Elisa 🌞

A kookaburra (a type of large kingfisher from Australia) reaches its large beak towards a hand, gingerly offering a morsel of cheese

Kooka, meet fingers. Kooka, be nice to fingers please! Ok, yes you can have some cheese!
(Laughing kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae)

Alt: an Australian Eastern water dragon sleeping in the pool at the edge, with her head tucked into some rocks just above the water line.

UPDATE: She's sleeping in the water!? Oh, she woke up, woops.
Apparently they do this sometimes, especially in Winter (keeping that body temperature stable) #wildoz

An Australian eastern water dragon lifts it's head out of the water using a rock set into the edge of a pool

An Australian eastern water dragon sits half way out of the water on a different rock set into the edge of a pool

An Australian eastern water dragon leaps from one rock to another, in a blurry action shot

Australian Eastern water dragon (Intellegama lesueurii) going for a dip in the pool at dusk yesterday 🐉
She's shedding so the swim will help loosen the dry skin! #wildoz

I know 😭

There's something like 8 species of shark in this bay 🦈 so you're pretty close!

A eucalyptus stick is pushing into the stand at one end. The other end has a few small branched nubs. A phone is precariously balanced to record a video

Engineering skills coming out when you least expect it 🩵
You can't see the tiny pipi bivalve shell which wedges the phone in - critical keystone piece!

A minute of gentle waves
📍Hole in the Wall, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, Australia #beach #soundscape

A reminder to take some time to womble through the dusk and nom some tasty greens #wildoz #wombat
📍 Bendeela Recreation Area, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, Australia

😂😭🤣

A braid of garlic around 40cm long, hanging in front of tiles

Garlic plaitin' time 🧄 #straya #gardening

Libraries feel like something about which we could very easily be saying, “Remember that place where you could borrow books, for FREE, and return them when you were finished?” And kids would say “What?? No way!” And yet there they still are, despite everything we’ve become, existing. Remarkable.

A model of a common yabby, which is a Predominantly blue crayfish native to Australia. View from front, black background.

A model of a common yabby, which is a Predominantly blue crayfish native to Australia. View from side, black background.

A model of a common yabby, which is a Predominantly blue crayfish native to Australia. View from beneath, revealing orange eggs tucked under the tail, black background.

A model of a common yabby, which is a Predominantly blue crayfish native to Australia. View from top, black background.

Common Yabby, Cherax destructor (one of my favourite scientific names). Now on display at Oxford Uni Museum of Natural History

I grew up in a patch of subtropical rainforest/wet sclerophyll forest north of Sydney.🌳 We've been running a camera trap for 10+ years, and occasionally something amazing turns up!

Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - pretty incredible that native marsupial predators still stalk the forest! #WildOz

Fun fact! Australia once deployed our army in a war against wild emus... And lost!

All I can say is good luck! 🫡
#wildoz
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

A few years ago on 🐦 we had a wonderful culture of sharing Australian ecological science and nature photography with the #WildOz hashtag.

I'd love to bring it back to Bluesky, so here's a starterpack of Australian ecologists, botanists, naturalists & nature photographers! 📸🦘🌳🐨🦜

go.bsky.app/5hG9bGW

🎶 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…

Highlight of a week of pitfall trapping at AWC's Paruna Sanctuary: my first Noolbenger (AKA Honey Possum; Tarsipes rostratus).
They feed on pollen and nectar, so after some taking measurements, we give them some sugar water before sending them on their way.
#WildOz

Yet another example of why the Solomons are stunning 💙 I can't believe its been a decade since we went! (I'd tag Robbi but he is handle.invalid today)

"You will also have the option to rate your flatulence on other characteristics (like loudness, duration etc)"

"Taking part is not likely to directly benefit you."

"This study has been approved by CSIRO’s Low Risk Human Research Ethics Committee."

The science project we all need right now.

Pretty incredible to see one of Australia's most unique and charasmatic creatures happily foraging just metres from the conference venue at FOSS4G in Hobart last week! 🤩

More conferences should have resident platypuses! #WildOz

Yay! Let me know if you see any zoos, etc, join that I don't have yet! And check out the conservation feeds behind the # symbol!

Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove 4 bedroom detached house for sale in Mansion Gardens, Potterspury, NN12 for £825,000. Marketed by Howkins and Harrison LLP, Towcester

Picture 10, everyone. You can thank me later.

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

I haven't had a chance to be part of #30DayMapChallenge this year, and am a few days behind... but Day 11 "Time and space" is too good to resist:

Here's one week of ocean tides animated across Australasia (🔵= high tide, 🔴 = low tide). 🌊 Pretty incredible how complex (and hypnotic!) they are!

Drawing of Anemone flower in pink with yellow centre, drawn using Copic markers

Anemone is not an enemy 🌸
#art #botany #copic #sciart #flower

Same! Cute but deadly is a particular favourite category of animals!

I guess that makes this #oldworkwednesday!?

"Teeth out" 😂

Did you know quolls come in 2 colour forms? I like to call them chocolate and caramel!

Art of a fairy penguin

Art of a king parrot

Art of an eastern yellow robin

Art of golden wattle

A long, long time ago (pre-pandemic anyway) I did some arts! If you like biologically accurate art of Australian #birds, #marsupials or #botany, have a look! You can even get a bin chicken shirt 💕
#sciart #wildoz
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