents' territory on
#mariaisland
yet... makes it easier to track him down!
#Tasmania
#ornithology
almost 7 years ago
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Sad news today. One of the most productive Tasmanian
#wedgetailedeagle
nests has fallen. A chick has been raised there every year for the last 7 years (including Ethan last year), which is very rare. Fingers crossed they find a new site nearby with a stronger supporting branch!
almost 7 years ago
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Finding an echidna pelt 5 meters up a tree is a good sign there are eagles around!
#Tasmania
#wedgetailedeagle
#WildOz
about 7 years ago
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Unsciencing Eggbert the eight week old Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle
#UnscienceAnAnimal
about 7 years ago
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Go wedgie!
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about 7 years ago
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