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Went overboard at the ant buffet? 🐜🦎
We joke, but this is likely a gravid (pregnant) female Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus).
Learn more about Thorny Devils:
📸Joshua Keen
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👀👀 Can you believe your eyes?
The team at at Monjebup experienced a jaw-dropping moment last week when they peered into a nest box only to discover a Southwestern Spiny-tailed Gecko cosied up with a family of Western Pygmy Possums! 🤯🤯
📸 1: Kelsey Lambert
📸 2: Alex Hams
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Phil Palmer spotted this
#Platypus
at our Liffey River Reserve in Tasmania! As you can see, Platypuses are expert swimmers using their webbed feet to propel themselves and their tails to steer through the water 😊
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The Honey Possum - cutest animal in southwest Western Australia, or perhaps the world!
The world's only truly nectivorous (nectar-eating) marsupial, with a diet of nectar and pollen. 🐭🐭
Pic by Jacki Smith on Monjebup reserve, Noongar country
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Morning magic at Hamelin Reserve, Malgana country. ☀️ 🦜
This stunning flock of budgerigars were out in their hundreds last week, filling the sky with waves of bright green and yellow.
Captured beautifully by reserve manager Michelle Judd.
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Pure pink preciousness!
A Pink Robin photographed by Charles Davis in Kosciuszko National Park this weekend.
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
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😱 An incredible capture of a slightly unusual looking Red-tailed Black Cockatoo in Bunbury, WA by photographer Rob McLean 👍
The bird's striking plumage is thought to be the result of a genetic mutation opposite to albinism called leucism.
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Is Pippa Australia's bravest ecologist? Watch her incredible reaction when faced with a cranky King Brown 🐍 during fauna trapping at our Edgebaston Reserve in QLD - watch to the end!
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Happy Monday from the teeniest, tiniest baby Jan's Banded Snake (Simoselaps bertholdi). We hope this brightens your week. 🐍
📸Ben Parkhurst, Eurardy Reserve, Nanda Country.
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Something to cheer those Wednesday morning blues away...a stunning pair of Mulga Parrots! Photo taken by Bush Heritage ecologist Ben Parkhurst at our Eurardy Reserve in Western Australia. Aren't they just gorgeous?
@ParrotOfTheDay
@BirdlifeOz
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The world’s only true nectar-eating marsupial, Honey Possums need a year-round supply of nectar. 📷 Ross Bray
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Totally amazing Shield Shrimp filmed at Bon Bon Reserve by Bush Heritage Project Officer Kate Taylor ❤️❤️❤️
Bon Bon received 40mm of rain recently - the single biggest rainfall event the reserve has seen in a decade!
Life has popped up everywhere including in the clay pans...
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Leaving work at 5pm Friday be like... 🦘🦘
A very bouncy Red-tailed Phascogale is released during monitoring at our Kojonup Reserve, Noongar country in Western Australia.
Credit: Bas van der Ploeg
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ICYMI: A venomous Bandy-bandy (or Hoop snake) (Vermicella annulata) - spotted on the road to Carnarvon Station Reserve in Queensland
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Lockdown diet's going really well thanks for asking...😏
How chunky is this Thorny Devil?
Thorny Devils (Moloch horridus) are slow-moving ant eaters 🐜 that can change colour to blend into their surrounds, appearing mostly grey, red, orange or yellow 🌈
Photo by Joshua Keen
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'Build it and they will come.' 🏠
With the help of volunteers, we've strategically placed nesting boxes around revegetated patches of Monjebup Reserve, Noongar country in south west WA. Now many are inhabited by these Western Pygmy Possums! 🐭
Photo by Jessica Stingemore
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Daily
#HoneyPossum
content. They love to drink nectar, they’re teensy-weensy and we defy anyone to find them not cute! 💕💕💕
This one, a female, was papped out at our reserves in the Fitz-Stirling region of south west WA. More content to come!
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Look at that SNOOT!!! 😍😍😍
How can you not be in love with the Honey Possum? It’s the only truly nectivorous (nectar-eating) marsupial IN THE WORLD!!!
