So hard to read; both for Madagascar, a country I came to know well in the 1990s, & for Australia just as politicians battle furiously over any potential improvement to nature protection laws. Species & numbers details via the IUCN Red List: www.iucnredlist.org/search #EPBC #ExtinctionMatters

Birdsong is not only beautiful, it’s also full of information. This is where Acoustic Monitoring comes in. Will you support the development of this new and important work? Find out more and donate today ➡️ www.bto.org/acoustic... #bioacoustics #ornithology

NUMBER 3 WEDGE-TAILED EAGLE (Tasmanian *obviously* 😆)

In Hobart this Sunday? Your ears are very much needed for this special BITTERN QUEST! Help check CallTrackers' haunting recordings from around Tasmania—tentatively identified as likely the 'boom' of an Endangered Australasian bittern—in order to... #nationalscienceweek #citizenscience #bioacoustics

The Field Guide to the Insects of Tasmania now offers yet another fantastic tool… #Tasmania #insects #nature #TakeACloserLook

#NatureTrackers' big #news! 🧵 with @btobirds.bsky.social #bioacoustics #acoustics #citizenscience #CallTrackers #Tasmania #conservation #science #conservationscience #wildlife #monitoring #nationalscienceweek #STEM #ornithology #birds #curlew #threatenedspecies #biodiversity #nature 🌏🧪🦇🪶🦉🌿🎙️

If you contribute to CallTrackers' annual surveys for #Tasmania 's 'noisy but elusive' species (like bats & the Endangered Australasian bittern)—you get to use @btobirds.bsky.social's Acoustic Pipeline software. Increasingly accurately, this can flag likely calls of these species... #citsci 🧪🌏🪶🌿🦇🎙️

Learn all about it for #NationalScienceWeek! Every Sept-March, you can help monitor wildlife across #Tasmania & learn more about your more elusive neighbours, by borrowing #CallTrackers’ state-of-the-art recorders from various libraries. Find out more in a workshop: naturetrackers.au/news/spring-...

Tasmanians! Getting into the massive #NationalScienceWeek buzz? Maybe you've already booked into a 'Discover CallTrackers' acoustic monitoring workshop, or 'Bittern Quest'? Details in #NatureTrackers' calendar—see August: naturetrackers.au/about/events... But ALSO... #CitSci #STEM #Tasmania 🧪🌏🌿🎙️🪶🦇

It's a difficult concept & a *nightmare* choice (& I want more invertebrates) but still - let's give more fab species a big boost! Vote! Vote! Vote!

Step 1: find out who’s living there *before* you bust up its habitat! Eg 5 threatened burrowing crayfish burrow only in small areas of land in #Tasmania, often vulnerable to compaction & destruction eg by cattle & housebuilding www.threatenedspecieslink.tas.gov.au/Pages/Result... #extinctionmatters

Affected predators include Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles (details: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) These poisons are widely for sale at eye-level in Australian hardware stores; much more carefully regulated elsewhere. Advice & action here: www.actforbirds.org/ratpoison #Tasmania

new 🦇 print 📸 i've been having an Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis) come by right at sunset the last few nights and making some very fun echolocation & social calls 😍 along with the usual crew of big browns (dm if interested in prints) 🍃🔊

#Tasmania #conservation #dogs - what a combo! Scientist, conservation dog handler, & fabulous communicator Nic Gill is speaking in Hobart this Thurs. Find out more about her here nicole-gill.com/about/

Many of Australia’s invertebrates, which include insects and other animals without backbones, are doing it tough. You can help by taking simple actions, like planting local native flowers, leaving part of your garden ‘wild’, or switching off outdoor lights 🐝 #invertebrates #insects

Nearly home - about to hop on the overnight ferry as the next leg of my #FlightFree #BirdNerdRoadie trip from #ICCB2025 in Meanjin/Brisbane to Tasmania, & farewelled by a beautiful black-shouldered kite… 🪶 (almost never seen in TAS)

A fascinating set of publications, including these findings from an app rather like eBird for night-time lights. #CitSci #DarkSkies #SaveEnergy #Conservationscience 🌏🧪

Waiting at Brisbane Roma St Station to start the first leg of my #NatureNerdRoadie trip home to Tasmania, & realising I’ve never wondered how long-billed birds drink out of shallow puddles… #WildOz 🌿🪶

More details on the power line risk model for Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles - how it was created, & how it’s used. #Tasmania #wedgetailedeagle #conservationscience 🌏🦅🪶🌿🧪

Exciting news in the world of #Tasmanian #WedgeTailedEagle conservation! #Tasmania #conservationscience 🌏🦅🪶🌿🧪

They were all #ICCB2025 *fantastic*. The context of #conservationscience can be a bit 😳 but each scientist had us laughing, & following along with all the science AND maths 👏👏

Such a beautiful welcome to Turrbal country from song woman Butinga and Aunty Cathryn. Welcoming us to #ICCB2025 with first nations representatives responding in song, and delegates from 90 countries embracing the smoke, the welcome, the deep connection with Country

A plenary of huge encouragement to get the #ICCB2025 conference started from Queensland Chief Scientist & QUT Professor Kerrie Wilson. #conservationscience 🌏

It’s so great to arrive in the Brisbane sunshine. I’m looking forward to the start of #ICCB2025! *Please* come on Monday pm to discuss #citizenscience approaches to population monitoring. We have a range, for different contexts - including extras which wouldn’t easily fit on the poster…

Departed Hobart for my next #naturenerdroadie trip yesterday - excited to be on my way to the #ICCB2025 in Brisbane. Great sunrise/full moon as I walked from the ferry to N Geelong station this morning!

this is all a bit exhausting. luckily (helpfully(?)) today is June 12. so it's all worth it. thank you @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social.

Chasing up the last few #WhereWhereWedgie records & reminiscing over some good survey days, eg these views of battling Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles at the start of one of my 10-minute scans. (After landing out of sight, both eventually flew off in opposite directions). #Tasmania #citizenscience 🌿🪶

#WhereWhereWedgie 🦅 surveys near Hamilton today - - 6 (!!) x wedge-tailed eagles - 1 x white-bellied sea-eagle - 1 x brown falcon - 200 cockatoos!! An excellent day for science! @catmyoung.bsky.social @clawkins.bsky.social #citizenscience 🌿🪶🧪 #Tasmania #conservationscience

Final day of #WhereWhere?Wedgie surveys today! 48 teams are heading out. Follow everyone’s progress as it unfolds on the Results Map… webapp.naturetrackers.com.au/map_results 📷 from a wet morning’s survey yesterday - Michael Dempsey #citizenscience 🌿🪶🧪 #Tasmania #conservationscience

Final deadline today! We're about to take off!! In #Tasmania? See naturetrackers.au/projects/whe... for what the surveys involve; then the #WhereWhereWedgie booking map – can you turn a yellow square (booked for 1 day) to orange (booked to the desired 2)? 📷 Peter Allen #Conservationscience 🌏🪶🧪🌿

Look it's me doing eagle surveys! Book your square for next weekends surveys before Wednesday! It's a great day out in Tasmania and helps inform eagle conservation. naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...

Thank you @faunatech-au.bsky.social ! #conservationscience #citsci #acoustic 🦇🦉🎙️🧪🌏🌿

In #Tasmania? Today's the BEST day to discover Where? Where? Wedgie! April is #CitizenScienceMonth *&* #EarthMonth, and today is #CitizenScienceDay!! So it really could not be a better day to get into #citizenscience, & the perfect project is just coming up 😁 naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...

Forest loss rates in designated 'Swift Parrot Important Breeding Areas' doubled since forestry policy change in 2014. Swift parrots were listed as Critically Endangered in 2015. (link to paper below) #ExtinctionMatters #Conservation #Environment #EPBC 🧪🪶🌏🌿

"A mouse being fired out of a cannon..." 🌿🪶 #Tasmania #Swifties #ThreatenedSpecies #ExtinctionMatters

1/ 🧵Bird songs and calls are an important way that people experience the natural world. They’re also one of the key means of surveying bird populations. In this #BOU2025 talk I will review @btobirds.bsky.social research to explore opportunities and challenges of #bioacoustics in #ornithology

Handy practice for #WhereWhereWedgie!

What is a citizen scientist? Subconscious feelings that we aren't one abound ("I'm a pro";"I'm not a scientist"). But how about 'A potential, amateur, or professional scientist, often learning from & collaborating with others, volunteering their time to conduct scientific work'? #CitizenScience 🌏🧪🪶🌿

Invertebrate of the year!! How to choose out of the 1.3M described species?? ‘Nominations closed. Voting opens soon’. Hoping a Tasmanian burrowing crayfish gets a guernsey… #ClawsOnTheLine

There’s some really exciting work happening in #AI and #conservation. Do you use data from cameras, acoustics, drones or satellites to understand biodiversity? The Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack might be for you! Point me to your research to be added 🧪🌏 go.bsky.app/eFMQQX

Re-skeeting to share more #citizenscience...

A lovely, gentle, engaging approach to nudging people’s assumptions. I ended up watching the whole lecture youtu.be/UG6Ier4UC_8 View it if you’ve ever questioned the significance of #internationalwomensday - or know someone who might, or would just like to watch an entertaining talk…

Shifting Baseline Syndrome is a human quirk preventing us from noticing gradual population declines, & one of many reasons that long term species monitoring is a good idea! This #WorldWildlifeDay - consider getting involved with #citizenscience to address this - eg in #Tasmania: naturetrackers.au

Lovely video of a young brown goshawk to help people get their eyes in for this May’s annual #WhereWhereWedgie raptor surveys across Tasmania… 🌿🪶 naturetrackers.au 🧪🌏 #citizenscience #Tasmania #raptors #WildOz #birds

A few spots left for this #CallTrackers acoustic monitoring workshop by the Mersey Estuary in #Tasmania! This Thurs 27th Feb, 4-6 pm. Learn how to set a recorder up, & how this can help conserve noisy, elusive species & support some exciting restoration work... events.humanitix.com/calltrackers...

Birds. Just taking a moment to be grateful for birds. And dips. Everyone loves dips. Dips and birds. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They’re in their own phylum; they’re skilled predators with complex brains; some are social; some protect their eggs & young, which may also be live-born; & they’re *cool* movers! Velvet worms (Onychophora): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychop... #tasmania #velvetworm #wildoz

Biiiig news update on #WhereWhereWedgie! The latest survey results for the Endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle have been analysed - details in the link... 1/2 🧪🌏🪶🌿 #CitizenScience #Tasmania #wedgetailedeagle #nature #conservationscience #monitoring 📷 Stephen Mattingley, WWW24, Melaleuca