Dave Smith

Blue mountains scenery 🫠

Katter refuses to acknowledge the monarchy, basically zero backlash (compare that to the reaction Thorpe got!).

One Nation boycott the Welcome to Country.

But what do Labor and the Coalition decide is the most outrageous thing? A silent protest against Israel.

Our newest bird paper out now in Biological Conservation. We did >2500 bird surveys on farms over a few years! In the paper we demonstrate the benefits of grazing control and revegetation for birds at farm dams.

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Purple-crowned Lorikeet from Wagin, WA. We saw plenty of these guys throughout the WA wheatbelt this spring. #WildOz

A lovely female Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo from Denmark, WA

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I reckon it’s a bells form lace monitor

Working in the Belah near Dubbo today. Heaps of great birds including lots of Painted Honeyeaters, which were feasting on the Buloke Mistletoe. Budgies, cockatiels and big woodswallow flocks also a highlight.

Is ecology social media good again?? Anyway I’m currently in Nyngan

Our group is advertising for a postdoc to work on innovative biodiversity monitoring methods. Come and join us to work on this really cool and interesting project! #postdocjobs

jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Some cuddly Red-eyed Tree Frogs (Litoria chloris) #WildOz

Southern Angle-headed Dragon from Lamington NP 🫠

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Went to Norway and saw some Magpies. Pretty good, but I prefer my magpies to be more violent.

Always helping

Got bogged the other month while spotlighting - confirmed I definitely shouldn’t have been driving in there when I found a shield shrimp swimming around 🤦‍♂️

Farm sunrise

Spring bird surveys = good sunrises