Ricki Coughlan 🦜
@RickiCoughlan
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🦕 Herbivore 🦜 Birding Guide at Aussie Wild 🦥 Educator Sydney Zoo 👩🔬 she/her 🗣️ Views my own 🎙️ DM for speaking/media enquiries
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I transitioned when Posie Parker and Katherine Deves were literally wearing nappies. Whilst they were in 5th grade I was part of the generation of women who, through actions small and large helped create the opportunities they enjoy today, so no, I won't be hearing them 'speak'.
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@MrWinMarshall
@spectator
Australia is generally an easy going, welcoming and diverse nation and we know when to mind our own business. Posie Parker was ignored when she came to make trouble here because we recognised that she was trying to appropriate feminism to spread hate. It's really that simple.
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As an elder of the Australian trans community I am deeply hurt by the Prime Minister's response to Piers Morgan's questioning. Let's make no mistakes here, Albanese's failure to call out the hate which is implicit in the question 'what is a woman'... 🧵
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This illustration has been a long time coming. I began it some years ago and finally finished it today . . . Crested Pigeon (one of my faves).
#birds
#nature
#adobeillustrator
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What humans have failed to grasp is that the 3.5 billion year long story of life on earth is littered with millions of extremely successful species which are now extinct because the environment which created and fostered them changed. This is the rule and there are no exceptions.
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@billybragg
All this rubbish going on over in the UK and meanwhile, so many trans kids going through our system here with few issues if any and then there's folk like me who transitioned in 1980 at age 21 and have had an amazing life. Anti trans folk are just hateful fascists, nothing else.
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@news_australian
Fairly sure Julia Gillard beat her to that title. I would support Sussan Ley working in the role as an assistant in a Kmart self serve checkout area rather than any public office.
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I leave you tonight with some stills from today's excellent Echidna encounter at Barren Grounds Nature Reserve.
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Happy
#TransDayOfVisibility
to all my trans siblings and allies from me and Snappy. Always remember that in a highly diverse species, difference is normal. It's called 'being an individual'. Be proud, joyful & kind and make this world a better place 🏳️⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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There's nothing more enticing than a beautiful tall misty forest full of bird song in the morning . . .
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It's awful coming here every day and seeing 'Rowling' and 'Gender Critical' trending. I transitioned in 1980 and have had a wonderful life full of opportunity. I will stand against bigotry and bullying to my last breath to ensure every trans kid enjoys the same as what I have.
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Great news! All the Platypuses which were part of the rewilding program on the Hacking River in Royal National Park have survived the massive flood and remain in their territories. We can reasonably presume that the puggle, which wasn't fitted with a tracker has also survived.
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I asked 109 thirteen year old students today to raise their hands if they had ever walked in a forest. 11 raised their hands. I asked them to raise their hands if they walked in a forest regularly and there were no hands. I see no grounds for hope.
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Yet another chunky Angophora costata, Sydney Red Gum, tree hug for
#thicktrunktuesday
#eucbeaut
#trees
#nature
#WildOz
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There's so much hate here I was going to leave Twitter tonight. If I do, I can't continue to speak up for my people, share and receive stories from nature and sell my bird books 😏 I have two coming out this year: Little Brown Birds and The Bark Foragers. 🧵 1/
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Here's a chunky Angophora costata, Sydney Red Gum, tree hug for
#thicktrunktuesday
#eucbeaut
#trees
#nature
#WildOz
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I got a bit of a tree hug in today . . . bonding with this Turpentine, a mighty old friend in the forest.
#nature
#treehugger
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HRT since February 1980 (aged 21) . . . Parents of trans kids, don't for a moment believe that your kids don't have amazing futures waiting for them, full of adventure and opportunity, with abundant health, friendships and love.
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Whoops, I totally forgot 'Black Friday' and enjoyed these Christmas Bells on a rainy morning in Royal National Park instead . . .
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I've always used point and shoots or in recent years iPhones to get my butterfly images. Today I ordered a 55-200m zoom for my Canon EOS M50 Mark II for this purpose and look forward to capturing even more butterflies in higher quality. img: Imperial Hairstreak breeding frenzy.
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⚠️🦜 Help to STOP the spread of disease 🦜⚠️
NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service advise that there have recently been multiple reports of mass mortalities of Rainbow Lorikeets across greater Sydney and the Illawarra. 🧵 1/7
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Friends, my heart is broken. Where is the beautiful world of inclusion and love that we spent decades trying build? When I was growing up in the 60's there were so many messages in our culture about building a better world but instead our children built a shambolic mess of hate.
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Jacqui Mumford EO of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW speaking at the rally today in support of the petition to end logging in our precious native forests. It's time to end this destructive travesty.
#nature
#WildOz
#environment
#ForestsForAllForever
#forests
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I am considering releasing a very large poster of the artwork for the birds I'll be using in the book when I release Little Brown Birds of the Sydney Region, in a couple of months.
