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Give mum the gift of nature with a Wildlife Austra

Give mum the gift of nature with a Wildlife Australia gift subscription this Mother’s Day and receive a set of 8 beautiful Steve Parish booklets worth $79.60 FREE*.
*T&Cs apply

Find out more via the link in our bio 👆

#MothersDay #giftsformum #wildlifeaustraliamagazine

Happy Saturday everyone☀️. We hope this incred

Happy Saturday everyone☀️. We hope this incredible footage of a young #squaretailedkite by the very talented @lerako makes your day🐦❤️ Read more below👇

Posted @withregram • @lerako A young square-tailed kite strengthening flight muscles by flapping its wings - I was lucky enough to be trusted and able to film this location (last year) and the evolution of the chicks from tiny fluff balls (there were two…). It was a privilege and I spent as many morning as my schedule allowed me, driving to this place before sunrise, setting up, filming for a few hours and then driving back to get to my editing and other media work for the day.

Square-tailed kites are endemic to mainland Australia, an uncommon raptor specialised in hunting among trees, taking preys from outer foliage.

This is part of a longer video I want to do to tell the story of that bird, it took me a while to come up with an idea about how to do that and it’s taking me even longer to find the time to edit it but I’ll get there (I’ve had a bit of fun with the sound design on that one)!

Please note, this is taken from a very big distance, the focal length equivalent would be ~1200mm+. Filmed in South-east Queensland.

Posted @withregram • @wildlife_land_fund These p

Posted @withregram • @wildlife_land_fund These photos were taken at Lot 61 Forestry Road, Weranga in the Western Downs of Queensland. This 10-hectare property provides essential habitat for several threatened species including the glossy black-cockatoo, yakka skink, golden-tailed gecko, and koala.

Please help us to purchase and protect this property and add it to the Weranga Scarps Nature Reserve! Each $25 will help save 50 sqm of vital wildlife habitat. Plus, right now your donation goes twice as far with every dollar you donate matched up to $17,000.

Please donate now 👉 https://chuffed.org/project/weranga-scarps-land-purchase-appeal
Or via the link in our bio👆

📷 ResourcePix
1. Kangaroo in woodland
2. Fledgling sacred kingfisher
3. Acacia blossom
4. Antichinus
5. Apostle birds
6. Angophora woodland

#wildlife #appeal #threatenedspecies @wildlife_land_fund

Get involved this Global Citizen Science Month! 🕵️‍♀️

Global @citscimonth , held every April, is a month-long celebration of citizen science, and the perfect time to explore new opportunities to contribute to citizen science projects.

Throughout Citizen Science Month, Wildlife Queensland will be showcasing some of our many programs’ volunteers, partners, and new projects, and providing information on how community members can get involved.

Spotlight on: Wildlife Queensland Fraser Coast Branch Backyard BioBlitz Program

The program, which started as a regular activity for members and other wildlife enthusiasts in 2020, has developed into a popular seasonal Backyard BioBlitz series within the local government regions of Fraser Coast, Gympie and Bundaberg. As part of Citizen Science Month, the program's coordinating team is running a FREE interactive Backyard BioBlitz Workshop on 30 April 2021.

Read more here 👉 https://wildlife.org.au/fraser-coast-branch-backyard-bioblitz-program/
Or via the link in our bio 👆

📷 Scott W Gavins / Otto’s Peacock Spider observed in ‘regular bushland’ (ie Eucalypt forest with semi-wallum understorey) near Talegalla Weir.

#citscioz #citizenscience #CitSciMonth #CitizenScienceMonth #backyardbioblitz

It doesn't come much cuter than this dynamic duo!

It doesn't come much cuter than this dynamic duo! 😍
@pattomkinswildlife captured these amazing camera trap images of little 'Poundcake' and 'Latrice' (love the names!) in @tropicalnorthqueensland recently.

Southern cassowaries are an endangered species found throughout the rainforests and nearby woodlands and swamps of North Queensland. They face a variety of threats and, as habitat disappears, human contact with cassowaries is increasing. The Queensland Department of Environment and Science has sent out a reminder that it is both illegal and harmful to feed cassowaries in the wild.

Cassowaries that become conditioned to receiving human food can become aggressive when protecting themselves or their chicks, or when approaching humans for food. As birds become more comfortable around humans and associate them with an easy meal they make themselves much more vulnerable to dog attacks and road mortality.

📸 @pattomkinswildlife
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#becassowary #southerncassowary #threatenedspecies #wildlife

Fantastic glider project update from the @yellowbe

Fantastic glider project update from the @yellowbelliedgliderproject team 👍👊❤️

Posted @withregram • @yellowbelliedgliderproject PROJECT UPDATE

Due to work commitments and busy personal lives lately, Sam and I have been unable to get out much for the project, but we have still managed to make some progress.

Acoustic monitoring has started on private properties in North Maclean, just south of Greenbank with great finds happening already. We have discovered an active feed tree on a large spotted gum in a backyard! The owners had no idea, how cool!

