We were on ABC TV! Allison joined host Dr. @jones_ann and friend of the Fairywren Project, Mark Eatwell to visit Mark’s friendly Splendid Fairywrens in the Perth hills. If you missed the program you can catch it on iview - episode 4: iview.abc.net.au/video/SC220…
We won again! Thanks @NYFestivals for the nod and congrats to @jones_ann and team. You watch this exploration of the physics of sound in nature on ABC iview.
Eight new Pacific masked bees just dropped 🐝! What’s really cool about these bees is that (i) they’re mostly restricted to forest canopies, (iii) prefer for red flowers, and (ii) resolve how Hylaeus tuamotuensis got to French Polynesia!
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Incredible to watch tens of thousands of Grey-headed Flying-fox megabats (Pteropus poliocephalus 🦇) leave their roost at sunset to forage for nectar overnight - so many that they're accidentally mapped as rain on the @BOM_au weather radar! 🤯 #wildoz
A pair of brown falcons nest over in the neighbour's pine tree and one just flew over the house with a decent sized snake in its talons.
Now I can hear much happy screeching from the tree top
Penguins fire = bad news.
So we’re changing the habitat in the world’s largest little penguin colony, making it more resilient to climate change. abc.net.au/news/2023-12-19/l…
A few weeks back @jones_ann asked me a seemingly straightforward question which immediately sent me into a spiral.
Come wade into the muddy waters with us as we attempt to answer the question “what is a species?”
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The Bengal florican, a large grassland bird found in Asia, was predicted to go extinct by 2023. It’s now 2023, so what happened? #ProjectWildABC
Bengal floricans like to live in tall grass. But grasslands also happen to be one of the easiest places for humans to develop…
With fewer than 800 wild individuals left, the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity thought they’d attempt a world first. They’ve setup a Bengal florican assurance colony in Cambodia.
So it’s 2023 and the Bengal florican isn’t extinct. Individual birds like this gorgeous little chick have the species’ future riding on thier survival.
Stream Project Wild: Cambodia on @abctv for more of this cutey.
Watch—-> iview.abc.net.au/show/projec…
Traveling with a small but expert crew through Cambodia for #ProjectWildABC for @ABCAustralia
Shout out to all the behind-the-scenes legends who make these programs possible.
Watch their hard work here-----> buff.ly/487SkCw
ALT It's twilight in a city and a woman with a camera stands looking to the sky, one arm out checking for rain
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It’s that special time of year when bitterns in rice start laying their first eggs. An early start means they have plenty of time to breed successfully before autumn harvest. With all this hot weather, the rice rapidly reaches the 55 cm mark that triggers nesting.
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