#australian wildlife

[maureen2musings]

New Holland Honeyeater

birdsofmelbourne

[olessan]

[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.

[lavendercowboyart]

This is the January sticker club sticker! ❄️

Inspired by Christmas Beetles (Anoplognathus pallidicollis), a common species of adorable iridescent scarabs who appear in droves around Christmastime in Australia. These beetles are particularly drawn to colorful Christmas lights!🎄

You can only get this snug lil bug by joining the sticker club BEFORE the end of January! 🪲🧣

🔗 https://ko-fi.com/lavendercowboyart/tiers

Limited spaces! Global mailing now available! 💌🛫🌍

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[maureen2musings]

New Holland honeyeater

benjamingoode

[jadeseadragon]

Repost @robinssci

Wolf spiders are the best.

*Minor edit to note that this is technically a wolf spider with a trapdoor burrow, not actually a trapdoor spider as that term refers to specific taxa.

Filmed on @australianwildlifeconservancy's Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary.

[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

[five-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

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