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greyfantail.bsky.social
Birder, ecologist, nerdfighter 🇦🇺
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Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender

Jean Shrimpton: Victor of the Battle of Melbourne #therestishistory

By the way - just to make clear for those who may not quite understand my history and feelings on the matter, my enthusiasm for electric vehicles does not extend to Those Ones.

#climatesky

The 2025 duck hunting season has begun. We are deeply concerned for this season due to ongoing declines in eastern Australian waterbird populations. We will continue to monitor wetlands and won’t give up our decades-long fight to end native duck hunting. 📢 www.actforbirds.org/bird-hunting...

Wear y’all damn sunscreen PLEASE

'Girls and women accounted for three quarters of all incidents and were a third more likely to be physically attacked than boys and men.' sickening report on increase in Islamophobic attacks in Australia www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

Planning on building "feral pig consumption per square kilometre" as a measure into all new research projects. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

just screamed “what the fuuuuuuuck” in my apt bc my worlds collided a bit, sorry to my neighbors (ft @100percenteat.com @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social)

Australia Stands Apart As Global Shark Populations Decline The country bucking the worldwide trend through strong fisheries management, offering a model for conservation. www.forbes.com/sites/meliss...

Them: The best Star Wars show is back! Me: They’re making another season of Rebels?

🚨Join BirdLife Australia and Birds New Zealand for the 2025 Australasian Ornithological Conference (AOC) in Boorloo/Perth from 18-20th November! 🚨 We’re inviting submissions for symposia topics and would love to hear your ideas! For everything you need to know, visit: aoc.org.au 📸Aaron Brown

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Past research and future directions in understanding how birds use their sense of smell | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Darcy Creece, Rafael Freire, Melanie Massaro | #ornithology

Very excited that my review on the sense of smell of birds has finally been published! #birds onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you need a break & Netflix is available to you, I highly recommend sitting down for an episode or 2 of High On the Hog, about Black food in America. It's absolutely gorgeous, centering not only food but also Black history, identity, resistance, community, ingenuity, creativity, imagination & joy

Randwick Council is complaining that they shouldn't have to repair the statue on an annual basis, perhaps they could save their ratepayers money and just get rid of it? #auspol

Take comfort in the thought that one day, Donald Trump will be dead. And the rest of us will have one hell of a party.

We're hiring: Senior Advisor First Nations Open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants, we’re looking for a passionate individual to lead our efforts in integrating and elevating First Nations knowledge, perspectives, and leadership in conservation. birdlife.org.au/about/work-w...

A lot of people complain about the noise and destructiveness of corellas, but I love them. Long-billed Corella, North Albury, NSW 🪶

Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie because it had a guy sliding down a long tube.

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen is a truly underrated ripper of a song!

Pretty fucked up that Jimmy Carter lived to see Wicked Part 1 but not Part 2

I have made a helpful guide so that you can know approximately when your signed preorder of Everything Is Tuberculosis was signed. Copies 1-10,000 were signed in green, 20,000-30,000 in blue, and so on. You can preorder your signed copy at everythingistb.com

Yes, I’m a woman in STEM (shitty posture, tired all the time, perpetually dark eye-bags, miserable)

Feral horse lovers are nuts, they're stooping to racism to try and justify their own idiocy, and even when ordered to apologise by VCAT are refusing to do so 😡 Feral horses don't belong in national parks! #auspol

Remember when @australianlabor.bsky.social came to power in 2022 and @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social talked a big game about ‘ending the neglect’? I remember. You’ve betrayed Australia’s biodiversity and our future, @albomp.bsky.social.

A pair of Pink-eared Duck cruising on a dam. The pink ear can be hard to see, I prefer their other nickname: Zebra Duck 🦓🦆 Sturt National Park, NSW 🪶

in my last Stardew save, I married Leah, who gave me salads and coffee and mushrooms. I married Abigail this time, and she just gave me a BOMB

It's nice to see even the Labor faithful are disappointed in this outcome, however Felicity Ward is a fool if she thinks the Greens demands to include forestry and climate change in the EPBC are 'fanciful'🫤

This photo of nesting Sulphur-crested Cockatoos feels like it could be an album cover. Taken at Wonga Wetlands, Albury, NSW 🪶

Y'all ever tried dragonboating? It's awesome! ❤️🐉

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

JUST BOUGHT TICKETS TO STARDEW VALLEY SYMPHONY OF SEASONS GONNA PEE MY PANTS IM SO EXCITED

Pied Stilt foraging in the wetlands, Whyalla, SA #birds

Australian Pratincole, foraging on the gibber. Near Milparinka, NSW 🪶

A little Red-backed Kingfisher catching the last few rays of the day, Newhaven Reserve, NT 🪶

I keep seeing posts telling me to "GO VOTE!!" Unfortunately however, I, like many others, am not a US citizen #americavotes

Common Bronzewing, watching quietly from a tree. Jindera, NSW 🪶

I don't see any ads in my daily life, and whenever I see one it's so jarring that I can't believe other people actually put up with them

The sleepy little Boobook Owl was snoozing in the rafters of a shearing shed. Moorwatha, NSW 🪶

This juvenile New Holland Honeyeater was happily foraging for insects amongst the mulch. Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT 🪶