For those of us who love a good doco, Youtube has a channel just right for Australia, and it's all done with humour and Gen Z language. Very engaging, ride the pause button to catch the bits you laughed over.
https://www.youtube.com/@the-Backyard-Naturalist
#WildOz #documentary
A red Kangaroo Paw native Australian plant, with a small black, white and yellow bird perched among the flowers, looking at one bloom which it likely intends to get a feed from.
Taken through the lounge room window, a New Holland Honeyeater enjoying a top spot on the Kangaroo Paw, where it looks as if it’s already selected the next bloom it will feed from.
#WildOz #Birds #Birding #Nature #Wildlife #BackyardBirds #SoTas
Male Powerful Owl with a Ringtail. Yesterday he also had a Ringtail, and at dusk his partner flew over from a few metres away and they had dinner. After that they flew to a nearby tree and mated.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
Banksia sessilis or Parrot Bush, a plant with spiky leaves and dome-shaped creamy-yellow flower heads
Dichopogon capillipes, a plant with a pink and purple flower that hangs down
Stylidium repens or the Matted Triggerplant, a plant that grows close to the ground with thin spiky leaves and small pink flowers that have a floral column on a trigger
Hakea petiolaris or the Sea Urchin Hakea,a small tree with groups of flowers that form cream and pink/purple spherical balls like pom poms
In the Perth Hills we are now in the Noongar season of Djeran, a time when the hot weather has passed, the nights are now cooler and some flowers start appearing (IDs in ALT)
#ozflora #wildoz #autumn #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
🚨Exposed: A major Bunnings timber supplier has been linked to logging in critically endangered swift parrot habitat 🦜
#Bunnings claims it’s committed to Responsible Timber Sourcing, yet this revelation could mean what’s on the shelves is timber made of critical habitat for the #swiftparrot. #wildoz
Top view of a moth with wings that are generally an emerald green and which have a pattern of brown and white markings around the wing border
Eucyclodes buprestaria - Bordered Emerald
An Australian Emerald moth found across the southern half of Australia.
The caterpillars of this species are known to feed on the delightfully named Slender Snotty-Gobble (Cassytha glabella)
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Top view of a moth with satin white wings that have thick reddish orange lines down and across them
The change of the season was marked this morning by the arrival of the first Angled Satin Moth (Thalaina angulosa) of the year.
We see these stunning moths in the Perth Hills between April and June.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Just over a year on from the bushfire that burnt through 5,300ha of bushland north of Perth, regeneration of the area is continuing. Autumn flowers are starting to bloom and butterflies are visiting 🦋
#ozflora #ausinverts #wildoz #butterflies #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
New work out! Mosaic uses images, sound, video and data to build a portrait of a western NSW wetland.
It's an experiment in environmental data-storytelling and using #conservationtech for public engagement. With waterbirds galore, feral critters and livestock, it's also an attempt to show the […]
Top view of a moth whose wings have a a bold black and creamy white pattern across them
The autumn nights are definitely getting cooler in the Perth Hills… down to a rather chilly 11°C last night 🍂
Still a few brave moths about though, including this rather lovely Scoparia exhibitalis.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Kookaburra in autumn sun 🐦☀️
#kookaburra #LaughingKookaburra #birds #WildOz #sydney #australia #BirdPhotography
Picture of a beetle which is generally blueish in colour and which has largish mandibles
Top view of a beetle which is generally blueish purple in colour and which has largish mandibles
Carenum sp. (possibly Carenum occidentale)
A beautifully coloured predatory ground beetle which is endemic to arid regions of Western Australia. This guy was hanging out under our moth trap last night 🪲
#ausinverts #wildoz #Coleoptera #Carabidae #beetle #inaturalist
Side view of a large moth hanging from a dry stem. The moth is green with brown markings on the sage and across the middle of the forewings. She has long green scales resembling hair at the back of the head
Aenetus djernaesae - Marie’s Splendid Ghost Moth
Spotted this stunning female Ghost Moth (Hepialidae) in a coastal area around 150km north of Perth last night. This species appears to be endemic to Western Australia.
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Sunrise over a coastal dune showing a peachy pink sky over gently rolling green covered sand dunes with low lying smoke from a bushfire visible
Grammodes ocellata, the Large-eyed Box-owlet
Armactica conchidia
Armactica conchidia
Currently in an area characterised by coastal dune systems and we’re seeing a good diversity of moths including:
Grammodes ocellata - the Large-eyed Box-owlet
Armactica conchidia - both female (bottom left) and male (bottom right)
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Superb Fairy-wren trying to escape my lens... Lamington National Park, Qld
#birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #wren #fairy-wren #WildOz
Eucyclodes buprestaria - emerald green moth on a beige stone wall
Large plume of smoke and clouds over a controlled bushfire
Just had the biggest number of moths visit our moth trap that we’ve ever seen. There must have been 400+ moths along with several new species.
There was a large bushfire near us yesterday, not sure if that contributed to the bumper numbers 🤔
#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Magpie siblings deciding who will be more dominant or just brothers arm (leg) wrestling? The one on the left is usually more dominant. Their sister watched on from the sidelines. They stayed in this position for over 2 minutes.
#birds #magpie #birdwatching #birdphotography #australianbirds #WildOz
Side view of two moths, one much larger than the other. The larger moth has white wings with a pattern of black and red patches across them. It is facing a much smaller moth that is brown in colour. Zooming in shows that the much smaller moth has several patches of raised scales making it look quite spikey.
It's always nice to bump into a friend
This beautifully coloured Heliotrope Moth (Utetheisa pulchelloides) was sitting face to face with a very tiny and rather spikey looking Leptozestis sp. moth at our moth light recently.
#teammoth #mothfacefriday #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist
Male Powerful Owl in suburban Brisbane this morning. The female was about 20m away in another tree.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
My favourite Powerful Owl pair in the late afternoon yesterday. They are definitely gearing up for breeding season, roosting close together only about 30m from a nest hollow tree.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
Buffelpalooza!
AW’s Jess Burdon and Paula Modra visited Mparntwe (Alice Springs) for the NY Government’s buffel get-together. Paula and Jess gave a presentation on AW’s work, and other presentations covered different management styles for buffel across the region.
#wildoz #buffel #wons
Day of the Species brings together an extraordinary collective effort to document all 2,105 plants and animals on Australia’s national threatened species list.
📍 On view 2-20 April at Botanic Gardens of Sydney, 11am-5pm daily. Free entry.
👉 More info: facebook.com/events/2180727469403500 #wildoz
A damp #wombat searching for juicy grass shoots to nibble amongst a sea of tough alpine coral fern.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats
A Pink-tailed Worm-lizard.
For this #WildlifeWednesday is the vulnerable Pink-tailed Worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella). These worm-like lizards can grow up to 24cm and spend much of their time in burrows made by ants or termites, feeding on the eggs and larvae of the ants inhabiting the same burrow!
📷 Geoff Heard
#WildOz
