#australian wildlife

[maureen2musings]

New Holland Honeyeater

birdsofmelbourne

[flockofteeth]

its dangerous to go alone. here, take these bilbies

[ningauinerd]

you’re not a true dasyuromorph disciple until you have a wild quoll walk up to you and sniff your phone

[ferntern]

Thylacine studies from the colorized footage.

[voidbirds]

Here's something you don't see everyday!

Currumbin Wildlife sanctuary has a daily show where they feed the Wild Eels that live in the water adjacent to the sanctuary.

They would stomp their feet along the shore and a dozen of eels would come right up for a snack. It was crazy and super interesting.

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Yellow-footed antechinus :)

[kachavashka]

There's a Banksia woodland nearby where I live. It's almost untouched by humans (no paths, litter, etc, only a few weeds here and there, but not many) and has extremely high biodiversity, characteristic of this ecosystem.

I visited it the other day and sat beneath the glorious, low-lying canopy of Banksia attenuata, and began imagining a thylacine prowling through the bushes looking for bandicoots as they would have done 2000+ years ago here in Noongar country.

[branchflowerphoto]

grey fantail {kadjinak}

australian native bird

[wildsideoflifeencounters]

Brumbies near the side of the road.

[olessan]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[maureen2musings]

New Holland honeyeater

benjamingoode

[five-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

The cockatoo i filmed eating a burrito a while ago has now upgraded to eating a wholeass meat pie

[ningauinerd]

Doing sleepy lizard fieldwork in the Mid Murray today involved bountiful encounters with goofy fellas as usual

This guy is somehow missing the keratin on most of his large tail scales, revealing the bony scutes (osteoderms) beneath. We’re not exactly sure how this occurred, hopefully he’s not scuffed up too bad, but it is quite cool to look at

Then there’s grumps over here, sucking on his pacifier. We named him Cupcake after his delightful personality

Cupcake is now getting clamped because he’s naughty and bit someone (actually just taking a measurement of head depth)

Polite gentleman patiently getting his tail measured (not a sleepy lizard, doesn’t want to be here)

[ferntern]

Devils

[skydarcyedwards]

Wet beast experiences bliss (a very good scritch)

We watched this tiny platypus for a while, diving and feeding. Then it came out onto the bank, surprisingly bold, to have a scratch.

I'm obsessed with monotremes.