Janet Leversha

Today’s theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #PrimaryColours

Superb Fairywren

#birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdlover #BirdsOfAustralia #ProtectBirdHabitat

Top view of a moth with patchy black, white, and brown wings, with a pale winding line running across them

Corgatha pleuroplaca

This beautiful moth was definitely the standout of last night’s moth visitors. This species is endemic Western Australia but seems to only be recorded infrequently with just 16 records in iNat.

#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist

Property owner 'angry' after council destroys important roadside feature The council has urged property owners to let them know if they wish to maintain the verge grass themselves.

An Australian council has sprayed Glyphosate weedkiller on a 50-metre-long patch of native grass that had been documented as breeding habitat for a bird species listed as vulnerable to extinction.

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A pink cockatoo in flight.
Love those salmon coloured underwings.
Kinchega National Park, New South Wales.

Incoming!
A pink cockatoo at Kinchega National Park, New South Wales.

Lovely bird in a great national park. Also terrific photo Sandy, thank you for sharing 💟

Female Powerful Owl flexing her talons.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz

Hakea macrocarpa
Proteaceae
Barkly Tablelands
Northern Territory
#HakeaMicrocarpa #Proteaceae #Botany #ozplants #ozflora #AustralianFlora #Australiannature #wildoz #nature #photography #BarklyTablelands #Australia #Bluesky

Eucalypt Australia are proud to support the 4th Cavendish Red Gum Festival.

This wonderful all ages festival in Western Vic celebrates the remarkable River Red Gum & its many gifts to nature & culture.

An excellent excuse for a getaway, check out the program today: cavendishredgumfestival.com.au

They do have a distinctive loud buzz. I usually hear them before spotting them.

A spotted-tail quoll, alert and facing the camera. It is standing on a cut log.

Our local quoll showed up again and this time I actually managed to get a decent picture. This might be the best thing that has ever happened to me. #auswildlife #wildoz #marsupial #mammal

What a stunning little man 🥰 #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Quokkas are known as the world's happiest animal, you can see why! #drawing #quokka #australia #wildlifeart

Look! Listen! All those bird calls you can hear? It’s “just” sounds coming from the lyrebirds. 🤎 #Kinglake3763 #WildOz #birds

Went spotlighting last night for the first time in a while and saw a brush-failed phascogale for the first time in a while! These carnivorous marsupials love climbing around in trees but I’ve never seen one in the canopy and I’d assumed they didn’t go up that high. This one proved me very wrong:

Absolutely gorgeous 😍

The Southern Greater Glider in the Caveat Forest – a timeline [I’m posting this story with a heavy heart. I’d already written most of this a few months ago and was trying to tidy up a few loose ends. Then, on January 8, a Thursday, a bushfire star…

The last popn of the #auswildlife #southerngreaterglider (Petauroides volans) in the western Strathbogie Ranges numbers less than 100. It has survived land clearing, fire and genetic bottleneck. Can it survive an uncertain #climate future? 🌏
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A restless flycatcher at Menindee, New South Wales.
#birdsseenin2026

Table summarising the number of eucalypt species growing at Currency Creek Arboretum.

Screenshot from BOM indicating rainfall deciles in South Australia over 24 months to December 2025.

The arboretum reached 'peak eucalypt diversity' in early 2024, when we had 95% of all euc species growing (820 of the 840 known species).

Since then, we've lost 50 to 100 species due to 'drought'. With runaway anthropogenic climate change, we're unlikely to ever reach those Feb 2024 numbers again.

Pelicans and cormorants in a golden sunset.
Menindee, New South Wales.

Stunning image Sandy.

What an amazing shot of Regent Honeyeater by Jan Wegener

#ausbirds #birds

check out his page
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Australia’s four seasons

I had a lovely day in the southwest of Tasmania today - 36km walked and a whole lot of plant surveys 💚

Traditional owners heartbroken by dingo cull after Piper James's death The Queensland government euthanises six dingoes involved in Piper James's death on K'gari, and is expected to cull more in the coming days.

Another totally messed-up act in colonial Australia.
First Nations peoples disregarded and sidelined, again.
Wongari (dingoes) murdered.
Shame on all responsible.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Grunge gang gang

Photo taken at night of a small grey marsupial with a long tail at a water bath. The last half of the tail is covered in long black hairs, like a brush.

So excited last night when this beautiful South-western Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa wambenger) visited our Perth Hills garden, taking the opportunity to get a quick drink 😍

Our first time seeing this amazing Australian native marsupial.

#auswildlife #wildoz #native #marsupial

Variole paropsine beetle larvae chewing a few leaves on a Eucalyptus mckieana sapling at Currency Creek Arboretum.

Pretty cool critters at this life-stage, but I'm hoping to see them as adult beetles, when they become much more endearing! See:
www.inaturalist.org/taxa/746677-...

Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster The warming climate is killing Australia’s forest trees at a faster rate. This offers a glimpse of what may lie ahead for forests globally.

I hear from friends in WA, where the trees are dying.
I hear of the loss in the Adelaide Hills.
I see it here in Central VIC.
I see it across the higher mountains.

The fact that ecologists still manage to function in the face of ongoing loss is a daily miracle.

theconversation.com/yes-forest-t...

Painting created with dots showing sixteen squares encasing different symbolic motifs and significant symbols in various colours

Indigenous Australian artist Loongkoonan, who started painting at 95, and first exhibited her work at age 105 #womensart