The Noongar people in south west Western Australia know it as the Noolbenger ❤️💛🖤
Photo: Rob McLean
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EAT YOUR GREENS 🥬
A Grey Falcon (Falco hypoleucos) with a Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) snack!!!
Photo taken at Cravens Peak Reserve, Wangkamadla country by Gina Zimny
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Spot the
#TawnyFrogmouths
! Thanks to Mick Bobin for the pic - he was working in his garden in Cawongla, NSW for quite some time before noticing the birds!
#wildoz
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DYK? The Honey Possum is a key pollinator species in the landscape - using its long, brush-like tongue to collect pollen & nectar. They can drink up to 7ml of delicious nectar daily, which is the equivalent of a human consuming 50 litres of soft drink!!
📷 by Ross Bray
#WildOz
🐾
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The beautiful Yellow-footed Rock Wallabies at Boolcoomatta gathered in front of the motion sensor cameras for their family portrait 📸
Learn more about this reserve and the native flora and fauna it protects 👉
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📢📢This is Evelyn Downs – the property we’ve been searching for in South Australia.
It’s the around size of the ACT & a giant opportunity to give nature a fighting chance. Help us write history👉
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HOLY.... CROSS FROG!🎚
This beauty was spotted on a frosty morning at Naree Station Reserve in NSW by Greg Carroll.
It’s one of the few species of Australian frogs with skin patterning that does not provide camouflage, but instead acts as a vivid warning against predation ⚠️
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Help
#SaveAussieWildlife
by taking the Bush Heritage survey. You could win a $100 voucher!
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A recent shot taken by a remote sensor camera of a large emu mob on Boolcoomatta Reserve, Adnyamathanha & Wilyakali Country, SA! These photos are becoming more common due to a successful breeding seaso
Pic by our South Australian Arid Rangelands Ecologist, Graeme Finlayson.
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Baby Night Parrot ahead! Spotted on our Pullen Pullen reserve in QLD - breeding a sure sign the bush is in good health
#yearofthebird
@ParrotOfTheDay
@firstdogonmoon
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Did you know Budgies are big drinkers? The camel of the bird world, a Budgie will consume 5.5% of their body weight daily.
Download the latest Bush Buddies Activity Pack to learn more about budgies:
📸 Helene Aubault
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Before & After: These two photographs - captured in 2003 & 2011 from the top of a windmill at Mirrica Bore on Ethabuka Station Reserve in far western Queensland - show just how profoundly our landscape management can transform landscapes.
More on Ethabuka:
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An endangered
#NightParrot
fledging has been spotted on Pullen Pullen Reserve - the first in 100 years! Photo by James Watson
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Growing to 125cm & 5kg Spotted-tail Quolls are the largest native carnivores on mainland Aus (excluding Dingoes).
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A Western pygmy-possum perched on a flower at Chereninup Creek Reserve, Southwest Australia.
📷 by Paul Evans
#WildOz
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One of our most exciting stories of 2016: "First fledgling night parrot spotted in nearly 100 years"
Via
@CTBCC_JCU
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Say hello to the Rakali, the charismatic critter once unfairly known as the 'Water Rat'! 🐀🌊
Rakali's are a semi-aquatic marvel.
Let's give them recognition they deserve and embrace their remarkable adaptability! 🦦💙
📸Vanessa Burdett
📸Carolyn Hall
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A rest between hops. 🐭
A Spinnifex Hopping Mouse (Notomys alexis) having a relax on the palm of one of our field staff on Pilungah Reserve, Wangkamadla Country.
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Bird of the Month time - the swift Parrot! Vibrant, high-speed, nectar lovers from Tassie
#YearOfTheBird
#ParrotOTD
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We’re protecting wombats - the Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat - on Bon Bon Reserve (South Australia)
#WildOz
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This Little Long-tailed Dunnart (Sminthopsis dolichura) and her kittens were captured during a fauna survey at Bon Bon Station Reserve. They may look like mice, but Dunnarts are actually carnivorous marsupials that eat invertebrates and reptiles! Photo: Kate Taylor
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🐦❤️🔥
Two Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus funereus) captured on Scottsdale Reserve, Ngunawal Country, NSW.
