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pezoporus.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. in Wildlife Conservation at Edith Cowan University. Birds, herps, rodenticide impacts on wildlife. Living on 5 acres in Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar country. www.wildlifelab.org
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Another view of this beauty the Chuditch, captured in a live capture cage trap on our property. This is why I don’t use lethal traps like the Goodnature trap which doesn’t discriminate against native wildlife.

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Dunlin is the biggest loser in Southern Lowlands of Iceland. Breeding numbers down 60% in eleven years. Blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i... Paper (Aldís Pálsdóttir et al): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... THREAD #ornithology

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

OMG everyone!! You won’t believe what I just caught! After 9 years on our property, the holy grail animal that I thought we had no chance of seeing just entered my cage trap that I use for rats. Meet the Chuditch (Western Quoll). Released safe and unharmed this morning. I am still in shock.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

A friend encountered during my weekly early morning bird surveys at Perth Zoo. This is a Western Brush Wallaby, endemic to SW WA.

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That time when a lot of rare scarlet-chested parrots showed up at Gluepot and the normally sleepy reserve became like Grand Central Station as birders from all over descended to see them 😆 These turned out to be remarkably confiding. A joyful experience to see (at last!).

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Generator appreciation post. With the power likely out for 2-3 days due to the big storms, I’m thankful for this investment that has paid for itself many times over. She may be noisy but she keeps us living the good life in times of crisis. Ps. Yes one day we will get solar batteries

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

One year on from the great storm which spurned a tornado and downed trees all over our property and we got hit by a supercell tonight. The figs have taken a big hit but other infrastructure OK

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Another article about our recent research showing how rat baits are killing Australia’s native carnivores. This piece shows how Bunnings is not willing to take any action on the issue. au.news.yahoo.com/calls-for-bu...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Great piece on our new research highlighting the severe impact of using second generation anticoagulant rodenticides. We are killing quolls snd Tasmanian devils when we poison rats. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

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For 7 years we have been studying how rat poisons affect native wildlife. Our initial work focussed on owls, then we found it in reptiles and today we have released our world first study showing it is killing Australia’s threatened quolls and the Tasmanian Devil. theconversation.com/lethal-secon...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Fig update. Just visited the neighbours for a few tomatoes and came back with these! Fig jam for all!

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Golden hour in the front garden.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

It’s fig season! Today was a fig degustation with friends - cheese and figs entree, fig, bocconcini and prosciutto pizza, fig and smoked chicken pizza, a fig salad then fig flan for dessert.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

[please share widely!] We have two PhD positions available at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: [Position 1] Birds, hybridization, genomes, island biology, biogeography, sexual selection 🦚, w/ me, Knud Jønsson, Martin Iredstedt and @stelkens.bsky.social et al recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

It begins! Fig season 2025

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Cool native bee Rozenapis ignita (previously Megachile ignita). Thanks to Dr Kit Prendergast for the ID.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Not bad for about 2 sq metres of garden bed. Now how do I use this many onions? 🤣

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

Put in a water bath for the Black-Cockatoos but the kangaroos have made it their home in the hot weather and resent me filling it up because they have to move 🤣

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

10 PM and at 34C it’s hotter than Singapore right now (27C). Scorcher of a day in which Geraldton, WA recorded 49.3.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Well I didn’t think that experiencing a house shaking earthquake would be on my list of Sunday experiences.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

A stunning Indian Ocean sunset followed by Comet C/2024 G3 streaking across at perihelion. What a great start to the weekend.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

There is a symposium happening on Monday 20th Jan, titled "SEYCHELLES ENDEMIC #AMPHIBIANS AND #REPTILES: CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND NEXT STEPS FOR #CONSERVATION". We will be streaming the talks if you can't be here: Link tinyurl.com/Seychelleshe... or use QR code. Nb. Schedule is Seychelles time. 🧪🐍🐸🔬

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments