My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

#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

Thought we had planned this perfectly - morning survey from the balcony at this gorgeous farm stay but unfortunately 99% of the square is on the other side of that hill! Oh well 2 wedgies on the way in is a great sign for tomorrow! #wherewherewedgie #citizenscience

Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡

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...

Calling all Tasmanians! Where Where Wedgie surveys are open for booking! Surveys to be conducted May 23-25th. More info naturetrackers.au/projects/whe... Book today!

So, Murray Watt is the new Environment Minister in the re-elected @albomp.bsky.social government. Murray, please implement environmental law reform and increase investment in environmental protection and recovery, as large numbers of experts have advised. theconversation.com/australians-...

As a mammalogist I'm fascinated by 💩 because it can help us to answer important questions, like who eats more livestock, dingoes or foxes, and how many threatened or near-threatened species are eaten by cats and foxes? New paper, by PhD student Rachel Mason theconversation.com/farmers-fear...

When I travel snails make me think of @snailseyeview.bsky.social 🐌🐌🐌 (Snail from Samoa)

On the trail of the Manumea (tooth-billed pigeon) in Samoa! @catmyoung.bsky.social

One bird. 399 pieces of plastic. 55 g. This is not our record.

Chat GPT tells me - If an echidna were casting a vote in the 2025 Australian election—motivated by instincts to protect its habitat, ensure clean air and water, and avoid human-caused extinction—it would most likely lean toward the Greens. Make good choices today Australia! #auspol

Has anyone asked the echidnas their views on this election? 🎤

There’s antechinus, & there’s ANTECHINUS!! Antechinus are small (usually…) relatives of the Tasmanian devil. This chonk of a male was caught at Inala Jurassic Garden, for quick samples to help out with vaccine research for Devil Facial Tumour @wildimmunity.bsky.social Pic- @catmyoung.bsky.social

Paper daisy season! 🌟

Jewel beetles, paper daisies and highland lakes - magical outing with the Tasmanian Field Naturalists

Turns out that flying London > Darwin + bus/ferry > Hobart, instead of flying all the way to Hobart, saves about 330 kg CO2 (including radiative forcing: the extra impact of emissions high in the atmosphere). Is 330 kg a lot? It’s 11% of the trip; also 9% of Sweden’s 2022 per capita emissions 😳

Bloody cracking talk from @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social! Dogs ARE better than humans, hard agree, Nic! #ESAus2024

Tasmania - when the government says it cannot afford to fix the housing crisis or protect our environment, just remind them they are paying $47,534 a week to park a ship in Edinburgh because the port here won't be built till 2027. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos feeding by the road, Bruny Island

Watching the tide come in, Bruny Island #tranquility

Who's creeping on who? Me with the thermal camera or this sneaky brushtail possum on the deck.

Classically a winter destination Ben Lomond National Park is well worth a visit in the summer!

The local swifties are very much enjoying the flowering black gums in the Hobart suburbs right now!

🎶 It’s me, hi! 🎶 🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶 Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…

Great day out for #WhereWhereWedgie surveys on Bruny Island. Consider this square #239 next year if you are looking for an easy intro to the surveys. Start at the neck campsite, stop at the chocolate shop and the cafe. End at the gin distillery! Winning!! 🦅🦅🦅

Did you like me sign the petition and think 'the Lee Point development in Darwin will never get up, it's clearly bad news'. Well here we are, last ditch effort to save this old growth savannah woodland. saveleepoint.org.au #saveleepoint

Experimental baking - Platypus roll 😋

When this is right outside the door but you are stuck in a dark room and wall to wall meetings 🫤

Stunning light on the mountain this morning in Hobart ☀️❤️

Bruny Island Bird Festival is less than a month away! If you are thinking of booking into walks or evening events you better get in quick! www.brunybirdfestival.org

Bird flu causing ‘catastrophic’ fall in UK seabird numbers, conservationists warn

Definitely in the top 5 cakes I've made 🐗

Office friends! These beauties really help ease the harsh reality of Monday morning back in the office.

I made a thing ❤️

The Environ Protection Agency should never have approved the wind farm on Robbins Island. But at p ast they imposed conditions to protect critically endangered species. These conditions have now been overturned by TasCAT. It's all up to Tanya Plibersek now 😓 www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...

Massive marine heatwave prompting some pretty drastic conservation action! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Stunning day to be out and about on #brunyisland

Gorgeous week of superb parrot science 🦜🪶

Not good. Fire ants detected in NSW for the first time #invasivespecies #biosecurity 🧪🌏 www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...

I'm in the Inala Botanical Gardens on Bruny Island so here are the obligatory Protea pics. Second ones even got a sneaky Antechinus on it 🥰

A moth that mimics a wasp! Coracistis erythrocosma (or so I'm told). #ExtinctionMatters #BioBlitz

This is Hannah, she's heading down the garden path to steal Missy's banana's.

So many wonderful moths!!! ❤️ #ExtinctionMatters #BioBlitz

Many a bird, bat, mammal, frog and insect recorded today/tonight at the Nature Trackers bioblitz! 121 species last I checked!

“All community engagement staff in the biodiversity, conservation and science directorate not funded by specific programs will go, including at least seven Indigenous officers.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... - @phannam.bsky.social

If you ever think about complaining about a conference schedule just don't. It's hard! It's a 3D puzzle where new rules and pieces are constantly added.

Vote yes today Australia 🙏

This is now a dogs in the office account 🐾

This good girl is visiting our office today, might have to petition for a health and wellbeing officer position for her ❤️