The poo ponds at Werribee are a fantastic spot for bird watching. They're not only home to waterbirds, but also to all sorts of grassland and salt marsh species. Haven't been there for ages but I have vivid memories of the incredible diversity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Check out Coral-Mae's (age 9) felt plover, inspired by the Pacific Golden Plover. This submission comes all the way from The Crags, South Africa! Golden Plover chicks are born in the arctic tundra amongst the thawing ice and thriving plant life looking like moss puffs. #PAD2025

Greater Painted-Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) female (left) and male. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Perak #Malaysia @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social #birds #nature #wildlife @mybirdcards.com @ebrrh.bsky.social

Hi! We're new here but maybe you followed us on X! We're @birdlifeoz.bsky.social's Beach-nesting Birds team - working to give birds that nest on Australian beaches a chance to raise their young 🐥 We've uploaded our past X posts, so you can learn about our work if you didn't know us! #plovers

...hone the recognition software, so we can all better monitor for bitterns across Tasmania. It's fun, there'll be great snacks, & you don't need to be an expert. Have a go for National Science Week! Details & bookings: events.humanitix.com/bittern-ques... #nationalscienceweek

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

Stick insects! Everyone loves stick insects. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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 🧪🌏🌿🎙️🪶🦇

Excellent graphic from @birdlifeoz.bsky.social about the all too common mix up between the Australasian Bittern and Nankeen Night-heron.

AviList: a unified global bird checklist | link.springer.com/ar... | Biodiversity and Conservation | #ornithology 🪶

This is what it’s like to check the nest of a regent parrot on the banks of the Murray River 😍👀👀

Alison and her family have been such wonderful champions of the reintroduction program. On some nights, up to five birds visit their property and run laps around their home - and they love it! (And no, the birds don’t keep them awake - they’ve never heard a peep!) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Kanangra-Boyd National Park at its best this weekend. This wildlife paradise is home to Glossy Black Cockatoos, Yellow-bellied Gliders and Small Alpine Xenicas, among many other rare species. And I reckon that Mt Cloudmaker, the peak near the sun, is one of Australia’s best hikes.

Ever had that feeling of being watched..? Reminded when I looked up from frog surveys to find I was the one being surveyed. By a southern bell frog. Creep.

Discussing how to grow mistletoe with David Watson, the world’s mistletoe expert, and the importance of guidance reflecting the evidence youtu.be/6N1eOrSe-1s?...

Drone survey for Southern Greater Glider – Caveat forest In May 2025 Strathbogie Ranges Conservation and Hughes Creek Catchment Collaborative engaged drone specialists Field Master Systems to conduct a thermal survey of two areas in the Caveat forest. The target species was the nationally…

One Kultarr becomes three! Australia gains two new cool dasyurids - carnivorous marsupials that look like hopping mice! Fantastic integrative taxonomy by Cameron Dodd, @planigale.bsky.social @kennytravouillon.bsky.social and co-authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our newest bird paper out now in Biological Conservation. We did >2500 bird surveys on farms over a few years! In the paper we demonstrate the benefits of grazing control and revegetation for birds at farm dams. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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

This year, at #ICCB2025, I will share our research on butterfly migration. If you are around, come and say hi! Also, feel free to reach out if you are looking for a PhD position. You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.

Great presso on fire management and yirlinkirrkirr (white-throated grasswren) from the Warddeken rangers. #iccb2025

Dr April Reside convinces us at #ICCB2025 that microbats are the best crop-pest eaters! Eating their body weight in insects every night 😳. They indeed forage in veggie crop farms, but can we do better to lure more microbat species to do more crop-protecting help? @iccb2025.bsky.social

How utterly incredible! Leadbeaters Possum caught on camera at Yarrangobilly Caves NSW. #WildOz #NSWpol #SpringSt #environment www.theage.com.au/environment/...

