Ecology #PhD student at Uni of ADL. Peripheral pursuits: watching birds, books on birds, photographing birds, tweeting bird tweets.
Joined February 2013
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Tom Hunt retweeted
15 Apr 2024
In the past few days I've seen 29 Swift Parrots flying through my conservation property in North East Victoria and another 4 here at home in Melbourne. So thrilling...until it hits that I have just seen 6.6% of the remaining population. We need strong new #Naturelaws now!
ALT Swift Parrot feeding on lerp in a suburban park in Bayside Melbourne, April 2021.
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Excited to learn more about Norfolk Island Moreporks from @FlossySperring who's just finished her PhD on the little beasts 🦉 Love the inclusion of an Auslan interpreter for these sessions too @AOC2023BRISBANE 👌
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Tom Hunt retweeted
13 Sep 2023
Ever wonder just how smart parrots can be? Our paper TODAY shows individual designs of sound tools regularly used by wild Palm Cockatoos. It took me 4 yrs to find all the rare, drumming 'Rockatoos' and 256 drum tools. Pics & story 👇
royalsocietypublishing.org/d… #PalmCockatooProject
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Tom Hunt retweeted
18 Jul 2023
Drumming behaviour by a Palm Cockatoo! Banging away with his homemade drumstick 😍. Being endangered, small population, wary of humans, and in a remote area, this image is the result of 8 weeks worth of hard work, so I hope you all like it loads! #PalmCockatooProject
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Tom Hunt retweeted
15 Mar 2023
10 animals that depend on eucalypts to celebrate #NED10
1. Greater Gliders (endangered) feed almost exclusively on Eucalyptus leaves and buds. They nest in big eucalypt hollows.
#NationalEucalyptDay #LoveAGum
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Tom Hunt retweeted
30 Aug 2022
Mistletoebirds waggle post-poo to help the mistletoe seed in their poo to stick to the branch. Sticking mistletoe seeds to branches helps ensure the #Mistletoebird has food in the future once the seed germinates and produces the next crop of fruit. #WildOz #RememberTheWild #birds
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Tom Hunt retweeted
12 Aug 2022
This week we translocated kowaris to @AridRecovery. We are hoping the move to our safe haven will improve the chances of survival for this threatened species.
It's hard not to fall in love with this face.
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A joy to see the 100 species of trees, shrubs, forbs and grasses we planted doing so well. Can't wait to see the habitat layers forming in a few more years 😍
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Tom Hunt retweeted
19 Jul 2022
"Making this film was a real journey. I remember the moment we finally captured footage of these amazing birds in daylight, after being up all night tracking them for three days in a row." - Chris McC, RTW MD #theplainswandererfilm, a thread
#birdtwitter
rememberthewild.org.au/plain…
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What a cracker trip @CNZdenek! Best spot in the world with the best company 💯 Palm Cockatoos and Fawn-breasted Bowerbirds are a bonus 🙃
16 Apr 2022
Throwback to 7 years ago. Here's Tom Hunt (@moth_nut) and I playing the waiting-game part of fieldwork on Cape York together. Fun times! Pic by C. Garai.
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Tom Hunt retweeted
24 Apr 2022
‘Worst it’s ever been’: a threatened species alarm sounds during the election campaign – and is ignored theguardian.com/environment/…
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Tom Hunt retweeted
5 Apr 2022
There were 180 Swift Parrots seen here in 2009. I would have loved to have shown them to the members of the NSW Upper House inquiry into native forest logging to whom I’m appearing as a witness for @BirdlifeOz but this Spotted Gum forest has had the life logged out of it.
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Tom Hunt retweeted
21 Feb 2022
Not to be outdone by the pelicans, the Red-necked #Avocets we have fitted tracking devices to have also packed their bags and departed the #Coorong following the rains in central Australia. #ProjectCoorong #RoamingMothUpdate
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Tom Hunt retweeted
21 Feb 2022
My last tweet was about me being covered in #pelican vomit and poo, so that seems a logical place to kick the update off. Through my work on #ProjectCoorong, I have now put tracking devices on 11 pelicans. #RoamingMothUpdate
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Tom Hunt retweeted
21 Feb 2022
What have those #pelicans been up to in the last two months? Very interesting things. Some are breeding doing multiple trips to and from the North Pelican Island breeding colony. #ProjectCoorong #RoamingMothUpdate
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My entry for the #TSBakeOff this year: and Eastern Regent Parrot. Found along the Murray in SA and Vic, they're threatened and only 1500 pairs remain. The base is a gluten-free chai spice cake with plumage courtesy of dried pineapple, kiwifruit, pawpaw, prunes, and blueberries.
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Tom Hunt retweeted
4 Aug 2021
Because the phenomenon at the centre of our new paper is so mind-blowingly awesome, we wrote a @ConversationEDU article so more people would learn about these amazing #centipedes.
theconversation.com/giant-bi…
Full paper: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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Tom Hunt retweeted
27 Jul 2021
Can you believe it has already been four weeks since the last day of the 2021 Frahns Farm Planting Festival? We've had more than 45mm of rainfall this month, which is great news for our 2021 seedlings! 💚🌿🌱
#conservation #bior #southaustralia #treeplanting #habitatrestoration
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Tom Hunt retweeted
16 Jun 2021
What a privilege it is to hold one of these beautiful #birds. To feel their racing heart beat gives a true sense that they are brimming with life. #ProjectCoorong 📸:@taaprowse
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Thanks for letting me ramble on about bird sounds @birdlifeoz! Was great fun putting this together for #DawnChorusDay
3 May 2021
Yesterday, our friend and ecologist @moth_nut took us on a very special outback dawn bird walk in celebration of International Dawn Chorus Day. If you missed it, just head to the story highlight "Dawn Chorus Day" over on our Instagram to join in the fun – with Budgies galore!
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