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doktrnick.bsky.social
The Tawny Frogmouth chick and its papa this morning.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
Tawny Frogmouth chick and its papa in their nest
November 3, 2026 at 12:57 AM
lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social
This was the first Powerful Owl I ever heard, and then saw. I'm very lucky to go out and see so many POwls. You're probably not supposed to have favourites, but this one is probably not so secretly mine. #birds #wildoz #brisbane
November 2, 2026 at 10:18 PM
geoffm59.bsky.social
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme: #GoldenSun

Here’s a male Yellow-tailed black cockatoo basking in the afternoon gold.

📍Gembrook, Victoria.

#birds #wildoz #ozbirds #birdsinbackyards #parrots
Male Yellow-tailed black cockatoo basking in the golden afternoon sunshine.
November 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
geoffm59.bsky.social
Only brief glimpses of floofy featherage (and a mighty stink eye) here in Mt Waverley.

#birds #wildoz #ozbirds
A Tawny frogmouth disdainfully looks down from its roost as fluffy feathers of its young chick are seen poking out from its protective wings & chest..
November 2, 2026 at 3:30 AM
hagatha42.bsky.social
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aunz.theconversation.com The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 1d
A ten-year study of short-nosed bandicoots found their family tree is more complicated than we thought.
Two new bandicoot species discovered after trawling through museum drawers
theconversation.com
November 2, 2026 at 3:29 AM
doktrnick.bsky.social
The Tawny Frogmouth nest on my street has a baby! Yesterday, I could see some light fluff, but the male adult was sitting on it firmly. Today he decided to let it out.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
Baby Tawny Frogmouth and adult.
November 2, 2026 at 12:26 AM
awlandscapesa.bsky.social
Mammal Monday
This curious dingo was snapped as it checked out one of our trail cameras at Mungala. Dingoes are an important species in the AW region, environmentally and culturally.

#dingo #wildoz
November 1, 2026 at 10:33 PM
geoffm59.bsky.social
I understand that posting of nests is frowned upon but the level of blending detail afforded by this Eastern yellow robin is next level. Marvel.

#birds #camouflage #wildoz #ozbirds
Eastern yellow robin atop its nest. Cup shaped and tucked into the fronds of a large fern, the nest has been adorned by stands of a leafy creeper in a (very good) attempt to mask its location.
November 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
divinedropbear.bsky.social
Galahs at their hollow in a tree beside the Balonne River, St George, Qld
#birdphotography #Ozbirds #birds #birdwatching #birding #birds #wildoz #BirdingQueensland #ornithology
November 1, 2026 at 8:41 PM
harryheadbanger.bsky.social
#Beetles
#WildOz
I found this green flower beetle in the bathroom yesterday, it didn’t look healthy.
Today it was moving around and looking fit, water and some rest?
it readily climbed up my hand, I went out to the garden and it finally took off from my arm.
Ischiopsopha wallacei

Townsville
An electric green beetle on my arm facing slightly to the right, trying to navigate my hairy arm, it has an oval head and what looks to be some serious mouth parts.
November 1, 2026 at 10:54 AM
leo-in-merimbula.bsky.social
Sooty Tern on Lord Howe Island yesterday. #SuperSeabirdSunday #BirdOfTheDay #seabirds #WildOz
November 1, 2026 at 8:03 AM
susanmccreery.bsky.social
A small selection of what's flowering now in local bushland, including bonus beetle.🪲

South coast NSW.
#FlowerReport #OzPlants #WildOz
Hairy fan flower (Scaevola ramosissima). Five-petalled purple flower with hairy leaves. Callicoma serratifolia, one genus, one species. Known as black wattle (tho it's not an acacia). Fluffy cream flower heads. Climbing guinea flower (Hibbertia scandens). A buttery yellow five-petalled flower with a fluffy centre. This is a tea tree (leptospermum). I think it's L. polygalifolium. Five-petalled white flowers with green waxy centres. There is a long-nosed Lycid beetle on one flower (native to eastern Oz).
November 1, 2026 at 6:49 AM
effinghardy.bsky.social
Look at this giant 😃.

This particular guy (sun orchid) has been appearing each season alongside this succulent for years. It is as long as my arm this year, and the stem is rivaling the size of the plant.

