The Research and Recovery of Endangered Species (RARES) Group. Evidence-based conservation for Australia’s most poorly known threatened species.
Joined April 2022
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20 Apr 2022
Hello, we're a research group specialising in some of Australia's most poorly known threatened species. If you're into #science, #conservation, #wildlife, and especially #birds then perhaps give us a follow! Or learn more here - raresgroup.com.au/ Thank you!
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RARES Group retweeted
29 Nov 2023
Uncomfortable truths about black throated finch conservation from @april_reside at #AOC2023
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29 Nov 2023
RT @Dr_Rob_Davis: Great talk by Nigel Jackett on the elusive Northern Masked Owl. Stunning slide showing all of Australia’s masked owls tog…
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RARES Group retweeted
29 Nov 2023
Buttonquail time! Patrick Webster from @RaresGroup on the buff-breasted button-quail… the only Aussie bird never photographed and with (currently) no known population. 🤔
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RARES Group retweeted
29 Nov 2023
How can we avoid misclassification mistakes for rare birds? Nick Leseberg w/ the @RaresGroup AOC2023 #wildoz
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25 Aug 2023
Finding the elusive buff-breasted button-quail relies on essential museum archives #australianbirds #threatenedspecies #conservation
abc.net.au/news/2023-08-24/b…
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27 Jul 2023
More important work by RARES scientists, this time by the indefatigable Nick Leseberg- Establishing effective conservation management strategies for a poorly known endangered species: a case study using Australia’s Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) link.springer.com/article/10…
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RARES Group retweeted
26 Feb 2023
Have you seen The Red? Australia's red goshawk once ruled the skies. But now this almighty raptor has become our nation's rarest bird of prey. @cmaccoll @UQscience writes @ConversationEDU about the first comprehensive population assessment.
theconversation.com/australi…
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20 Feb 2023
Please read these important, though startling, results from @CMacColl comprehensive population assessment of the Red Goshawk, Australia's rarest raptor #threatenedspecies #conservation #WildOz #Australianbirds #Extinction #raptorresearch
20 Feb 2023
New research published today reveals the extinction and ongoing loss of Australia’s rarest bird of prey, the #RedGoshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus), over two-thirds of its historical range in just the past four decades…. doi.org/10.1080/01584197.202…
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11 Nov 2022
Thanks to the persistence of RARES researcher @Turnix_PWebster, we are happy (though actually sad) to report that the Queensland Government has now accepted our submission for the conservation status of the Buff-breasted Button-quail to be uplisted to Critically Endangered.
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30 Oct 2022
Tireless field work by Pat Webster finds Painted Button-quail are actually distributed throughout southern and central Cape York.... at least! See article here -
birdlife.org.au/afo/index.ph…
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2 Aug 2022
PhD opportunity in the RARES Group working on the most evolutionary distinct and globally endangered (EDGE) bird in the world, the plains wanderer! A thread: edgeofexistence.org/species/…
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2 Aug 2022
The student will be part of a team of land managers and researchers who are collaborating to improve conservation outcomes for the plains wanderer in Queensland and will work together with the First Nations peoples of western Queensland.
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2 Aug 2022
Applications close 31 August 2022, and the preferred start date is 1 January 2023. For more info contact Nick Leseberg: n.leseberg@uq.edu.au
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Daniella Teixeira: d.teixeira@qut.edu.au
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14 Jul 2022
New paper out by the RARES team! Critically important work to better manage the threat of feral cat predation on one of Australia's most endangered birds, the Night Parrot #conservation #threatenedspecies #nightparrot publish.csiro.au/WR/WR21123
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10 Jul 2022
New paper out by RARES scientist Patrick Webster explaining why his study species the Buff-breasted Button-quail hasnt been reliably seen for 100 years!! #BuffbreastedButtonquail tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1…
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RARES Group retweeted
12 Jun 2022
Two very happy fellows who have just found their second #RedGoshawk nest in three days! For context, I didn't find one in the first 3 years of my PhD!
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27 May 2022
Watch this fun 3 minute skit our fearless leader @cyclonewatson shot for the ABC program Behind The News discussing the Threatened Species app
abc.net.au/btn/classroom/thr…
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RARES Group retweeted
13 May 2022
"The Red Goshawk has all the equipment for survival: great speed, manoeuvrability, enormous talons, and physical courage in attack. It should be a very successful bird. It is, instead, disappearing"
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