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petition to cancel australia day and celebrate bird of the year day instead

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/tawny-frogmouth-2025-australian-bird-year-winner

#australia #BirdOfTheYear2025 #AustralianWildlife

Brown Honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta)

Toombul, Queensland, Australia

#bird #birds #AustralianWildlife #australianBirds #honeyeater

A small honeyeater at rest on a thin, almost vertical branch

Exciting #frogpond update. After a few false starts, we definitely have legs now. Saw this #froglet zipping around. Looks like a #StripedMarshFrog. Also still have some #tadpoles who are not making the leap into froghood yet. They have really grown up.

#australianwildlife #backyard #frog #garden

Looking down at a pond, a brown froglet with four legs, tail, and frog-shaped body is under the water clearly visible to the left of the image. There is a large black tadpole to the right, underneath a thin green stick-like leaf, but it is very difficult to see.

Looking down at a pond, a large black tadpole can be seen beneath the water, hovering over a white rock. It has not yet grown any visible limbs.

A stunning Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus) photographed on a pelagic birding-trip from the Gold Coast (Queensland Australia) in September.
#birding #naturephotography #birds #wildlifephotography
#australia #australianwildlife #wildlife #birdwatching #globalbirding #Seabirds

A beautiful little Black-bellied Storm-Petrel (Fregetta tropica) photographed on a pelagic birding-trip from the Gold Coast (Queensland Australia) in September.
#birding #naturephotography #birds #wildlifephotography
#australia #australianwildlife #wildlife #birdwatching #globalbirding #Seabirds

@troberts

Well, for the last two mornings since we put the clocks forward in Australia, the birds have been very quiet, depressed and generally out of sorts.

It’s all very well being enthusiastic about daylight saving, but you’ve gotta think of the wildlife too!

#DaylightSaving #AustralianWildlife

I also love this one for the Australian white ibis: “I feel like bin chicken tonight“

#birds #ozwildlife #australianwildlife #australianbirds

There are some fun taglines for the various birds in the list. I quite enjoyed this one for the Pied currawong: “Can't go wrong with a currawong”.

#birds #ozwildlife #australianwildlife #australianbirds

Voting is open for Guardian's Bird of the Year 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/06/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-vote-now

I didn’t realise this is how it worked: you can vote again every day, with tallies resetting at midnight. The 5 least-popular birds get dropped at the end of each day. The last day is 14 Oct, when you vote one last time among the final 10 birds, and the winner is announced on 15 Oct.

I had to vote for the Wedge-tailed eagle as the only eagle on the list, but there are lots of good ones to choose from.

#birds #ozwildlife #australianwildlife #australianbirds

The hazards at Mungo National Park are not what you’d think.

#Mungo #AustralianWildlife #danger

A warning posted on the glass door of the Mungo Lodge warning visitors that the kangaroos and goats they see are wild. “Keep a safe distance and do not attempt to approach or feed them. Your safety is important!”

Duck Butt

#bird #duck #AustralianWildlife

A Pacific Black Duck dives for weed. It’s butt sticks up from the surface of the water.

Had some of our local King Parrots come to visit this afternoon. This one noticed I was whistling at it (to notify it of the seed I'd just put out).

#AustralianKingParrot #bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

A medium sized parrot with a red body and head and green wings and tail and a blue rump. There's also a pale blue-green stripe on the wings. It is facing the left rear of the frame but has turned its head side on.

The Australian pelican may feel like a seaside favourite, but its true homeland lies deep in the desert. When rare floods transform the outback into vast inland seas, tens of thousands of pelicans embark on epic journeys of thousands of kilometres to breed. How do they know when the waters will rise, and what calls them back to these hidden heartlands?

