Janet Leversha

Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍

Yawang – a Cultural Reserve The Victorian Government recently announced its commitment to creating a Cultural Reserve across the entire Strathbogie State Forest. Planning and management of the reserve will follow a "collaborative governance" arrangement with Traditional Owners, the Taungurung Land and Waters Council (TLaWC). We congratulate the Victorian government, its two key advisory bodies, the Great Outdoors Taskforce and Eminent Panel for Community Engagement…

Yawang – a Cultural Reserve

The Victorian Government recently announced its commitment to creating a Cultural Reserve across the entire Strathbogie State Forest. Planning and management of the reserve will follow a "collaborative governance" arrangement with Traditional Owners, the Taungurung Land…

🧵Spotted at a Mask Carnivale in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A dreamy young human (7?) is participating in a haka but he's a bit distracted.
But it's okay.
His friend is at his side.
Hip bumping him and reminding him how it goes.
Yes!
He's got it now!
Eyes wide.
Face fierce.
He's in the zone. (1)

Giving this one another run, since it's rainbow bee-eater season again. We only see them here during the warmer months.
This one performed an unorthodox landing 😄

Crabeater seals (photo: Kerry Steinberner/AAD)

1/ Crabeater seals are the most abundant top predator in the Southern Ocean and probably the most numerous large wild mammals on earth. Because they live almost their entire lives amongst floating sea ice around #Antarctica, it’s difficult to count them – total population is an estimated 15 million.

Bogong moth illustration by @terngirl

In spring, over a billion Bogong moths travel from all over SE Australia to a place they have never been before, Alpine caves, to spend the summer in aestivation. In Autumn the same individual returns to its breeding ground & dies. How do they do it? Prof Eric Warrant. The Biodiversity Conference.

A large bird sites in a chain link fence. The bird has a dark head, large somewhat menacing bill, speckled dark brown wings and a long dark tail feathers with light brown barring.

Do people still use this app?

Anyway, here's a pheasant coucal in the botanic gardens in Darwin. A truly stupendous bird.
#WildOz

From riverbank to ruin Every now and then a comment lands that stops the scroll dead. Under David Tyler’s recent article, Australia’s Environmental Policy Crisis: A Closer Look, reader Canguro didn’t just reminisce – he del...

“Australia’s largest river system… ruined. Who knew? Who cared?”

Passionately written article.

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Attitude!
A white-winged fairywren near Wilmington.
#wrensday

A Fringe Lily flower in the usual deep purple colour

A Fringe Lily flower which is snow White in colour

A Fringe Lily flower which is silver grey in colour

A Fringe Lily flower which is pale pink in colour

While the flowers of Fringe Lilies (Thysanotus sp.) are usually a beautiful deep purple colour, occasionally you can spot a Fringe Lily with flowers in other stunning colours 💜🤍🩶🩷

These were flowering today in the Perth Hills
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomsrolling #nature #inaturalist

They really are some of the most delightful flowers 🥰 🌱.

My favourite parrots. A pair of Blue Bonnets who sat very patiently for me. #birds #brucebirdlife

So happy this painting found a new home at the Birdlife exhibition! I have two originals left in my parrot series and I've just made them both half-price 🤩 rachelhollis.com/original-art... #painting #artwork #birdart #australianart #wildoz #birdlifeaustralia

🧵Spotted On Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (2?) is sitting on Dad's shoulders while eating an ice cream.
But what is this?!
A BIG drip onto Dad's bald head?
Oh no!
Oh well, he'll just lick it off.
(Dad's expression running a whole gamut of emotions.) (1)

Red beard orchid (Calochilus paludosus) near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC.

Red beard orchid (Calochilus paludosus) near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC. Good numbers out in open grassland this year at this location - with flowers starting to open on a warm morning. A relatively uniform species across a wide range in Australia (and New Zealand). #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity

Congratulations to the Tawny Frogmouth on being crowned bird of the year 2025. This one, named Ralph by my daughter and friends, looks suitably pleased with the accolade.

