Everything is a bit grim at the moment with H5N1 avian influenza showing up in AoNZ, but there is hope. Bird flu has been in Hawaii since 2024. The Hawaiian stilt has just been reclassified from endangered to threatened after the pop. grew from 200 to 1,500 over 50 years of conservation work.

'Fifty years of work': Hawaiian stilt brought back from the brink - Oceanographic

The Hawaiian stilt (Aʻeo) reclassified from endangered to threatened after 50 years of conservation brings population back from the brink.

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Winter flowers brightening a rainy weekend in the Perth Hills 🌿🌧️ 💜 Native Wisteria 🤎 Couch Honeypot 💛 Leafless Rock Wattle ❤️ Lemon-scented Darwinia #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling

Cuttlefish #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #cuttlefish

This is the ideal editorial relationship let’s be real

Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2y ago

working through editorial notes bc i know they will make my manuscript better but i am still a sensitive writer

If you're interested in plants, SW Western Australia is where it's add. Magnificent flora!

WA Orchids@wa-orchids.bsky.social · 3w ago

Some of the flowers currently bringing colour to the Perth Hills. These species are all endemic to the southwest of Western Australia 🌿 💙 Blue Leschenaultia 🩷 Snakebush 💛 Winter Donkey Orchid 💜 Common Dampiera #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling

is Wordle on glue, is this it, did it huff some glue this morning

hmmm Wordle 1,852 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

First Powerful Owlet of the season!!!! By far the earliest we've ever seen, by about 3 weeks. We actually saw it fledge last night, but didn't realise it. It was about 40m from the hollow and about 15m up, so it must be quite a good flier already. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Bird flu?! Seriously? Can somebody tell this virus it’s really not a good time First Dog on the Moon There’s already too much going on www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bird flu?! Seriously? Can somebody tell this virus it’s really not a good time | First Dog on the Moon

There’s already too much going on

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Join me on July 9 for a conversation with KI echidna expert Peggy Rismiller, chaired by monotreme biologist Frank Grutzner. In person and online! Book here for details. #nonfiction #auswildlife #naturewriting. Signed books available to purchase events.humanitix.com/rssa-july-20...

RSSA July 2026 Meeting and Scientific Presentation

RSSA July Meeting and Scientific Presentation

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Rockpooling at Crabrock and Mansands, near Brixham, Devon 4 July 2026. In order Bluefire Jellyfish Cyanea lamarckii, White-ruffed Sea Slug Aeolidiella alderia, Minute Aeolis Eubranchus exiguus, White Aeolis Favorinus branchialis and Red Rostanga Rostanga rubra. Thanks @jacob-wood.bsky.social

Calectasia narragara - Blue Tinsel Lily A species endemic to Western Australia. This low growing shrub is characterised by beautiful purplish blue star shaped flowers with stamens that start yellow then turn orange and red with age. #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.

LOVE the idea of a parade. When Neil's back at sea, though, otherwise imagine the chaos. (Cue Yakety Sax.)

mr dog@firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · last mo.

Neil the seal! We can't get enough of his pinnipedular antics! But the truth is he's just a little guy... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#molluskmonday I recently visited a new (to me) Purisima Formation exposure that didn't have much in the way of vertebrates, but was chock full of giant slipper snails, Grandicrepidula princeps - I must have seen thousands. I've never seen so many before in my life. 🦖🦑

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Better than my terrible round on Map Tap. Wordle 1,833 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Say hello to Australia's newest mammal species: Planigale petrophila. Known only from the rocky plateaus of the Arnhem Escarpment from specimens hidden in museum collections since the 1970s. Photographed here by the inimitable Pat Woolley doi.org/10.1093/zool...

anyway if you’re in the south of tassie tomorrow the pottery is open to the public from 10am to 3pm and you should come and say hello!!

@ecosystemunraveller.com If my dodgy memory serves me, you posed a question a while back about birds, weather & surveys. Can report that swiftlets would not have a bar of the rain but came out in an exuberant, fluttering, soaring flock yesterday during a break in the 'dry' season drizzle.

Bury me in the whale graveyard – let the weird starfish chew my bones First Dog on the Moon Scientists have discovered an enormous whale graveyard about 1,200 km long, which seems big but then so are whales www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bury me in the whale graveyard – let the weird starfish chew my bones | First Dog on the Moon

Scientists have discovered an enormous whale graveyard about 1,200 km long, which seems big but then so are whales

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Drosera rosulata One of the tuberous sundews that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. This one was happily growing around a granite outcrop in the Perth Hills in late autumn 🌿 #ozflora #fierceflora #sundew #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

BlueSky has prompted me to buy a lot of books. You get a real feel for voice here. Voice is what sells a book to me. Voice and authenticity. Voice, authenticity and... Look, I'll come in again. Anyway, I've ordered a stack of books again this week. It's also reignited my love of writing.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

I've just returned from a trip to the Solomon Islands, what an incredible place!! We saw some beautiful kingfishers including the Sacred Kingfisher which is also found here in Australia ☺️ #kingfisher #drawing #wildlifeart #birdart

The final #kakapo chick (Pearl-4B) from this year's cohort has fledged the nest (defined as roosting outside the nest for the first time). There are 91 chicks alive. They won't be counted towards the population until they're 150 days old. 📸 Petrus Hedman #conservation #kakapo2026 #parrots #birds

Always a good day when you see one of these, let alone this close

Superb Parrots are, indeed, superb parrots. (Along with all the others.)

Dr swift parrot@teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Superb parrots bring me so much joy - perfection just chilling out eating weeds in a city soccer field 😍

My first piece for the FT: on how artists depict the apocalypse, including my man John Martin www.ft.com/content/039b...

What the end of the world looks like, according to the most apocalyptic artists

From Dürer to Keith Haring and Anselm Kiefer, artists have continually reinvented cataclysmic imagery to reflect the anxieties of their age

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Baby gang-gangs are too much ❤️

Some lovely echinoderms from the Australian IOT expeditions in 2021 and 2022! some of which I identified! New species are ongoing! #deepsea www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

New species found in Australia's most 'pristine' marine parks

Researchers have catalogued dozens of new marine species found in the depths of Australia's most remote waters. The result is a window into a rarely glimpsed world.

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