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)

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Superb Fairy-wren trying to escape my lens... Lamington National Park, Qld
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Welcome Swallow. #birds #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 🤔

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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.
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Little Wattlebird taking off from a casuarina in my backyard. #backyardbirds #birds #WildOz

Female Powerful Owl
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Male Powerful Owl
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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.

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Male Powerful Owl in suburban Brisbane this morning. The female was about 20m away in another tree.
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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.
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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.

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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

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Weedy Wednesday
AW staff visited Tallaringa Conservation Park after recent grading of the Anne Beadell Highway to check on buffel grass. With recent rainfall in the area, more surveillance will be needed to ensure there is no further spread of buffel.

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Top view of a large moth whose wings are a bright lemon yellow with a variable black serrated line near the bottom and with each forewing having two black spots.

Anthela inornata

We are seeing quite a few of these lovely moths at the minute.

They are quite large, with a wingspan of 6-7cm, and can be seen in early autumn in Western Australia and South Australia

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A black and white bird gripping the stem of a Red Hot Poker - a green stem with an orange-red flower.

Through a bedroom window for this one, a New Holland Honeyeater in the much maligned Red Hot Pokers. Yes, an environmental weed in #Tasmania . This year I’ve planted additional natives for the #honeyeaters and, once established & flowering, the Poker will go. #WildOz #Nature #Birding #Wildlife

A Eucalypt tree, with peeling bark with green, brown and yellow hues. Sitting on a branch is a bird - also with green, brown and yellow hues. Directly in front of the bird is a spiders web with water droplets highlighting its shape.

A bit of a dodgy capture through the loungeroom window, on a wet and misty day. A Yellow-throated Honeyeater, endemic to #Tasmania contemplating a spider web in the branches of a eucalyptus, whose trunk has similar hues to the bird. #WildOz #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #SoTas

Common, but rarely-spotted, White-breasted Woodswallows are found across most of Aust, and SE Asia, in small groups along water courses and in coastal mangroves. Related to magpies, butcherbirds & burrawongs rather than swallows, they were first described in 1771 by Linnaeus himself! #birds #WildOz

Top view of a moth with ochre brown forewings that bold white stripes down the. The stripe in the middle is forked towards the base of the wings

The wild weather over the weekend has certainly mixed things up with an influx of different moths into our Perth Hills garden.

This lovely moth is Hednota tenuilineata, a species endemic to Western Australia and a new observation for us.

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A bright blue bird bath set among green bracken. In the bird bath stands a large Black Currawong, with piercing yellow eyes. It is staring at a second Black Currawong that is on the ground. There’s only room for one of them in the bird bath.

Another taken through the kitchen window - our #Tasmanian Black Currawongs appear to be sorting out who has first rights to the #bird bath (with the winner giving the loser an impressive death stare).
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The green leaves and cones of a Wollemi Pine tree, with a small, mainly green bird sitting on one of the branches.

Our Wollemi Pine (one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees, with under 100 left in the wild) is attracting a lot of attention in the garden. It’s the first time I’ve seen the Silvereyes feeding in there in great numbers, & the female cones are being decimated by #birds. #WildOz #nature #birding

Top view of a moth that has brownish-grey patchy wings. The forewings have been concertinaed to make them very thin as have the hindwings.

Phazaca interrupta - the Plain Roll-moth

A new moth for our Perth Hills garden last night and definitely one of the more unusual ones we’ve seen.

This moth concertinas its wings while at rest, giving it this unusual resting posture.

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Sunrise over a tree filled valley with a pinkish peach sunrise showing beneath patchy clouds with a thin layer of mist at the bottom of the valley

Anthela inornata - top view if a large bright yellow moth with a zig zag line across its wings and two darker spots

Pseudanapaea denotata - side view of an orangey pink moth that has long scales at the back of the head and several darker spots in the forewings

Moerarchis clathrata - side view of a moth with a black and orange head, wings that are pearly white with thick black lines randomly across them, and a wing tips that are feathered orange and black

A beautiful sunrise and some spectacular moths… what better way to start a Monday!

Happy #MothMonday!

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Fairy Prion in southeast Australian waters. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #WildOz

Teddy bear bee on basil flowers🧸🌺🐝

#bees #Australia #Sydney #NaturePhotography #AustralianNativeBees #WildOz

Usually this male Powerful Owl doesn't bother with the noises and distractions of an urban roost. As he's been readying a nest hollow and has the female nearby he's become more alert, glaring here at a passing dog. #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owls sleeping. Female on the left. #birds #wildoz

Zomariana doxasticana - small brown moth with four dark markings that partially track the outline of a circle

A Dasygaster sp. - relatively large moth with brown wings that gave a pattern of darker wavy lines

Stegasta variana - new record for our garden- micro moth with forewings that are cream and brown

Oenochroma vinaria - Pink Bellied moth - large moth with reddish brown wings that have a pale yellow line running horizontally and a dark edged white spot on each wing. Wings are slightly blurred as the moth didn’t fully settle

Still very rainy in the Perth Hills but at least 12 species of moth visited our Perth Hills garden last night (along with hordes of flying ants!), including these:

Zomariana doxasticana
Dasygaster sp.
Stegasta variana (NFG)
Oenochroma vinaria

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