Dive into the sounds of Tasmania's wetlands from dusk till dawn...🧵⬆️
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#NatureTrackers' big #news! 🧵
with @btobirds.bsky.social
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Spring into wildlife monitoring action! | Latest news | NatureTrackers National Science Week workshops across Tasmania, September schools visits and more…

Please be part of it! Sign up! And for #NationalScienceWeek there are friendly intros to CallTrackers across Tasmania...
naturetrackers.au/news/spring-...

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📷 Helen Cunningham

...and keep your eyes peeled for VERY exciting news coming soon, about the species we can learn about through CallTrackers acoustic monitoring...

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Tasmanians! Getting into the massive #NationalScienceWeek buzz? Maybe you've already booked into a 'Discover CallTrackers' acoustic monitoring workshop, or 'Bittern Quest'? Details in #NatureTrackers' calendar—see August: naturetrackers.au/about/events...
But ALSO...

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Are You Suffering From Shifting Baseline Syndrome?  | Earth.Org Shifting Baseline Syndrome is a gradual change in the accepted norms for the condition of the environment due to a lack of knowledge of its past condition.

Here are some nice articles on SBS:
Source of the cartoon: fritsahlefeldt.com/wp-content/u...
A little more info: earth.org/shifting-bas...
Conversation article with other angles: theconversation.com/forget-envir...

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It’s *invaluable* to get population trend info, & increasingly so with each year we can add; especially in light of new & changing threats to Tasmanian raptors. Find out more via the link⬆️; & if you'll be in #Tasmania in May, pop the WWW dates in your diary now: 9-11 & 23-25 May.
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Small green acoustic recorder set up on a light, portable pole, with forest and a creek surrounded by wetland (leading into Tooms Lake) behind.

We have 2 months left before the end of the season, and we're currently quite short of surveys.
Read what's involved, then book a square and a recorder: naturetrackers.au/projects/cal...
Questions? Just give CallTrackers HQ a hoy.

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A dark green bioacoustic recorder is in the foreground, cable tied to a slim pole. Behind is wetland vegetation and a creek leading into a lake, and forest rising up a slope all round the right hand side of the lake and towards the viewer

…picking up a #CallTrackers acoustic recorder. The echidna showed no sign of noticing me - the dream nature observation.
*And* the @btobirds.bsky.social
#AcousticPipeline
call recogniser tentatively ID’d 3 bat species in the recordings.

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Rarely seen and hardly ever heard, secretive 'bunyip bird' spotted breeding for the first time in 40 years The endangered Australasian bittern likes to keep a low profile and experts think there may be fewer than 1,000 left in Australia, but it's now been spotted with chicks in unique wetlands still recove...

A beautiful story weaving the CallTrackers project together with wetland restoration & an extremely happy birder: details of the Australasian bitterns' return to Tasmania's Lagoon of Islands www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04... including a nice video with more info
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On #WorldWildlifeDay, #NatureTrackers join with organisations around the world to imagine a #WorldWithoutNature. In Australia and around the world, nature is in crisis. We have to take action to tackle this crisis: all life on earth depends on biodiversity.

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