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@naturally_in_noosa spotted this gorgeous little p

@naturally_in_noosa spotted this gorgeous little platypus recently in Noosa. We think he’s having a lovely chill to the amazing background bird music. What do you think?

Want to know more about this unique, iconic Aussie animal? Don’t miss our FREE 1-hour Protecting the Platypus webinar tomorrow, Wednesday 23 September at 10.30 am AEST.

Unable to attend?
Register and we will send you the recording after the event.

Save your spot! Register now via the link in our bio ☝️

📹 IG: @naturally_in_noosa

#protectingtheplatypus #platypus #wildlife #nationalbiodiversitymonth #whatsoninbrisbane #wildlifeconservation #platypuswatchnetwork

A few thoughtful Green Treefrogs (Litoria caerulea

A few thoughtful Green Treefrogs (Litoria caerulea) for #frogfriday from @jonohooper92 🧡🐸

#wildlife #greentreefrog

Have you ever wondered why owls tilt their heads l

Have you ever wondered why owls tilt their heads like these little fluffy Powerful owlets? Find out from @owlcaholic_ below 🦉🦉😍😍

Posted @withregram • @owlcaholic_ "what's that weird monkey doing down there?"
Gorgeous, curious Powerful Owlet (Ninox Strenua) siblings.
Ever wondered why owls tilt their heads like this? Or, if you've been lucky enough to see it, why they bob their heads from side-to-side?
Owls have tubular eyes like telescopes, as opposed to round like ours. Whilst their eyesight is phenomenal, this does mean they can't rotate them in their sockets. By bobbing their heads around like this they can compensate for that and roughly triangulate the distance to an object of interest.

DID YOU KNOW 🤔 - Along with the echidna, the p

DID YOU KNOW 🤔

- Along with the echidna, the platypus forms part of an exclusive mammal grouping called monotremes. They are the world’s only egg-laying mammals.

Sadly, there is growing evidence that platypus numbers are declining. These unique mammals need our help before it's too late!

Join co-hosts Wildlife Queensland and Archdiocese of Brisbane and platypus expert Tamielle Brunt on Wednesday, 23 September for a fascinating FREE 1-hour webinar to learn more about this iconic Aussie animal, the threats they face and what we can do to protect them.

Don't miss out, register now!

https://wildlife.org.au/talking-wildlife-webinar-series/

📸 @platypus_protector

#platypus #wildlifeconservation #wildlife #platypuswatch #nationalbiodiversitymonth #webinar #abcbrisbane #whatsoninbrisbane

An exciting project update from @yellowbelliedglid

An exciting project update from @yellowbelliedgliderproject 👏

Posted @withregram • @yellowbelliedgliderproject PROJECT UPDATE

A lot of work has been happening behind the scenes and we have been following up leads for sightings of Yellow-bellied Gliders in West Logan/Ipswich region. This has been involved a lot of private landholder engagement since it seems that is where these gliders love to live!

After weeks of second-hand sightings and the odd Yellow-bellied Glider vocalisation, we are excited to announce that a local resident Brenden Ward managed to snap some of the attached camera-trap footage of a very nosey Yellow-bellied Glider checking out some potential new real estate!

This is potentially one of the first wild images of a west Logan Yellow-bellied Glider area. There’s a potential they may have been living in this area for a while, but local residents may not have been able to identify what these noisy banshees were!

This footage installs confidence that we are on the right path of finding another South East Queensland population of Yellow-bellied Gliders! Next on the list is engage with more landholders and start trying to gather movement and population information!

Exciting things to come!!

Meet baby Wattle. A beautiful name for a beautiful

Meet baby Wattle. A beautiful name for a beautiful little greater glider 😁❤️! Who agrees? Simply amazing footage from @yellowbelliedgliderproject

Posted @withregram • @thelonelyboobook A beautiful little wild Greater Glider in mum’s pouch. Mum being the one we @yellowbelliedgliderproject nicknamed Gizmo, meet her baby ‘Wattle’

This was filmed from a safe distance with telephoto lens and side lit, then post editing to brighten up and crop to get a closer look, so as you can see the gliders were not bothered by my presence and went about their natural way.

#gliders #greatergliders #gloriousgliders #queenslandglidernetwork #wildlife #queensland

PLASTIC FREE SA❕👏 South Australia has become

PLASTIC FREE SA❕👏

South Australia has become the first state to ban single-use plastics in Australia!

Well done SA!! The laws will come into effect in 2021 with the banning of key single-use plastic items such as straws, cutlery and beverage stirrers. After 12 months, expanded polystyrene cups, bowls, plates and oxo-degradable plastics will also be included.

Read more via the link in our bio ☝️

C’mon Queensland! Our environment and wildlife are counting on you!

The QLD legislation was ready to go before parliament for a vote but was not tabled on the last sitting day prior to the election. The next opportunity will now be after the election in December or early in 2021.

📸 @sharksandraysau / freshwater sawfish (Pristis pristis)
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#singleuseplastic #plasticpollution #sawfish #platypuswatchnetwork #singleuseplasticfreequeensland

IT'S UN-BEE-LIEVABLE! 🐝📷 Bee photographer an

IT'S UN-BEE-LIEVABLE! 🐝📷
Bee photographer and Wildlife Queensland volunteer @jenny.thynne recently witnessed one of nature's marvels. Here's Jenny's amazing bee story ...

A few months ago I bought some pigeon pea seeds (Cajunus cajun), as I’d read they were highly attractive to Great Carpenter bees (Xylocopa species).

The seeds germinated, and the plants have been in flower for weeks, but no carpenter bees have visited them. What has happened instead is that some Megachile bee species, which love yellow pea flowers, (also known as leafcutters for obvious reasons) have been visiting and pollinating the flowers. They cut little circles from these and other plant species' leaves to put in their nests and make cells for the larvae. When they've finished laying eggs and placing pollen in the cells for the larvae to feed on when they hatch, they cap the nest with numerous leaf cuttings.

As if that wasn't amazing enough, when one of these bees lands on a cajanus flower, they burrow into the heart of the flower where the nectar is and then press on the two lower petals with their hind legs so that the stamens rise and touch the abdomen. I watched through the camera lens as one of them literally scraped the pollen straight onto the hairs beneath her abdomen.

We now have a crop of ripening pigeon peas, thanks to their efforts.😊

📷 all images: Jenny Thynne

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#bees #bee #pollination #wildlife #nationalbiodiversitymonth

An amazing shot of a greater glider during the day

An amazing shot of a greater glider during the day.

This little one must have have heard that @cesar_on_safari and the @yellowbelliedgliderproject team were in the neighbourhood and thought a special daytime appearance was in order! ❤️

📸 @cesar_on_safari

Posted @withregram • @cesar_on_safari Greater Glider // Petauroides volans
#35mm
There are some moments in life where you can do nothing but marvel at your luck. Seeing a Greater Glider at the best of times is an honour, but seeing one during the day and getting a photo is a straight up miracle. I rarely question my choice of film, but I genuinely lost sleep over this roll. "Should I have brought a digital just in case? What happens if the roll or camera fails?"
I needn't have worried for these are probably my favourite photographs I've ever taken. A once in a lifetime opportunity and one I'll not soon forget.
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#wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #filmphotography #vsco #australianwildlife #australiangeographic #wildlifeaddict #natureonly #natgeowild #wild #animals #naturephotography #filmphotography #filmsnotdead #fujisuperia400 #cesarsfilmphotos #filmphotos #35mmfilm #greaterglider

Yummy! The sweetest little sugar glider we’ve ev

Yummy! The sweetest little sugar glider we’ve ever seen 😍
Sugar gliders earned their name from their love of eating nectar and flowers but they eat insects too. These sweet gliding possums occur in every state and territory of Australia, largely confined to coastal areas.

📸 @owlcaholic_

#sugarglider #gloriousgliders #gliders #wildlife

Posted @withregram • @owlcaholic_ Glider tongue! Sugar Gliders (Petaurus Breviceps) like this one are seasonal omnivores, with their diet varying based on the time of year. When we observed him here he''s eating sap, typical of winter when insects and other arthropods are scarce! Super cute!

Posted @withregram • @yellowbelliedgliderproject

Posted @withregram • @yellowbelliedgliderproject It is Threatened Species Day in Australia which directly aims to encourage the community to prevent further extinctions of Australia's fauna and flora, and to restore healthy numbers of threatened species in the wild.

This day represents the core foundations of the conservation projects that we run at the Queensland Glider Network and reflects directly on our two focused species – The Yellow-bellied Glider and the Greater Glider.