#birds
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Elon can have his imaginary wealth. Give me the wealth of love of nature and wonder amid the natural world's beauty and complexity any day. Here's a site where I'm observing the breeding and nesting behaviour of a pair of Yellow-throated Scrubwrens.
#nature
#bird
#birdwatching
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When looking at this image from an article on the Thylacine this morning I couldn't help but think this is exactly how people will one day see us as we dither over and lie about unabated climate change and factory farming and the rape of our oceans. He is us.
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Opal is one of our beautiful Sydney Zoo Koalas. Koalas don't sweat, so during this heatwave most of them have been hanging their arms and legs like this. This exposes their palms and soles to the air and, by increasing blood flow to these areas this helps cool them.
#naturelovers
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@SenatorThorpe
That was Stonewall, not Australia. Take care not to misappropriate the place of trans women for your cause. There were no out trans folk in the first Mardi Gras, we were far too oppressed and marginalised (by the law, police and society) to even try that on in Sydney in 1978.
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I'm finalising the illustrations for my coming book 'Little BrownBirds of the Sydney Region'. Here's the Yellow-throated Scrubwren, which features the adult male and female in perching and forest floor mode. The portrait illustrations include a juvenile female, far left.
#birds
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I had so many magical encounters surrounded by this stunning rainforest today. I can't remember when I was so deeply touched so many times by the bird song, diversity and behaviour or enjoyed birding more . . .
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The local Dharawal people call this month Ngoonungi - Murrai'yunggory. It's when the flying foxes begin to appear in numbers and Waratahs decorate the forests. For me it is when the first Forest Brown and Brown Ringlet butterflies appear and Brown Gerygones start nesting.
#nature
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I haven't said a lot about the World Athletics ban on trans women in Track and Field but, as a global pioneer for transgender women in the sport, I was devastated at the announcement. As a result I no longer support elite athletics, it's simply a transphobic institution.
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@JaneCaro
Thank you Jane. It seems ridiculous for me to even have to say this, I had a tough and confusing time as a child but I transitioned in 1980 when I was 21 (the legal age you could do this at the time). I've had an amazing life full of adventure and opportunity ever since.
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Whilst climbing this rainforest hill in Royal NP this morning I was regaled all the way with the haunting beauty of the Bassian Thrush song. I consider this bird to be among Australia's finest singers. You can meet this bird and hear its song here:
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was a failure of leadership which throws trans women under a bus and further emboldens the voices of hate who are unashamedly calling for the eradication of transgender women in our society. 👇
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Has anyone else noticed that the majority of haters who flock to transphobic posts are men? Even in kindergarten I noted how fiercely boys would gatekeep gender, because they feared their lofty place above girls could be threatened by any deviation from the norms they policed. 1/
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Eucalyptus pilularis/Blackbutt tree hug in Hacking River Valley, Royal National Park.
#thicktrunktuesday
#naturelovers
#WildOz
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There's nothing that isn't gorgeous about a walk in the Sydney bush. To be surrounded by the gorgeous holobiont - an ecology in deep communication - the birds, butterflies, bird song, frog calls, the 'plopping' of berries dropping into the river . . . 🧵 👇
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Me and anyone else who knows themselves to be a woman and lives that truth, carrying both its joys and its burdens through their every waking moment! That's who. Lift your game
@AlboMP
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It will be at least the year 60,202AD before white Australians have lived on this continent for as long as aboriginal Australians had at the time of colonisation.
If the Minerals Council of Australia has a 'voice to parliament', surely aboriginals must have a Voice too.
#Yes23
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I really don't know what all the TERFS/GC's/Transphobes that I keep encountering on Twitter are on about. It seems that they can't deal with people living their best life . . .
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I've dropped in for a visit but can see things remain fairly bleak here. To cheer things up, I'll just post these Red-backed Fairy-wrens from my Little Brown Birds book. I included them because they may stray into the Sydney region more frequently than we know 🧵 1/3
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There are places which are so far away and so long ago where a little piece of my soul remains. A little part of me is still there every sunrise in the tall grass by the soak on Cheese Tin Creek in north west Australia . . .
#birding
#nature
#wildoz
#wildearth
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My next blog, due out very soon, will be titled ‘Welcome to the Holobiont’. I went shooting a few fungi today for content in a stunning rainforest . . .
#fungi
#mushrooms
#nature
#wildoz
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@Plant_Treaty
@GeorgeMonbiot
Also, somebody invents a lie like "regenerative grazing" and then dozens of science and researchers have to devote thousands of hours to check those claims and then thousands of others have to spend years pushing back on what becomes entrenched BS.
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One of the great nature experiences in this world is the mimicry of the Superb Lyrebird. Sadly this recording is ruined by aircraft noise. On weekdays aircraft noise is almost constant over the iconic Royal National Park. This should never be allowed.