While they like to spend time in larger groups, these cockatoos mate for life, and are often spotted in pairs, enjoying 'couple time'.
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Posing while we confirm the ID: a Mulga Dragon (Caimanops amphiboluroides) 🦎 - on the right page of Harold Cogger’s “Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia” - during recent fauna monitoring surveys at Charles Darwin Reserve.
📷 by
@RichardMcLellan
#WildOz
#reptiles
🦎
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Homeschooling: Emu style!
DYK Emu chicks stay with their dad for up to six months after they are born? He's responsible for teaching them essential bush skills (foraging and survival).
Photo by our Arid Rangelands ecologist Graeme Finlayson at Boolcoomatta Reserve
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We're flying into Friday like this Red-tailed Black Cockatoo! Our ecologist Ben Parkhurst snapped this cheeky fella at our Eurardy Reserve in Western Australia. Red-tailed Black Cockies are an active and raucous species often seen in large flocks
#happyfriday
#cockatoo
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💕PRETTY IN PINK 💕
This exquisite bird is a
#PinkRobin
, native to Australia's south-east.
We think
@BirdlifeOz
describes it best: ‘A small tubby bird...quieter than other robins. The first indication that it is nearby is its characteristic tik, tik, tik."
Pics:
@ewster
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It's a phascogale miracle!! 🐭🎉
Study results are in, and the phascogales on Kojenup Reserve, Wagyl Kaip & Southern Noongar Country, southwest WA are genetically diverse enough to thrive into the future without further translocations.
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“Beautiful plumage!” … You can see why they’re sometimes referred to as the ‘Many-coloured Parrot’: a male and female Mulga Parrot (Psephotus varius) on Eurardy Reserve in midwest Australia.
📷 by
@BushHeritageAus
ecologist
@ParkhurstBen
#WildOz
#birds
@ParrotOfTheDay
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Also called the Crucifix Frog or Crucifix Toad, this special species is also one of the few Australian frogs to display aposematism – the use of bright colouration to send a warning signal to predators. Pic: Dave & Sue Akers 3/3
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We didn't think being this cute was even POSSUMble...
Photo of a Western Pygmy Possum taken several years ago during fauna surveys at Monjebup Reserve, Noongar Country in revegetation areas.
📸Kieran MacFarlane
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The rarest of sights as an endangered
#NightParrot
fledging takes flight on Pullen Pullen Reserve. Photo by Nick Leseberg
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Twitter, please meet Polly-nator 🌷🌼🌻
A delightful Honey Possum (Tarsipes rostratus) - the world's only truly nectivorous (nectar-eating) marsupial - caught candidly on camera by
@J_Stingemore
at Chereninup Reserve, Noongar Country in WA, during annual fauna surveys 🤩
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The varied patterns of nature. 🐍
This elegant curve was created by an unknown species of snake on Bon Bon Reserve, Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara country.
📸Sara Petrovic
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Happy Mother's Day to all the incredible marsupial mums out there! 🦘
Read our new article, 'The wonders of marsupial parenthood' about marsupial joeys in their first weeks and months of life.
📸Sally Bryant
📸Steve Parish
📸Remote sensor camera
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The Golden-shouldered Parrot is a totem species for the Olkola people (central Cape York Peninsula) 📷 Geoffrey Jones
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Faced with the impending loss of two blocks of forest in lutruwita Tasmania in 1991, Bob Brown asked his friends to help him buy the land rather than let it be woodchipped.
It's our 30th anniversary this month. If you’ve been thinking about becoming a supporter now is the time.
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A Jan’s Banded Snake by Sam Fischer at Bon Bon Station Reserve, South Australia for
#WorldSnakeDay
🐍🐍🐍🐍
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In light of recent fake news here are Night Parrot FACTS
•There are independently verified confirmed Night Parrots at our Pullen Pullen reserve - we bought in 2016
•Calls recorded there this week
•Fledglings there 2016-2018
•Our science is robust
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Waddling into Wednesday.. 🦔
This purpose-driven Echidna was captured walking across the bridge that crosses over the Liffey River at Oura Oura Reserve, Tasmania.
