Oh FFS. We are culling the wrong species.

Wow, we lost billions of Native Animals during 2019/20 fires & after, due to habitat loss, & since then at least 1.5Mil per year on average are killed, because they're in somebody's way? #Criminal @wildlife-rescue.bsky.social is well worth a follow. They can use all the help they can get. #auspol

Unconscionable. Australia has so many wonderful and unique critters, it just breaks my heart that so many are in trouble -- and because of humans. 💔

in spite of the fact that Australia has one of the highest extinction rates globally, >4.5Million of our Native Wildlife have been legally killed from 2021-23. #Wildoz #AusWildlife #AustralianWildlife #ozbirds #ausmammals License to Kill Report: hsi.org.au/wp-content/u... hsi.org.au/blog/licence...

Powerful Owlet sleeping and damp in the Brisbane rain this morning. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Mammals that lay eggs exist. Mind = blown. #monotremes

Mind if I drop in. A pair of Galahs playing about. #ausbirds #birds

Forrest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo. Been working on this image for a while. I hope it captures the personality of the cockatoo? These birds are fun to photograph they love to chew! Chewing helps sharpen their beaks makes a huge mess on the ground when they decide to do some “pruning” #ausbirds #birds

Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua) fledgling assumes a regal pose so befitting of one of the great owl species. From back in August 2021 at St Lucia, Brisbane #birds #wildoz #nature #wildlife #AustralianBirds #photography

Whistling Kite flying over Murchison Station in the midwest of Western Australia. #ausbirds #birds

show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie 🎥 Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary 🪶

Trillian, the very Powerful Owlet stretching her wings.

They're magnificent looking owls. We don't have anything quite that stunning in Australia but plenty of cute owls. The powerful owl lives up to its name though. Probably the most feared are these fellas👇=Humble Magpie. They're notorious dive bombers. Very intelligent & fearsome

One of my favourites from recent birding in South #Australia: this superb Australian Owlet-nightjar found on the Yorke Peninsula last weekend. What a bird! #birds #birdwatching #ornithology #addBirder #birder #birdphotography #aves #ausbirds #ausbirding #australianbirds #australianbirding #ausbirder

Impressive photo. I recently took a call from a farmer, re: Wedgetail downed by winds in Vic w/injured wing. Local vet advised him to bring it to the surgery but he wasn't game to go near it, so he called us. Found a raptor expert nearby. Farmer happy, Wedgetail in good hands. Happy ending #Wildoz

Pole position. A magnificent wedge-tailed eagle making a precision landing on a farm fencepost near Marree. 🪶 #birds

A controversial proposition that Conservationists might have concerns about. Captive breeding to boost dwindling populations & reintroduce captive-born individuals back to the wild is vastly different to keeping endangered wildlife as pets #wildoz #auswildlife theconversation.com/could-keepin...

There's one in every crowd. Galahs near Balaklava, South Australia. Another photo from my back catalogue. #birds

Imagine disliking birds while these guys are just sitting on a branch, huddled up together like this 🥹? 📸Rainbow Bee-eaters by Gary Meredith #birds #birdlifeaustralia #birdlifeoz #nature #wildlife #conservation #rainbowbeeeater #australia

Yay…finished the cockatiel today! 👊☺️pastel pencils on Pastlemat. #drawing #art #artist #blueskyart

Sydney Rainbow Lorikeets .. The Colours of the Rainbow. The chicks are so cute with the little black beak. 🌈🦜🌈 #RBLorikeets #Birds

A wedge-tailed eagle near Woomera. 🪶 #birds

You mean this doesn't strike terror into your heart? 😱😂 #WildOz

Water Dragon hanging out to dry after the showers in Brisbane this morning. #brisbane #wildoz #herps

Regent Bowerbird at Hunter Valley in New South Wales #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #WildOZ #OZBirds #wildlife #nature

This Powerful Owlet still has a lot of it's floofy chick down, although it's adult bat-like chevrons have really begun to come through. #birds #wildoz

Check out this blog by Matt Kendall about our need to consume less and treat the planet more gently

🙏Please ppl, if you see bits of net or fishing line, anything a bird can get its feet caught in lying around, pick up & bin it. Last year we had to rescue a young magpie w net on a leg that got caught on a tree branch. So lucky we got to him. #WildlifeRescue #Nature #Birds

HSI calls for new era of wildlife co-existence and an end to killing as the default for wildlife conflicts. Follows new report which for the first time quantifies the national persecution of Australia’s native animals hsi.org.au/licence-to-k...

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Last Friday we totally failed to find the Powerful Owl pair that we were checking up on (though we did find a POwl feather and some scat), but there was this sleeping Joey in a tree. #brisbane #wildoz

I'm on late shift tonight for any wildlife rescue calls that come in from Midnight to 4am. We're open 24/7 & we all take turns doing the red eye shift. Anyone else awake out there? Say hello if you are.

Have you ever seen a gang gang cockatoo? Have you ever HEARD a gang gang? They are the cutest cutest member of the cockie family - grey/black with the males having a bright red head and crest. And they creeeaaaaak like a creaky door. Sound on and have a listen to this sweet pair #birds #canberra

As a distraction I am painting the silliest thing I can imagine… an emu eating fondue… now what to have on the end of the fork 🤔

Last night I attended a fascinating talk presented by the Australian Dingo Foundation about the role of this much persecuted apex predator in the landscape and its role in keeping the ecosystem in balance. Meet Pumbah, a stunning example of this vital species. #AusWildlife

Our resident Australian Boobook owl (Ninox boobook) who roosts most days in a tree close to the house. Such an amazing bird, such an intense gaze #ausbirds #biodiversity #WildOz #owls 🌿🦉📸

Powerful Owls are very scary #scarybirds 🎃👻💀🪶

One of the delights of living in Tasmania is sharing a yard with small marsupials called pademelons. Since cutting holes in our fence and letting them in, we no longer need to mow grass instead we have a marsupial law. The grass cutter do demand payment there efforts and enforce rules 1/

East Coast koalas were officially listed as endangered in 2022. Since then 46 koalas have been killed by cars on Appin Road Campbelltown alone, due to habitat loss, inadequate fencing, & non existent overpasses 🐨😢 #auswildlife #australianwildlife www.sydneybasinkoalanetwork.org.au/sydney_s_dea...

You may be wondering how the hell kangaroos are getting their heads caught in bin lids? =Holidayers leaving bins outside tents & caravans. If you're planning on camping this xmas, pls don't feed wildlife & keep rubbish bags & bins inside👍🦘 #NotABinChicken #auswildlife www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10...