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✨Cockatoos have learnt the art of opening bins - in an escalating 'arms race' between them and humans! Drawing the roly poly cockatoos was definitely a highlight. :D 🎨 Art:Ivy Shih #cartoon Inspired bythis lovely The Sydney Morning Herald Angus Dalton article: smh.com.au/national/nsw/f…

Have you seen cockatoos opening bins too? Help our researchers to learn more about these behaviours: clevercockies.com Biology at ANU Lucy Aplin

Here's a mind-blowing open data portal that I think should be far better known than it is: Geoscience Australia's Historical Aerial Photography archive, containing 1.2 million aerial photos from the 1920s on! 🛩 🗺 🤯 Yellow dots = scanned downloadable photos! digital.atlas.gov.au/apps/9a0ecbafe…

Brave. Impressive. Wonder how it will play out.

Excited to share our paper on bat mating systems! 🦇 We categorise mating systems based on male reproductive skew, and propose a new mating system: lek-like mating systems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… Dr John Martin Journal of Animal Ecology Western Sydney U - HIE Professor Justin Welbergen Karrie Rose Ecology and Evolution

Wing tags allow us to study individual birds’ behaviour. Please report your sightings using the Big City Birds app to help us learn about movements, nesting, and foraging habits across QLD, NSW, & SA spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/i… #ibis #bigcitybirds #binchicken

Excited to share our paper on bat mating systems! 🦇 Well done Annabel Dorrestein for leading this research Western Sydney U - HIE BATsLAB We categorise mating systems based on male reproductive skew, and propose a new mating system: lek-like mating systems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Most birds hide their small nest, not when it’s 3 tonnes of soil and leaf litter! Please report the bush-turkey nests you’re seeing - especially if you reported previously. We are assessing repeated use of nests; report via @BigCityBirds app or website: spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/i…

So Anthony Albanese & Tanya Plibersek are seemingly entertaining literally torching our future rather than sitting down & negotiating with the Greens & Independents & backing science-based recommendations from Prof. Graeme Samuel’s EPBC review? How pathetic! abc.net.au/news/2024-09-1…

Here’s a question sent in from one of our viewers during Ask An Expert – are there any unique or interesting behaviours specific to the #Australian white #ibis?  #Ecologist Dr John Martin answers this question, and many more, in the live stream: ausgeo.co/auswhiteibis

Have you noticed ibis “breast plumes”? They indicate breeding; Oz white ibis also have decorative lace-like plumes on their wings & bare patches of red skin on the back of their heads and under their wings Report nests @BigCityBirds app or website: spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/i…

Hi all. Chatting about Kosciuszko with Sarah Mac just after 10am on ABC Sydney. Also the half-hour convo I recorded with David Marr will run tonight on Radio National’s Late Night Live. In promo mode a bit this week, but we are sharing important stories here so I hope that’s ok

Check out Watermelon's extended family tree, as revealed by genetic analysis of feathers by #CleverCockieProject and Lucy Aplin Kyle Ewart -

While private & industry investment in conservation is welcome, I strongly disagree with the notion that governments can’t front up the majority of $ needed. Environmental harm caused by capitalism & markets will not be solved by…capitalism & markets. theconversation.com/australia-is-h…

First baby Brush-turkey we’ve spotted for the season (in Sydney)! Are you seeing these Bush-Babies?? Please report sightings using the Big City Birds app spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/i… @BigCityBirds Sydney Science

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I am obsessed with ungainly urban birds, of which category the ibis and the brush turkey are the undisputed bosses. At the risk of being clickbaity, here are literally about 17 things about brush turkeys u didn't know, and thanks to Dr John Martin for the info weatherzone.com.au/news/how-brush…

I think about this map often, especially at times like this

Our latest paper on “Habitat use by nomadic straw-necked ibis and royal spoonbills following dispersal from breeding sites in western NSW & Vic” Fantastic to start to learn about these birds; just think how little we know about the small, cryptic species idp.springer.com/authorize?resp…