Reserve manager Michael Bretz managed to capture this with two cinematic camera angles!
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SPOT THE PLAINS-WANDERER!
They're small, they're well-camouflaged and there's estimated to be less than 1000 remaining in the wild...
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....and in the case of these native wildflowers how could you see anything BUT beauty!
Carpets of Everlastings are currently blanketing our Charles Darwin Reserve on Badimia country, WA.
Thanks to Reserve Manager
@J_Stingemore
for the pics
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Morning sun through White Gum (Poplar Gum) 🌞
A grassy open forest, floodplain of the Herbert River, Yourka Reserve, Jirrbal & Warrungu country.
📸Wayne Lawler
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60 Swift Parrots recorded feeding at Tarcutta Hills Reserve on Wiradjuri country in southern New South Wales.
📷 by Richard Taylor
Via
@wild_ark
#WildOz
#birds
HT
@teamswiftparrot
@ParrotOfTheDay
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Waddling into the working week like this parade of Echidnas!
Camera trap photo taken by one of our monitoring cameras in the Fitz-Stirling region, south west Western Australia, Noongar country
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We are incredibly pleased to announce today a multi-million dollar donation from US philanthropic groups
@earthalliance
+
@Global_Wildlife
to further our bushfire recovery efforts and restore damaged ecosystems following the Black Summer bushfires 🌱
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Gorgeous manna gum trees (Eucalyptus viminalis) at our South Esk Pine Reserve in Tasmania. Also called a ribbon gum because its upper bark sheds in long 'ribbons' during summer.
#NationalEucalyptDay
#EucBeaut18
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It's official! Thanks to your incredible support we managed to raise the full purchase price of Evelyn Downs – soon to be our largest reserve EVER! 🎉
Learn more about Evelyn Downs 👉
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Not your usual pigeon. 🕊️
As its name suggests, the Spinifex Pigeon (Geophaps plumifera leucogaste) lives amongst spinifex grasses in arid or semi-arid central and northern parts of the country. ☀️ ☀️
📸Rod Hartvigsen
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The magnificent Dark Emu, or Great Celestial Emu constellation 🌌🌟
Can you see it? 👀
📸Dr. Rebecca Diete
📍 Budjiti Country, north-west NSW
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Good news alert! 11 Plains-wanderers recorded at Boolcoomatta!
In a recent field trip, our team experienced an exciting Plains-wanderer party at our Boolcoomatta Reserve on Adynamathanha and Wilyakali country in South Australia.
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Wet season food was scarce for Cape York's Golden-shouldered Parrots so we built predator proof feed stations.
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Can you spot those little eyes? 👀
Those are the eyes of an incredibly unique marsupial – the Honey Possum, or noolbenger. You may have noticed, but we simply can’t get enough of these ones!
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Bug soup! 🐛 🐜 🕸️ 🐞 🦋
This footage was captured by our ecologist Pippa Kern after just one night of
#pitfalltrapping
on our Edgbaston Reserve in central Queensland 😵
Pitfall trapping allows us to examine species occurrences & distribution patterns, among other things.
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Biodiversity transformation vol. two! 🌏 🌳 🦘
Mirrica bore, Ethabuka, Wangkamadla Country, QLD, five years apart, during and post-cattle grazing. This shows the extent of change that is possible when a landscape is nourished and protected.
📸 Murray Haseler
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🔦SPOTTED🔦 on Eurardy Reserve, Nanda Country for a second year …a Western Quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii), or Chuditch.
This marks a return of the species for a second year!
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It’s World Biodiversity Day! 🌏 🌳 🐟
Monjebup Reserve, Noongar Country, southwest WA before and after an extensive and complex revegetation project in one of the most biodiverse regions on earth.
📸Simon Smale
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Visit a wetland on
#WorldWetlandsDay
and see what you can do to help protect these threatened ecosystems and their complex wildlife communities.
