Collared lemming at Alert, Nunavut. Picture by Audrey Le Pogam.
Submitted a paper this week to Arctic Science proposing a new way to index collared lemming abundance in the polar desert. The method uses the urine marks lemmings naturally leave on plastic cards placed in their habitat for 48 hours. I call it the pee-card method! 🧪🌿🌎🦊 #wildlife #Arctic #North
Nice chorus of Endangered Sloane’s froglets (and a few other species) at CSU’s David Mitchell wetlands yesterday afternoon. The Thurgoona campus is a hotspot for them #wildoz #threatenedspecies #wetlands @gulbali-institute.bsky.social
An aerial view of Ebor Falls in Guy Fawkes River National Park, New South Wales. A caption reads: "Conservation biologist Jodi Rowley embarked on a mission into some of the most rugged terrain in Australia, the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, to find a tiny rare frog, which hadn’t been seen in over 40 years. But what she found was unexpected." The photo is credited as taken by tracielouise, Getty Images Signature.
In2016, conservation biologist @jodirowley.bsky.social embarked on a mission into some of the most rugged terrain in Australia, the Northern Tablelands of NSW, to find a tiny rare frog, which hadn’t been seen in over 40 years.
But what she found was unexpected:
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The cover of the book Wild Science, featuring a silhouette of a grazing reindeer on a mountain slope, over a background photograph of Ebor Falls in Guy Fawkes River National Park, New South Wale, taken by tracielouise, Getty Images Signature.
Jodi's adventure of rediscovery is one of many precarious, hilarious and thought-provoking stories from the front line of ecology fieldwork included in our book, Wild Science, edited by @hpwaudby.bsky.social.
Find it in bookshops or online:
www.publish.csiro.au/book/8128/
Amazing image of one of Australia’s unique and Critically Endangered bird species. So good to see them breeding! This kind of sighting would be a once in a lifetime experience for many people. David has been working on the species for over 20 years now.
Ever had that feeling of being watched..? Reminded when I looked up from frog surveys to find I was the one being surveyed. By a southern bell frog. Creep.
Wonderful discovery by one of my colleagues. Really demonstrates the critical importance of repeated surveys in threatened species conservation and planning.
Massive rainbow after a storm at Nanya Station in south west NSW. Couldn’t help but smile.
Some solid rainfall in NSW’s south west mallee last week. Enough to encourage burrowing frogs to make their way to the surface. Lots of these little Sudell’s frogs out looking for a mate #wildoz #frogs #desertrain #Neobatrachus
Hot off the press! One of former PhD student and now Dr Ange Pestell's thesis chapters esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Continued cross-disciplinary collaboration is needed to ensure large environmental datasets are available to train & test machine learning algorithms.
End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour now.
As hundreds of thousands of salmon are dying, the PM is throwing public money at the polluting, tax-avoiding foreign corporations, putting them over Australia's people and wildlife.
It has to stop.
Add your name: theaus.in/save_the_skate
It’s been a quiet week of fauna monitoring in far south west NSW. This young knob-tailed gecko (Nephrurus levis) was a highlight. Adults can get up to ~10 cm. This one was around 5. Those eyes… #WildOz
Pie-dish beetles (Helea spp.) are so cool. They use their exaggerated flanges a bit like a shield to fend off predators. We see lots of them in the mallee #Coleoptera #WildOz
The mallee of south west NSW is a magic place at twilight. Heat still radiating off the sand. Birds winding down for the day.
Maybe try Alana de Laive (miss_varanus on Insta)
Common brown butterfly (Heteronympha merope) on this morning’s walk. Fluttering its last as it lay on the path. Typically lots around Albury at this time of year.
Get ready for goosebumps, this is my FAVOURITE moment from the 2024 @marinemammalogy.bsky.social conference held in Perth, Western Australia.
#whale
Christmas Bells right on cue in Royal National Park . . .
That’s pretty cool! @drdave.bsky.social
A tiny shiny emerald green wasp waits by a hole on an insect hotel for a wasp to lay an egg. She will then lay hers, which will eat all the food left for the other one.
This beautiful, tiny cuckoo wasp (~8mm) has been loitering around my insect hotel, waiting for a suitable wasp to lay an egg. Once laid, she will then lay hers, which will hatch first and eat all the food left for the other wasp.
#wasps #insects #nature #backyardbiodiversity #kleptoparasitism
Thanks for sharing the pic. So wonderful to see it on a proper bookstore shelf for the first time!
I’m here!
And this cracker by Helen Waudby @euanritchie.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social et al.
Tiny wildflowers still waving their heads above the drying grasslands of the NSW Riverina. Bindweed, mallee fringe-lily & yellow rush lilies.
A cuckoo bee from memory 🙂
Buy @hpwaudby.bsky.social’s book, it’s full of cracking yarns www.publish.csiro.au/book/8128/?f...
Whoa! I'm feeling very satisfied, accomplished and just so deeply rewarded by this simple reality. The proof has arrived and it's everything I hoped it would be. I had next to no sleep last night but as of tomorrow I will be doing a final edit and then, it will be on sale. #birds #birding
Great to be back out in the field after 7 months of parental leave. Listening to the water birds fussing about and bell frogs calling at Gayini on twilight was a bit magic…
