Pink cockatoos in flight at Kinchega National Park, New South Wales.
How to get into nature.
If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
Oooooooooo—seems Koala may be the closest living relative to Thylacoleo…
Cape sunsets are something special!
Little pied cormorants coming in to roost at the end of the day. I’ve watched them fly this path so many times, but I don’t often get this many on skytrap all in frame at once!
First light on a solar/battery powered skytrap! No shortage of sunlight in FNQ for testing.
I was hoping to get images like this from Sky cam, a raven was flying over the house and this is the flight path it took.
#birds
That’s fantastic! What sort of camera and exposure is getting such clear night shots?
🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
And while I've got cockatiels on my mind, here's another photo, taken in my friend's backyard.
Remember this, @boyfrombruce.bsky.social ?
Some osprey action shots from last month at Juanita Bay Park, Seattle.
Morning all. #FriYay
Also, when reading, reviewing and commenting on the work of others, be kind and constructive, always.
Red Wattlebird flight silhouettes
Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2)
By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org
It’s #NationalScienceWeek! 🐦
Our HANZAB encyclopaedia is now online & free – covering every bird ever recorded in Aus, NZ & Antarctica. Updated with the latest taxonomy & threat statuses, it’s a game-changer for bird lovers & researchers alike
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#BirdLifeAustralia #Birds
Silhouettes of a Little Corella motion tracked past a skytrap. In this moment, this individual is flying with a wingbeat frequency of 4.5Hz - pretty close to expected scaling for a bird of that mass!
Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event
- @petrastock.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The first paper from my postdoc is finally out! In collaboration with @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Amy Angert, we outline how behavioral plasticity influences animal species’ distributions and can improve our understanding of range shifts under climate change! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I'm so happy with this paper that I forgot to post its link!!! :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I've been on attenuation models for some time, and it is always nice (and hard) to write papers between physics and ecology. I have actually developed a new attenuation model for this one! Have been working with physicists on a second paper using birds from Amazonia.❤️ To be continued!
#bioacoustics
Red Wattlebird landing next to skytrap 5. If Silver Gulls are my most trapped species, this is one of my most trapped individuals. Slowed to about 20%.
Love this.
"Standing tall against fossil fuels, rising up out of the ocean like a middle finger to CO2...motherfuckin' wind farms!"
Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands.
I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.
🚨Arooga arooga! 🚨
Excited to share the cover of my very first picture book: "Bear to the Rescue"! 🐨🐶📘🔥
Co-written with Romane Cristescu, and illustrated bySylvia Morris, our book tells the true story of Bear as he goes from being a bit "too much" to saving koalas after the 2020 mega fires 🔥
Research findings:
💩 #Shearwater guano is rich in phosphorous & potassium
🌴There is evidence the #birds "fertilized" the soil
🐧 Many seabirds are in decline, including LHI's shearwaters
💩 Islands experience a reduction in nutrients from “lost” guano
🌴Likely results in vegetation changes over time
Aeroecology drives seasonal movements and predicts future distributions of a critically endangered terrestrial bird | www.cell.com/current... | Current Biology | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
1. Here's a fish swimming upstream. Nothing unusual about that.
What's unusual is that this particular fish is *dead*. Vortices in the water as it flows past the fish cause the fish's body to flex, maintaining orientation and actually propelling it forward.
(D. N. Beal et al 2006 J. Fluid. Mech.)
No, it's not a sulphur-crested cockatoo, but it is a clever cockie!
Masters student Miro van den Berg is using light-weight BLE-tags to study the urban lives of the gorgeous gang-gang cockatoo. You can read more here: sites.google.com/site/lucymap...