Wetlands are a conservation priority on many of our reserves. 🐸
#WorldWetlandsDay
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Hot, dry and harsh? Yes! Barren and empty? No! 🌞🐍
Read our new blog: Four Reptiles that can brave the desert
…
📸Photos from Birriliburu IPA & Ben Parkhurst
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We're loving the burning reds in this photograph of a bearded dragon taken at Bon Bon Station Reserve, Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara Country, SA
🔴 🚗 🍎 🔺
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The Hairy-footed Dunnart is so small that it lives in the burrows made by spiders & bull ants!
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A beautiful, and very agile, Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby - one of the Species we’re protecting on Boolcoomatta Reserve.
📷 by Wayne Lawler / EcoPix
#WildOz
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How exciting is this? Finding a new and active Malleefowl mound in six-year-old revegetation - blog by Angela Sanders at Monjebup Reserves in Southwest Australia
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For everyone out there looking for Easter eggs ... here’s a clutch of Emu eggs on our Carnarvon Reserve in Queensland.
Female emus can lay up to 15 eggs at once.
📷 by Wayne Lawler/Ecopix
#WildOz
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We've chosen the marsupial of the week - the Hairy-footed Dunnart (Sminthopsis hirtipes)! 🐭
They're so small that they live in burrows made by spiders and bull ants!
Learn more:
👉
📷Ben Parkhurst
📍Eurardy Reserve, Nanda Country, WA.
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Oh me oh my!
Our Boolcoomatta Reserve Manager Kurt Tschirner stumbled on this glorious Sturt’s Desert Pea (Swainsona formasa) - the second ever record of this species on the reserve!!!
What a 2020 find.
#peasforever
#boolcoomatta
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Dunnarts are closer to Quolls and Mulgaras than mice. Some can eat their body weight in a single night!
#WildOz
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It's raining nectar! ☔🌼 Did you know that the delightful Honey Possum, or Noolbenger, is a vital pollinator for a variety of native plants like banksias, grevilleas, and other native wildflowers? 🌺🌿
📸Katelyn Reynolds, Monjebup Reserve, southwest Western Australia
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Is this my best side? Young Wedge-tailed Eagle photo-bombing one of our remote wallaby-monitoring camera traps
Monjebup Reserve, WA
#WildOz
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#TwoWayScience
: Acknowledging all of the Traditional Owners with whom we work and learn from all around the country
#WomenInScience
#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
@WomenScienceDay
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 🎉🎈
Our New Year's resolutions are to continue protecting our precious native species (just like this Ooldea Dunnart!) and irreplaceable landscapes 👍 What are yours?
Photo by Tamara Potter at Bon Bon Station Reserve, Antakirinja Matu-Yankunytjatjara country
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How utterly amazing is this native
#Mistletoe
?! 😍
Found in Western Australia, this species - Nuytsia floribundam- is called Moodjar by the Noongar Traditional Owners.
It is also dubbed the Christmas tree because it bursts into bloom in December!🎄
📸 by Richard McLellan
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Every now and then, a plant species like this Parakeelya (Calandrinia sp.) will remind us just how astronomical our planet is ✨
Photo by Erica Siegel.
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A beautiful photo of a Honey Possum feeding - at Yarraweyah Falls - one of our neighbours & partners in the Gondwana Link regional restoration project in the Southwest Australia Biodiversity Hotspot.
More on Honey Possums:
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The creatures of Hamelin Reserve, Malgana country. 🐭 This reserve, 250km north of Geraldton, WA, is a treasure trove of diverse species. 🌊🌊
Here we have the irresistibly cute Little Long-tailed Dunnart, captured by Annette Ruzicka.
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A thirsty little lizard 🦎 at Bon Bon Station Reserve in South Australia.
In wetter times, sleepy lizards get some of their moisture from flowers, fruits and insects, but this one didn't shy away from a drink in the height of summer.
🎥: Bon Bon Field Officer Sam Fischer
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Malleefowl are monogamous & mate for life (approx 15 yrs). Couples spend most time together & breed annually.
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