#birds
#nature
#pollution
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@MoiraDeemingMP
@VictoriaPolice
You share the same genocidal beliefs about a small minority that those Nazis do, which is why they turned up . . . in solidarity. What you were there for today has nothing to do with 'rights'.
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Today I'll be voting YES for a bigger, more open hearted Australia, a more generous, grateful, kind and helpful nation, where we all walk together, helping each other to be our best selves and reach our full potentials as humans and a nation.
#VoteYesAustralia
#YesToVoice
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@JonDeeOz
The people who roughed the Senator up and pushed her were two of the thugs associated with Posie Parker. The woman in red appears to have committed an assault on the Senator and should be brought in.
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Female Superb Lyrebird foraging in Royal National Park today. I'm about to put together my birding tours for 2023 but if you'd like a personal tour in the RNP or elsewhere around Sydney, drop me a DM. Visit my site:
#birds
#birding
#birdwatching
#nature
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The scrubwrens around Sydney tell us a fascinating story of how birds of the same foraging guild evolve in form and behaviour so they can live side-by-side without directly competing with each other. Learn more and meet them in my "Bird Watching" course:
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When I meet people on the rainforest trail they tell me that they visit here to 'destress', or 'unwind'. I tell them 'No, you come here to connect' and they invariably nod and reply 'Yes. That's it.'
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In 2022 I joined others in a meeting with Dom Perrottet. I told him when I was 15 I experienced 10 days of conversion therapy (shock treatment) in a hospital as my parents wanted me 'cured' and our family doctor recommended it. 🧵 1/
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This is how a leader responds to homophobia and transphobia . . . 👏👏👏
Once again, Victoria's LGBTQI+ community and entertainers have come under attack by hate groups - this time out in my neck of the woods, the City of Monash.
And it's more than just placards and yelling - some councillors have received death threats.
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More of the butterflies which I got on Curra Moors yesterday. Clockwise these are: the Black Jezebel, Brown Ringlet, Hairy Line Blue and Meadow Argus. Meanwhile the migration of Caper Whites has crossed Port Hacking and engulfed my neighbourhood.
#butterflies
#nature
#WildOz
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Australian Logrunners are a hard get in Royal NP as it's near the southern end of their range. I caught up with this pair in freezing conditions this morning. Note how these very cryptic birds push leaf litter to the sides, working in a circle.
#birds
#birding
#BirdsOfTwitter
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@DoctorKarl
We shouldn't be funding private schools and certainly not religious ones which are premised on brainwashing children about supernatural nonsense.
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Let's be certain here, the best and latest in science supports the lived experience of transgender people. Gender is a natal aspect of our biology and, being the lens through which we know ourselves, understand our relationships and move in this world is vastly more important ...
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Nazis parade beneath our flag 🇦🇺which Aussie diggers died under whilst fighting against Nazis. Those Nazis then shared the same stage as Katherine Deves and Kellie-Jay Keen as they spouted their genocidal hatred for transgender people dressed up as 'letting women speak'.
Look what the pigs let happen in front of Parliament House. Same Nazis from the Grampians.
#posieparker
you can’t hide, you got Nazis on your side
#acab
#FCKNAZIS
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it's head. We expect more from a Prime Minister in this country than to prevaricate and fumble his speech when he encounters hate. We expect him to be a champion for equity and equality and call that hate out. And, what is a woman? . . .
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@roguegovadvisor
@CrikaRika
You may call it a 'mob' because you wish to be dishonestly disparaging, but this is a community defending itself from calls for genocide and calling for a better world.
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I was photographing our gorgeous Cheetahs at
@TheSydneyZoo
this morning when this cheeky 1st year dull male Superb Fairy-wren landed on a tarp right beside me. I couldn't resist the chance to snap this bird on that icy backdrop in the golden morning light.
#birds
#birding
#nature
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I'm proud of who I am and the life I created. Pride Month is an opportunity for the LGBTQ+ community and our allies to keep building a world where everyone can be who they are, find their full potentials and help the person next to them do the same.
#Pride
#PrideMonth
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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One of the perks of working in a zoo . . . meet Wallace the sweetest little Sugar Glider 😍🥰
#nature
#animals
#SugarRush
@TheSydneyZoo
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For many years now Australia has been building a nation where diversity and inclusion are a centrepiece of our cultural ambitions. Posie Parker can come here and spew her vile rhetoric, but I have every confidence that the vast majority see her for who she is and will reject her.
Message last month from Kellie-Jay Kean to all women rejecting her bridge-building with far-right & white supremacist groups : "Each and every one of you women who stand in my way .... You will be annihilated".
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I sometimes get messaged by folk who want to know what camera I use to shoot my butterfly images. I use an iPhone X. One must learn how to be super stealthy 😊
#butterflies
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