#australia #outbackaustralia #australianwildlife #desert #wetland #inlandsea #outbackfloods

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9D3C7OcBHgU

White-bellied Sea-Eagle (Icthyophaga leucogaster)

Point Lookout, Minjerribah, Queensland, Australia

#eagle #seaEagle #bird #birds #queensland #stradbrokeIsland #australia #australianWildlife

A sea eagle in flight, wings outstretched, framed against a pure blue sky

i love fairy wrens so much :)

#australianwildlife #birds #photography

a photo of a blue fairy wren sitting on a branch. it is facing the camera which makes it look quite round.

Save The Koala Day .

#savethekoalas #koalasofinstagram #koala #koalababy #koalalove #babykoala #koalalife #koalarescue #koalafreak #koalas #koalafanworld #koalabear #koalabears #australia #savethekoala #australiananimals #koalagang #animals #koalasgram #wildlife #australiankoalafoundation #animal #koalapark #animallovers #australianwildlife #koalachallenge #koalasanctuary #cute #nature #cutekoala

https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/save-the-koala-day/

It was back in the same tree fork this afternoon, but now there was a better view of its tail, which has a white tip and isn't fluffy, so I'm going with Common Ringtail Possum for an ID on this one.

#CommonRingtailPossum #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

A frontal view of a snoozing Ringtail Possum. You can see it's little white tipped tail curled up at the bottom near its paws.

The back side of the curled up possum. It is covered in grey-brown fir.

Found a snoozing possum in the fork of a melaleuca tree on the way to the carpark this afternoon at work.

Photos are naff due to the difficult position and position of the sun.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #CommonRingtailPossum

a small lump of brown grey fur with pink ears nestled in the fork of a paperbark tree.

The back of the curled up possum in the fork of a tree. Its fur is luxurious and ranges from brown to almost black.

Context shot of the back of the possum in the tree fork that looks barely large enough to contain it.

Some more pictures from the whaling station stop (I refused to go into the station itself, but the botanic garden and wildlife collection were worth a visit) #AustralianWildlife #AustralianFlora #BloomScrolling #WestAustralia #WestAustralianFlora

ETA: My apologies - I labelled this animal as a woylie. It's in fact a rufous bettong. The centre does have woylies as well. Thanks to @mads for spotting that!

Correction - this is a rufous bettong, not a woylie. A Rufous Bettong is "Largest of the potoroids. Fur is shaggy grey with a rufous tinge on top; the underparts are pale grey. The tail is grey, sometimes with a white tip. Muzzle is short, with fur between the nostrils. Bare pink skin surrounds the eyes, and the ears are relatively long."

A brush-tailed bettong, or woylie, looking off to the left of frame. A woylie is a small nocturnal, kangaroo-like marsupial with greyish-brown fur on the upperparts and flanks and pale grey fur on the underside. Their long, prehensile tail is darkly coloured with a distinctive black brush at the end and is often used to carry nesting material such as grass and bark. Adults can grow to 38 cm (head-body) and 1.6 kg, with females slightly smaller than males. 

The one in the shot is about the size of a small cat. Woylies are critically endangered and only found in small populations in West Australia
https://www.australianwildlife.org/animals/brush-tailed-bettong-woylie?srsltid=AfmBOoo1UIc-len_k_LCK0Sni3PFWSPXAq_FkjF6hRO1pQ7N7-6eEmNV

Correction: this is a Rufous Bettong. Correct description in previous picture alt-text

A woylie, as described in the previous photos, facing straight to camera showing dark button eyes and pale brown nose, and dainty pale brown paws

A large stand of scarlet and other banksias in the centre of a flower bed with red, golden, and white flowers visible, against a blue sky

View of Frenchman's Bay from the front of the Whaling Station, Albany, showing a long white sand beach and dunes, green foreshore, and a deep green ocean. To the right, a rock barrier is visible, probably serving to shelter whaling boats in the past

Exciting news. Spring is here and my tadpoles have reappeared. They're so good at hiding and have gotten so big. There are at least three left, and after 11 months there are still no legs.

#backyard #frogpond #frogs #australianwildlife #tadpole

#AustralianWildlife

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