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Sound UP! When a gang of young male Superb Lyrebirds surround you, often within less than a metre. I zoomed back to 80mm but often had to lean back to get this footage. I've left it largely unedited to capture the mayhem of the moment. #birds #birding #nature #lyrebirds

I love the Haloragaceae family, and one of my favourites is the ever so showy #Glischrocaryon aureum! This family can be hard to ID but this one’s easy tho still a little tricky from photos 😅 they are a common species and have these sulfury yellow flowers that can turn red upon fruit set!

🧵Spotted Recently at the Beach in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A tiny human (1.5?) is toddle-running down into the surf only for the receding water to come back again!
(Oh no!)
Shrieking she runs back up the sand again.
But wait!
The water's going away again?
Hmm.
Maybe it's time to go back in... (1)

Today I found what a brown thornbill nest looks like. Looked into the orchid & thought "oh, someone's nest has fallen in there". Picked it up & it started cheeping, & the parents rallied angrily. Put it back hurriedly & carefully! #Thornbills (Acanthiza pusilla) plentiful #birds here all year. 🪶

Thelymitra crinita flowering on our place today. Love these native “blue lady” orchids. Once our block was covered in them but the 7 resident kangaroos have severely reduced plant survival!

Planchonia careya
Lecythidaceae
(Cocky Apple)
Townsville, Queensland,
Australia
Oct 2025
#PlanchoniaCareya #Lecythidaceae #CockyApple
#ozplants #Australiannature #botany #wildoz #nature
#ozflora #botany #NativeFlora #Flora #photography #photographyofbluesky #bluesky

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I love when there’s a plant that completely does not look like the rest of its family at first glance! That’s certainly the case with #Ceratogyne obionoides, a weird flower and fruited #Asteraceae that’s common throughout most of inland WA and into the souther parts of other states!

Microgrants for #NationalEucalyptDay2026 are open!
The theme is "Our Eucalypt Home"—we're seeking events that celebrate gums + Aussie flora & fauna.
Info + EOI: eucalyptaustralia.org.au/national-euc...

Three-horned bird orchid (Chiloglottis triceratop

Red bearded orchid

Sun orchid Thelymitra

Mayfly orchid Acianthus caudatus,

Some excellent #orchids with excellent names in #Tasmania & #RoyalNationalPark:
Three-horned bird orchid (Chiloglottis triceratops, which Wikipedia reckons is named as it resembles the dinosaur, rather then because it has three "horns" on its tongue).
Red bearded #orchid.
Sun orchid.
Mayfly orchid.🌸

Ready for launch! The lovely little black-fronted dotterels were my (almost) constant companions at Lake Hattah.

Nest must be getting pretty squeezy now! Baby on the left is still a little whitish fluffball though. Hoping the third one is still in there somewhere.
#tawnyfrogmouth #ausbirds #urbanbirds #spring

Drosera drummondii - a scrambling carnivorous sundew with deep pinky/purple flowers

Teloschistes chrysophthalmus - an orange lichen growing on a dry twig

Thelymitra antennifera - close up of two bright yellow orchid flowers in the sunshine.

Verticordia plumosa - a shrub with small leaves and rounded groups of pink flowers with a feathered appearance to them.

I love exploring granite outcrops, they can be a haven for a variety of native plants. Albany has many, including Kardarup/Mt Melville near the city

🌿 Drummond’s Sundew
🍄 Golden-eye Lichen
🌱 Lemon-scented Sun Orchid
🌸 Plumed Featherflower

#ozplants #lichen #wildoz #orchids #nativeplants #nature

Picture of an orchid flower which had two erect yellow petals with purple colour to their ends. The centre of the flower is purple/mauve in colour

Diuris longifolia - the Purple Pansy Orchid

One of the species endemic to the south west of Western Australia that is currently flowering
#orchids #Orctober #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature