A birdwatcher and photographer managed to capture the unusual behaviour of two great crested grebes hunting common chiffchaffs.
The grebes would stealthily approach the chiffchaffs (hunting for inverts over the water's surface), catch one, drown it, then swallow it – albeit with difficulty.
The largest and most beautiful #veliger I’ve ever seen!
Shot last week off Bali, far offshore, on scuba, at night, out over the deep abyss.
Breaking: APVMA suspends sale of persistent owl poisons in Australia! We have fought tirelessly for years and after meeting with them last week this is not an outcome we had anticipated! www.apvma.gov.au/news-and-pub...
For those of you who'd like to read it, instead of shaking your fist at half the title, here you go:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
I've never seen a Geat Egret with the dark bill of breeding flush with yellow lores - always blue-green. Structure looks good for Little Egret to me.
Fantastic pic but a Little Egret I think
Pelicans and cormorants in a golden sunset.
Menindee, New South Wales.
Bridget the cat infiltrates the 'Abbey Road' cover shoot and becomes THE definitive fifth Beatle.
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
A moray eel swiming across a coral reef
On a Komodo night dive buzzing with interesting life, l thought this cute little moray was a common species & ignored it. My partner luckily took a few shots: seems it's the little-known Gymnothorax robinsi. Too rare to be in fish books, perhaps the 3rd photo of a live specimen on the internet.
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
We are absolutely thrilled to introduce Clive and Inhancer, a pair caught yesterday in the Macquarie Marshes and fitted with GPS 4G transmitters from Global Messenger. We are immensely grateful to the local landholders, Leanne, Garry and Jet Hall, who were central in making it happen.
Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux
Minister Murray Watttf is going to artificially aerate Macquarie Harbour (surface area a mere 32,000 ha), by burning bulk diesel on a few noisy barges ... in order to subsidise a foreign owned non-taxpaying open water salmon feedlot operation.
Your Labor political party, working for you.
A hypnotic flatworm flowing through the night
Satellite tracking reveals sex-specific differences in the geographical and vertical habitat use of Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Eastern Indian ocean link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outside of Victoria. See what the experts have to say about the discovery:
biodiversitycouncil....
Australian woman, a former police officer, was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the US despite traveling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband.
Is there no end to our shameful behavior?
www.news.com.au/travel/trave...
A new report from the NSW Government shows that the control of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park is working and ecosystems are already showing positive signs of recovery 🌏
Read more: biodiversitycouncil....
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Male Australasian Bitterns are highly territorial in the breeding season. Many are now on their way from the Riverina’s rice fields to coastal wetlands in NSW, VIC and SA for winter. Latest Australian population estimate is only 1300 (+~700 in NZ) but conservation action is building. Glorious birds.
I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
Strong *these* vibes right now.
Classy work ABC radio news, introducing Marianne Faithfull as "Mick Jagger's former girlfriend", referring to her as the inspiration for As Tears Go By & a drug addiction before noting almost in passing her long recording career & outstanding work of her own. Artist as appendage.
Walking Shark.
Sydney - city & nature
This grand spectacle & everyday experience all free & all yours
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