#WildOz #plants #orchids
(Almost every other green blade in there is an onion orchid.)
Hand behind a yet to bloom stem of orchid buds. There are about 19 buds. The hand is held vertically and spread widely but not stretched out, and the buds go from the tip of the pinky to level with the tip of the thumb. Looking into and across the messy top of the plant pot, a tangle of green blades like grass are growing through leaf mulch and the aerial roots of the succulent growing back into the dirt. One green blade is many times the size of the others. The twisted and woody stem of the succulent is about as thick as a pinky, and a few centimetres to the side is the green straight stem of the orchid. It's the same width, coming out of the ground it is red and it changes to green after the first few centimetres.
November 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
ecosystemunraveller.com
Time for another #AwesomeBirds #WildOz edition. This chatty chappy will be familiar to many, their ascending chattery call featuring in soundscapes across the country. Their appearance is just as distinctive, easily seen in the understory as the flit about in their perpetual quest for insect prey.
October 31, 2026 at 10:26 PM
wa-orchids.bsky.social
Elythranthera brunonis - Purple Enamel Orchid

Viewed from the back, you can see all the lovely spots and blotches the cover the backs of the Purple Enamel Orchid's petals and sepals 💜

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿
A Purple Enamel Orchid viewed from behind showing the lovely spots and blotches that cover the back of the petals and sepals. The blotches are all bright pinkish purple in colour
October 31, 2026 at 9:57 AM
wa-moths.bsky.social
We nearly missed this beautiful Dichromodes sp. moth because it was so perfectly camouflaged against the almost white sandy soils of Yelverton National Park in the southwest of Western Australia

#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist #camouflage
Top view of a moth with dark and pale patches across its forewings sitting against the almost white sandy soils of a National Park in the south of Western Australia
October 31, 2026 at 9:36 AM
lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social
A new chick! Yesterday we went to check on this pair of POwls that we'd first seen last year. Having decided they, like a few other pairs had not bred this season, it was a wonderful surprise to see we were wrong. First known chick for this pair! #birds #wildoz #brisbane
October 31, 2026 at 2:57 AM
divinedropbear.bsky.social
An Eastern Osprey with catch of the morning
(Pandion haliaetus)
#birdphotography #Ozbirds #birds #birdwatching #birding #birds #wildoz #BirdingQueensland #ornithology
October 30, 2026 at 10:40 PM
divinedropbear.bsky.social
Australian Ringneck sighted at St George, Queensland
#birdphotography #Ozbirds #birds #birdwatching #birding #birds #wildoz #BirdingQueensland #ornithology
Australian Ringneck sighted at St George, Queensland #birdphotography #Ozbirds #birds #birdwatching #birding #birds #wildoz #BirdingQueensland #ornithology
October 30, 2026 at 10:36 PM
geoffm59.bsky.social
Superb!

#birds #superblyrebird #wildoz #ozbirds 🪶🦉
Image is of a Superb lyrebird scratching the forest floor for insects. An unsurpassed mimic this iconic bird of the bush is highly elusive oft heard and seldom seen.
October 30, 2026 at 8:43 PM
wa-orchids.bsky.social
Endemic to Western Australia, Heart-leaf Poison was first described in 1811 and then featured in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine in 1820 (Plate 2212, Vol 58), where it was described as a “handsome shrub” 🌿

#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #sciart
Botanical drawing of a branch with pea-like flowers Page of text that accompanies the botanical drawing and which provides a brief paragraph about the Heart-leaf Poison
October 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
wa-orchids.bsky.social
Gastrolobium bilobum - Heart-leaf Poison

This shrub might be beautiful when in flower, but it's also highly toxic. The leaves, flowers & seeds all contain high levels of fluoroacetate, which is poisonous to non-native animlas.

#ozflora #wildoz #Fabaceae #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿
Picture of a whorl of orange pea-like flowers all clustered together at the top of a branch. Behind the flowers, the leaves of the shrub can be seen
October 30, 2026 at 12:03 PM
doktrnick.bsky.social
The other parent of the Powerful Owlet was also in the same tree.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
Adult Powerful Owlet sitting on a branch.
October 30, 2026 at 3:52 AM
doktrnick.bsky.social
Another new Powerful Owlet! This from a pair we found near the river a couple of years ago. This is the first time they've been known to breed. We still need to figure out where their hollow is.
#brisbane #birds #wildoz
Powerful Owlet sitting on a branch with an adult looking over its shoulder from behind.
October 30, 2026 at 3:52 AM
lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social
The female sibling of a pair of Powerful Owlets in a Brisbane park. #birds #brisbane #wildoz
October 30, 2026 at 12:33 AM