Rob Davis

It’s that time of the year where the bougainvillea is so colourful it hurts your eyes when you open the bedroom blinds.

We had a brilliant time at #AOC2025! Congratulations to all the organising team for a fantastic meeting, and we can’t wait to host you all in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in 2027!!

@natforsdick.bsky.social

And in case you didn’t catch it, the next AOC will be held in Auckland, NZ in February 2027! Looking forward to returning to Aotearoa and catching up with that Kōkako!

Far eastern curlew illustration by @terngirl

Richard Fuller, winner of the #AOC2025 Serventy Medal, talks about migratory birds in Australia. From shorebirds that use the East Asian – Australasian Flyway to surreptitious night-time migrant, the story of bird migration is far richer than most of us realise. www.fullerlab.org

What a way to finish the #AOC2025 plenaries with Prof. Rich Fuller talking shorebirds and bird migration more broadly.

The always inspiring Simon Cherriman talked about how to save waalitj - the wedge-tailed eagle. #AOC2025.

The bird nerd quiz made for a memorable #AOC2025 dinner complete with Sean Dooley as MC, bird calls and emu impressions. Thanks to The Aviary for a great venue.

Very proud of our PhD student @nirjana-dewan.bsky.social for delivering an excellent talk at #AOC2025 on her white-tailed black cockatoo genomics work this morning! Looking forward to being able to share some nicely assembled genomes in the near future...stay tuned!

With 4 island types and over 300 islands, Palau has a huge diversity of habitats, for at least 168 bird species, #AOC2025 plenary speaker Heather Ketebengang tells us.

Heather shares how the birds are culturally important to the people of Palau, embedded in many traditional stories and sayings. Protecting nature also ensures the protections of culture and traditions. #AOC2025

Western spinebill

Welcome to #AOC2025!

Busting all our assumptions about sexual dimorphism, bird colour and song, Kristal Cain gets #AOC2025 off to a rollicking start!

Plenary 3 of #AOC2025 was the iconic @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social talking about Orange-bellied Parrots. Science, insights and lessons from over a decade of research. Without captive breeding this species will become extinct in the wild.

Amazing plenary for day 2 at # AOC2025. Alii to Heather Ketebengang from Palau Conservation Society who talked about the importance of Palau to 13 endemic species and migratory shorebirds.

Panel discussion to conclude Day 1 of #AOC2025. It explores the nexus between the energy sector and bird conservation.

Great talk by Mike Lohr on our newest research on rodenticide impacts on Masked Owls #AOC2025

What an amazing opening to #AOC2025 with the Binar Dance Crew and Emeritus Professor Simon Forrest.

It begins! Excited for the greatest and only conference of southern hemisphere ornithologists #AOC2025. See you all tomorrow.

Nice. The garden has come along well since I last saw it. See you soon!

The drop bear lives on!

If you stand still too long around here, the bush will claim you.

Yeah agree there. It’s one of my favourite too. Love the old school dioramas!

Yeah many in the greater Perth region do. It’s meant to be a unique phenotype to that region I think?

When you live in the country, opening the bedroom curtains in the morning can bring all sorts of surprises!

Bec’s stellar supervisory team includes @annajmhopkins.bsky.social Harriet Mills and Saul Cowen. This work would not have been possible without the support of co-authors Tony Friend and Aaron Brace.

Gilbert’s Potoroo and the fun-guys: Co-existing mycophagous mammals as indicators of potentially available fungal food resources - Biodiversity and Conservation Understanding resource use and availability is critical for the success of wildlife translocations, especially for species with complex diets. Mycophagous (fungus-feeding) diets are particularly chall...

The amazing @rebeccajquah.bsky.social who I have the privilege of supervising, just got her first PhD paper published. She used eDNA to examine the diet of the world’s rarest marsupial and explores how this approach can help find new suitable habitat. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Woah, a ghastly murder scene on our property? No it’s just the annual Marri tree sap season! Also called Red Gums, Marri (Corymbia calophylla) can exude an intense blood-like sap from the main trunk. In fact the name Marri is indigenous Noongar for 🩸