#wildoz

WA Orchids

@wa-orchids.bsky.social

1 hour ago

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

Wilderness Society

@wilderness.org.au

6 hours ago

The swift parrot’s distinctive call was recorded dozens of times in a patch of Tasmanian forest. Then the forest was logged Scientists estimate the endangered bird’s population has slumped to about 750. But the logging agency responsible for clearing its habitat said it acted lawfully

🚨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

Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

8 hours ago

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

Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

1 day ago

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

WA Orchids

@wa-orchids.bsky.social

1 day ago

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

Mitchell Whitelaw

@mtchl.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy

1 day ago

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 […]

Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

1 day ago

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

Eve ❀˖°🐝

@eveinoz.bsky.social

3 days ago

Kookaburra in autumn sun 🐦☀️

#kookaburra #LaughingKookaburra #birds #WildOz #sydney #australia #BirdPhotography

Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺

@doktrnick.bsky.social

3 days ago

Powerful Owl pair in a suburban Brisbane park this morning.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz

Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

3 days ago

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

Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

3 days ago

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

Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

4 days ago

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

Tranquility Found

@divinedropbear.bsky.social

4 days ago

Superb Fairy-wren trying to escape my lens... Lamington National Park, Qld
#birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #wren #fairy-wren #WildOz

Leo

@leo-in-merimbula.bsky.social

5 days ago

Welcome Swallow. #birds #WildOz

Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

5 days ago

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

Tranquility Found

@divinedropbear.bsky.social

5 days ago

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

Leo

@leo-in-merimbula.bsky.social

6 days ago

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

Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺

@doktrnick.bsky.social

6 days ago

Female Powerful Owl
#brisbane #birds #wildoz

Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺

@doktrnick.bsky.social

6 days ago

Male Powerful Owl
#brisbane #birds #wildoz

Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

6 days ago

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

Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺

@doktrnick.bsky.social

6 days ago

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

Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺

@doktrnick.bsky.social

1 week ago

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

AW Landscape Board

@awlandscapesa.bsky.social

1 week ago

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

Wilderness Society

@wilderness.org.au

1 week ago

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

Jack Ashby

@jackdashby.bsky.social

1 week ago

A damp #wombat searching for juicy grass shoots to nibble amongst a sea of tough alpine coral fern.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats

Threatened Species Index

@aus-tsx.bsky.social

1 week ago

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

AW Landscape Board

@awlandscapesa.bsky.social

1 week ago

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.

#wildoz #buffel #wons

Aussie Moths

@wa-moths.bsky.social

1 week ago

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

#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist

Sarah Durrant

@sarah-d.bsky.social

1 week ago

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

Sarah Durrant

@sarah-d.bsky.social

1 week ago

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