After hearing what scientists had learnt about the night parrot in QLD, Indigenous rangers in WA found 22 new parrot sites from 2017–2023, doubling known records and greatly expanding our knowledge of the rare bird. It shows how two-way partnerships strengthen threatened species recovery. #NRW2025

Recent trip with the Yarkuwa boys, doing bird surveys … vimeo.com/1087129088

These regent parrots are inspecting a nest hollow in a river red gum along the Murray River - females are the boss in this species and she's not having any of his nonsense when it comes to choosing a good nest 😂

Bird Waterers are such a fabulous way for wildlife to coexist with us safely in a city. these ones in Perth support Carnaby's and red tailed black cockatoos. they're in most dog parks and the cockies love them! #wildoz 🪶🌏 www.victoriapark.wa.gov.au/residents/en...

Male Australasian Bitterns are highly territorial in the breeding season. Many are now on their way from the Riverina’s rice fields to coastal wetlands in NSW, VIC and SA for winter. Latest Australian population estimate is only 1300 (+~700 in NZ) but conservation action is building. Glorious birds.

Causes of nest failure vary with water depth, nesting substrate, and adverse weather in the endangered wetland-breeding Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus (Everglade Snail Kite) | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Male Australasian Bitterns are highly territorial in the breeding season. Many are now on their way from the Riverina’s rice fields to coastal wetlands in NSW, VIC and SA for winter. Latest Australian population estimate is only 1300 (+~700 in NZ) but conservation action is building. Glorious birds.

Another 24 bush stone-curlews have now been released on Milawul, Phillip Island, in an effort to establish a population here. With over thirty birds on the island, it’s likely the largest bush stone-curlew population in the state.

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...

Check out this excellent phone camera footage just in from Murrami rice grower, Doug Johnson. Another season of Australasian Bitterns breeding in the NSW Riverina’s rice crops is nearing its end and these birds will soon disperse up to 600 km to their wintering sites.

Now with the link!! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Check out this excellent phone camera footage just in from Murrami rice grower, Doug Johnson. Another season of Australasian Bitterns breeding in the NSW Riverina’s rice crops is nearing its end and these birds will soon disperse up to 600 km to their wintering sites.

The next video in our Last Chance nature series is about the critically endangered far-eastern curlew and the people working to protect this amazing migratory shorebird’s coastal habitat at Darwin harbour

Greater Painted-Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis), pair (male in front). Unusual birds in that females have richer plumage & males incubate eggs & care for young. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Perak #Malaysia #birds #nature #wildlife @mybirdcards.com @ebrrh.bsky.social

👀 LOOK AT THIS NEW BREEDING RECORD!! It’s from an undisclosed wetland in the Townsville region of north QLD. This incredible sighting of a male Australian Painted-snipe with his three babies is absolutely sensational. Photos by Graham Holder.

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👀 LOOK AT THIS NEW BREEDING RECORD!! It’s from an undisclosed wetland in the Townsville region of north QLD. This incredible sighting of a male Australian Painted-snipe with his three babies is absolutely sensational. Photos by Graham Holder.

You’ve probably already heard about “Knighty” flying to north QLD but check out “Hope” who is now in the Cooper Creek, south-west QLD … paintedsnipe.com.au/2025/04/01/k...

One of our Macquarie Marshes birds finally hit 5G coverage and just gave us a dump of 573 fixes! HE’S IN NORTH QLD! Its a gold mine of data for the endangered Australian Painted-snipe.

There are seven bush stone-curlews in this photo. Their decline in southern Australia is due to ⬇️ roosting habitat and ⬆️ in predation by invasive predators. This photo shows just how important daytime roosts are to avoid predation - overstory to hide under & woody debris to camouflage amongst.

In the LATEST ISSUE of IBIS Acoustic detection rate can outperform traditional survey approaches in estimating relative densities of breeding waders | onlinelibrary.wiley.... David Jarrett, Stephen G. Willis | #ornithology 🪶

Spine free zone! It is time for invertebrates to stand up and be counted. There are quite a lot of them apparently. Today's cartoon... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Calling all ornithologists. Abstract submissions are now open for the Australasian Ornithological Congress in sunny Perth, November 18-20. Come for the birds, stay for the beaches. aoc.org.au/call-for-abs...

A nice little film about some of our recent work with Yarkuwa in the Werai, hanging out with old mate @damianmichael.bsky.social vimeo.com/1050985408

A stunning female Plains-wanderer, one of five individuals observed last night in a patch of managed habitat on private land. #savingourspecies #plainswanderer #grasslandbird #bird #wildoz