Greater Glider populations are on the decrease, although it is not clear how quickly they are disappearing from the Australian bush. Some studies estimate a 89% decline in Greater Gliders from Central Queensland when comparing population data from 1973-76 to 2001-2002.
Yellow-bellied Gliders is meeting the same fate although their population data is not heavily available. Scientists have recorded an overall 30% reduction of Yellow-bellied Glider populations over three generations from long-term monitoring projects. It is this lack of information that reinforces the importance of our new project – The Yellow-bellied Glider Project.

Moving away from all the doom and gloom – what can you do to help?

There's many ways you can help protect our wildlife and it can be as simple as creating awareness for these seldom seen gliders. This has the power to drastically increase the conservational value and can be done by sharing ethical images, speaking to friends and family or by promoting the significance of protecting trees and conservational areas.

If you own acreage - maintaining large hollow-bearing trees will give homes to a variety of animals. Another alternative is by installing (or building) nest boxes (see - @hollowloghomes ) or turning dead trees into wildlife hotels (check out the incredible work by @habitec_arb )

If you do have any sightings of gliders that you would like to report to the Queensland Glider Network or would like to have your land surveyed for nocturnal animals in South East Queensland – you’re able to message us via Facebook or by emailing at glider@wildlife.org.au .

Image by @thelonelyboobook - Northern sub-species of Yellow bellied Glider.

So beautiful @owlcaholic_ - both the words and the

So beautiful @owlcaholic_ - both the words and the picture ❤️🐨
#nationalthreatenedspeciesday

Posted @withregram • @owlcaholic_ I was going to post an Australian Masked Owl for today being Threatened Species Day, but as an Aussie, not posting one these little guys today didn't feel right.
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Koalas are vulnerable to extinction, with numerous factors attributing to their decline. Their size sees them with few predators, with a couple of exceptions (Dingos, large pythons and Powerful Owls), however widespread hunting at the turn of the century, habitat destruction, the terrible bushfires and their chlamydia issues are quickly bringing their population down.
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I see these guys every time without fail I go look for owls locally. I always sit and watch them a bit, and it's truly wonderful to be able to just look up and there they are. I positively dread the day that I look up and they're just not there though sadly, I don't think it's far off. If you've got kids, take them Koala spotting. See how many they can find. Give them a reason to protect what's around them.

Such gorgeous orange eyes on this orange-thighed t

Such gorgeous orange eyes on this orange-thighed treefrog! 🐸🧡

Posted @withregram • @jonohooper92 Is it even a rainforest without this frog?
Orange-thighed Treefrog (Litoria xanthomera) from QLD's Wet Tropics. They descend from the canopy after heavy rain for explosive breeding events.

📸 @jonohooper92

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#frogfriday #nationalbiodiversitymonth

The importance of tree hollows for the protection

The importance of tree hollows for the protection and survival of many native animals cannot be overstated, as this stunning image of four sibling barn owls by @bobbybert_ shows 🦉❤️

This beautiful, medium-sized bird is mostly active at night and roosts in concealed tree branches during the day. Barn owls have a 'heart-shaped' facial disc, with sandy orange and light grey upperparts and white to cream underparts.

Whilst barn owls have no definite breeding season, this usually takes place twice per year and the nest is normally a hollow in a tree.

📸IG: @bobbybert_

Posted @withregram • @bobbybert_ To me, I'd prefer this view to welcome me over any other view from my front door.

This is an image of 4 sibling barn owls emerging at dusk from a single hollow in the tree located in my front yard.

Sadly for these guys, a tree like this, which provides an essential home for not just these four owls, but a variety of birds, possums and gliders, doesn't have much of a chance in most circumstances against the demand for senic views of a seemingly preferred bare landscape.

Just hope this photo can influence a spare thought to an irreplaceable 200 year old tree when considering a place to put your home in the existing landscape.
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#easternbarnowl #barnowl #owl #wildlife #wildlifeconservation

Join Wildlife Queensland's Matt Cecil and guest sp

Join Wildlife Queensland's Matt Cecil and guest speaker, platypus expert Tamielle Brunt on Wednesday, 23 September from 10.30 am to 11.30 am for a special webinar about Protecting the Platypus!

Find out about these unique monotremes, their importance in freshwater ecosystems, the threats they face in South East Queensland and what we can do to protect them.

Don't miss out, register now via the link in our bio ☝️

#platypus #wildlifeconservation #wildlife #whatsoninbrisbane #wotsoninqueensland #platypuswatchnetwork #nationalbiodiversitymonth

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