Adult male Australian King Parrot sitting on deck railing and having a snack from a metal bowl. Males have a vibrant red head, chest and belly, with green wings, back and tail. The wings have a raggedy strip in a lighter green. Not as large as a cockatoo, but bugger than the rosellas and lorikeets.

061 – #SmallJoys

It's been 3 months since this shy fella visited.

We had proper seed this time, so he stayed a little longer.

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Beautiful #moth. #auswildlife

Also, a Pheasant Coucal doing its weird, skulky thing on my street. Love them. Weirdos. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1692 #auswildlife #inaturalist

Pacific Baza in my hood the other day. A lovely bird of prey. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5261 #auswildlife #inaturalist

spotted this big girl on my wombles today, perched in the centre of an absolute cathedral of a spider-web.

i love how neatly she's stashed her snacks.

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country roo minding its business

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Beautiful Koala crossed the road in front of us and climbed a tree in Linville, Qld
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Common tree-snake. So beautiful. #Brisbane #AusWildlife #inaturalist

Fence dwelling spider. #auswildlife

A photo of a chestnut teal moving across the water surface. A chestnut teal is a type of duck with a vibrant brown body and a green iridescent head.

A chestnut teal swimming about after a light rainfall
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Harry Potter and the Disenchanted Wildlife: how light and sound shows can harm nocturnal animals A Harry Potter nightwalk experience at a wildlife sanctuary on the Mornington Peninsula has raised concern for wildlife. Evidence suggests the fears are well-founded.

Seems our Perth Hills council wants to host a Harry Potter: Forbidden Forest Experience in a well-loved bushland park this winter.

Locals are rightly very worried! Light and sound shows, unless they are well-located, can harm wildlife.

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theconversation.com/harry-potter...

#birds 🪶 #birdwatching #birdphotography #birding #BirdingIsForEverybody #LetsGoBirding #LowCarbonBirding #nocmig #vismig #ornithology #birb #birbs #borb #borbs #ausbird #australianbirds #ausbirds #australianwildlife #auswildlife #canberra #mulligansflat #welcomeswallow #canonr7

New ban on dangerous rodent poisons is lifeline for our native animals Rat and mouse baits are an everyday product. But these chemicals can persist in the tissues of rodents that eat them for months and poison native animals.

I really didn't think this would finally happen in Australia. Our country has the worst record for species extinction on the planet.
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theconversation.com/new-ban-on-d...

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on More than 20,000 sq km of coast has succumbed to Australia’s first bloom of toxic Karenia cristata algae – and scientists worry it could explode again

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #australia #algalbloom #SAalgalbloom #auswildlife #marinewildlife #kareniacristata

Cats kill our <5kg mammals & birds, this is 150 y old brick I discovered 700 mm deep under steps, 1871 house Bendigo.
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A photo of a common bronzewing, which is a species of pigeon that has feathers which refract light. Some leaves are impeading around it.

A common Bronzewing waddling through the forrest
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#Morning #NewDay #nature #auswildlife
#Australia ❤️

Good Morning

Red Belly Black Snake

Our trees are chipped for cardboard. Here's cardboard used to create some of the unique mammals Australia is losing.
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A picture of a Common Brushtail Possum lying on a wooden beam and looking towards the camera. The possum has quite dark fur, mainly grey with some areas of rusty brown, along with a few white patches.

Trichosurus vulpecula - Common Brushtail Possum

One of our nocturnal garden dwellers. The Common Brushtail Possum is endemic to Australia and often seen in built-up areas.

#auswildlife #wildoz #marsupial #possum #WorldWildlifeDay #inaturalist #nature

A white faced herron (brid) within some grass

A White Faced Herron Looking for any bugs to eat!
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Native forest declaration – Bob Brown Foundation It's time to protect our nation’s native forests and their wildlife.

bobbrown.org.au/get-involved...
#australia #nativeforests #stoploggingoldgrowth #auswildlife #wildlifeaustralia #koalas #greatergliders #endangeredspecies
If you live in Aus please sign up to this declaration and demand of PM Albanese and Environment Minister Watt to protect Native Forests now!

A kookaburra percehd on a branch with slightly overcast lighting

A Kookaburra that I was watching hunt, flying to and from the ground finding large bugs. I like how the overcast weather created some very vibrant colours.
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Always nice to get a cool, refreshing drink on a stinking hot day 🔥☀️

This joey still drinks milk from mum’s pouch but has also started investigating the water available around our property💧

#trailcam #auswildlife #wildoz #kangaroo #marsupial #water

Perons Tree Frog is a regular inhabitant in the car port

We get some big female Huntsman Spiders can be 130mm or bigger. This one is about half that size so maybe a male. Anyway they are welcome in the house ... except in the bedrooms 😀

This morning we had two welcome visitors in the house, a Huntsman Spider and Perons Tree Frog, life in the bush

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Profile shot of a skittish sulphur-crested cockatoo with a fully erect crest, perched on a deck railing, with lush green foliage in the background. These critters come down looking for seed, which we occasionally put out. But they are not fully comfortable on our deck, which is the way it should be.

043 – #SmallJoys

Today's visitor is not so sure they actually wanted to visit.

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How sad 😔 Tagging the #auswildlife and #wildoz feeds

This little cutie has been visiting us for a few weeks now. We recently moved the garden camera to see who uses this water bowl and have been able to catch this little rosella a few times.
#crimsonrosella #birds
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#australia #wurundjeriland

A photo of a white faced heron, which is a medium sized bird amongst some tall grass.

A white faced heron searching through the tall grass seeing what it can eat.
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A spotted-tail quoll, alert and facing the camera. It is standing on a cut log.

Our local quoll showed up again and this time I actually managed to get a decent picture. This might be the best thing that has ever happened to me. #auswildlife #wildoz #marsupial #mammal

It’s been a hot few days in the Perth Hills and the bird baths have been in high demand from lots of our garden wildlife.

Like this lovely Bronze Wing, who had a good long bathe today… I think he was in there for at least 5 minutes 🪶💧

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