@james-pay.bsky.social
Research fellow at the University of Tasmania. Conservation and spatial ecology of threatened birds.
New Research! Unmasking the impact of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides on masked owls 🦉🐀🦉
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
New research! - Fine-scale spatial risk models to predict avian collisions with power lines 🦅 @jappliedecology.bsky.social
26.06.2025 01:03 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Hobart Mercury, "Mapping Tool helps cut eagle death risk." Image 1 of powerline technician in lifter basket working on a line. Image 2 of eagle sitting atop powerline pole between two high voltage lines. Image 3 two eagles perched on dead tree limb.
UTAS researcher @james-pay.bsky.social and team from School of Natural Sceinces have analysed 6 years of eagle-worn GPS tracking data to develop a tool to map the risk of eagle and power line collisions. Data driven science that promotes both vital infrastructure and biodiversity conservation.
22.06.2025 00:39 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Overhead power lines kill millions of birds a year. Scientists found a way to help cut the devastating toll
theconversation.com/overhead-pow...
In Australia a large number of animals are shot to control populations. This can cause wedgies to be poisoned, as they come down for an easy lunch and end up eating toxic lead bullet fragments. Our research found lots of wedgies are being exposed to lead.
buff.ly/2NtCwFS
The piercing gaze of Astid the adult Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle 🦅 #endangered #wedgetailedeagle
21.10.2021 22:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Powerful owl deaths fuel concerns mouse poison is spreading through food chain
theguardian.com/environment/20…
A little bundle of womble keeping us company in the field this cold morning 😍
06.05.2021 01:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week elusive Tauriel joined our team of endangered Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagle data collectors. It just took us three weeks of field work... two flat tyres, and countless leech bites...
30.04.2021 02:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A young endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle showing off its blonde bouffant hairdo 🦅 #wedgetailedeagle #fieldworkfriday
23.04.2021 00:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A family of endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles enjoying an evening snack. Dad on the left, mum in the middle, and this year's youngster on the right #wedgetailedeagle
08.04.2021 01:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Young wedgie leaving one of our eagle buffets after having her fill 🦅 #wedgetailedeagle
06.04.2021 00:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Currently averaging more flat tyres than eagles during this field work... #fieldworkfriday
01.04.2021 22:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday evening Maxie joined our team of Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagle data collectors. 🦅 🦅 She also projectiled a substantial amount of eagle poop all over me 💩
31.03.2021 22:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle purposefully strutting to its lunch. #pantaloons #BirdsWithPants #wedgetailedeagle
27.03.2021 00:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A couple of rainbows keeping me company on this looong rainy day sitting in a car waiting for eagles... 🦅🌈 #doublerainbow
25.03.2021 08:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
As soon as the sun goes down, we have an assortment of nocturnal critters pilfering our wedge-tailed eagle food. Quolls have to be the cutest thieves! 🐾 🌛 #fieldwork
16.03.2021 04:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bumped into this guy on the side of the road (luckily not literally!).
Sadly lots of wedgies get hit on the road each year as they come down to feed on roadkill. #wedgetailedeagle
Two endangered Tasmanian wedgies at one of our feeding stations this morning. Guarding their breakfast. 🦅#wedgetailedeagle
24.02.2021 00:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A pretty amazing sunset! Well done Tassie 😍 🌄 #tasmania
18.02.2021 09:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Elsie the Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagle has come back to life! 😍 🦅
Elsie disappeared early 2019 and we assumed she had died. She's just checked in and sent through her data. She's just been hanging out in the Tassie highlands with no signal for the last couple of years!
New paper out in @SETAC_world
High Frequency of Lead Exposure in the Population of an Endangered Australian Top Predator
Turns out wedgies have a lot of lead in their lunch! Likely from bits of bullets.
Free to read here ->
buff.ly/2NtCwFS
Can definitely attest to the biteyness! My left nipple will never be the same... 😓🦅
One more day to reach the crowdfunding target for "Where? Where? Wedgie!". Help us understand the Tassie wedge-tailed eagle population. Click here -
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Wilfred the endangered Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagle showing off his feathery pantaloons! #birdswithpants
16.09.2020 23:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As lovely as Tasmanian devils are - I wish they would stop stealing all the eagle food! They are making field work a challenge!
30.08.2020 23:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Got a text from Edward the #wedgetailedeagle this morning letting me know he hadn't moved for three days. After a 4 hour drive + hike to see if he's ok - all I find is a dead pademelon and a whole load of Edward's poop.. at least he was hanging out in a pretty part of Tassie
29.08.2020 07:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two very different ways to get on and off a Tasmanian island. Boated on at 7am, drove off (1.5 km nervously!) on low tide at 5pm. #carsurvived
27.08.2020 08:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Eugene the Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagle nestling sheltering under mum from some afternoon rain.
29.06.2020 23:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is definitely one of the more precariously positioned Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagle nests! Usually they nest in a large fork close to the main trunk. This one's defying the odds though! Still going strong since it was discovered in 2015.
21.06.2020 23:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Checking Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle nests usually involves battling steep slopes and dense forest, so this is positively delightful! (... despite the army of leeches!) #Tasmania
15.06.2020 01:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