Back into Greenbank and we have confirmed a new location of YBG presence from 2 rounds of acoustic monitoring followed by a spotlight survey. A single glider was sighted, see photos in post. This brings us to 7 confirmed locations with at least 5 different YBG family groups in the Greenbank/North Maclean area.

From next weekend we will be able to get out a bit more with the help of some new team members getting onboard, we will be back in Ipswich region to collect and redeploy acoustic monitors along with spotlight surveys, Scenic Rim region property visits and continued surveys in Logan.

Cheers!

Weranga Scarps Land Purchase Appeal 🙏 @wildlif

Weranga Scarps Land Purchase Appeal 🙏

@wildlife_land_fund has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase and protect Lot 61 Weranga Scarps in the Western Downs of Queensland, the last piece of the Weranga Scarps escarpment, by 30 April 2021 - and we need your help!

Acquiring this holding means the entire escarpment will be under the management of Wildlife Land Fund, protecting and conserving significant habitat for several threatened species from possible development.

We need to raise $50,000 by 30 April 2021 to purchase this property and protect it forever.

Please, make a donation to help purchase and protect this important habitat with abundant wildlife for future generations. Every dollar you donate until 30 April 2021 up to $17,000 will be matched!

Donate now 👉 https://bit.ly/2Pjm6Ba
Or click on the link in our bio☝️

📸 ResourcePix / all images taken at Weranga Scarps
1. Weranga Scarps, Qld; 2. Antechinus in a log; 3. Glossy black-cockatoo; 4. Acacia conferta; 5. Wedge-tailed eagle; 6. Weranga Scarps; Red-winged parrot; 7. Yellow-footed antechinus; 8. Yakka skink

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#biodiversity #threatenedspecies #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #weranga #westerndowns #queensland #naturereserve #southernbrigalowbelt

#earthhour2021 is tonight at 8.30 pm! 🌏 This y

#earthhour2021 is tonight at 8.30 pm! 🌏

This year Earth Hour is asking people to #switchfornature to support Australia’s switch to a renewables-based economy.

Register online at https://www.earthhour.org.au/?su=petition and go in the draw to win a Fonz Moto electric scooter.

All of us at Wildlife Queensland will be supporting Earth Hour and switching off at 8.30 pm local time. Will you be switching off with us?💡

#switchoff #earthhour

Beautiful brush-tailed rock wallaby ❤️ Amazing

Beautiful brush-tailed rock wallaby ❤️ Amazing footage by @lerako

Posted @withregram • @lerako The “brushy tail” you can see here is what gave this species their name, brush-tailed rock-wallaby. I watched this individual feed from the other side of the main gorge in Crows Nest National Park, it was quite a distance away but at 960mm, and in 4K so I could punch in, I managed this usable shot (and I balanced the camera on top of my bag).

#rockwallaby #brushtailedrockwallaby #crowsnestnationalpark

Posted @withregram • @platypus_protector Platypu

Posted @withregram • @platypus_protector Platypus and floods 💦

As we are having wild weather across the south east, how does our beloved platypus fair?

They would wait out the worst in their burrows but it can be the after effects that cause them some trouble.

Flooding can go either way.

A good top up and (slow) flush out of the system is beneficial, as it fills up the waterway and washes out nutrients and built up sediment.
More water mean an increase in connectivity in the waterways for platypus to move and a depth that is safe and better for foraging.
A good flush, can help the habitat of their food source (aquatic insect larvae) as pollution and sediment impact the quality and quality of insects. A clean system will be beneficial to insect abundance and therefore the platypuses and their bellies!

The major concern is within an urban environment. Instead of water naturally soaking into the system, it enters hard and fast off impervious surfaces. Stormwater exacerbates water flow that can cause:
- bank erosion which impacts their burrow and nesting sites
- scouring of the substrate from the instream channel, which washes away their food and can temporarily displace platypuses
- foraging difficultly, as they are fighting against fast flowing water This decreases their chances of a good feed (especially for emerging juveniles as they may not be very strong or a custom to fast flows)
- and burrow sites can be inundated which is devastating if their are babies!

Thank goodness they are pretty robust and have faired in floods for hundreds of years. However, we still need to monitor them because we have exacerbated these threats in an urban environment and need to makes sure they aren’t being pushed to the point of no return.

#platypuswatchnetwork #platypus

Wow! Such a stunning capture of a brush-tailed roc

Wow! Such a stunning capture of a brush-tailed rock wallaby!❤️🦘

@lerako spotted this little cutie and some of his buddies in and around Crows Nest National Park in Queensland recently.

“I photographed this one at Perseverance Dam where they can be seen on the rock wall, I saw 3 there and two a few hours later inside the national park. They can be quite hard to spot as they blend in really well and most of the time I only saw one when it moved although I had been looking at this area for a while already,” he said.

This iconic species is listed as Vulnerable at both a state and federal level. Already limited to naturally fragmented habitat - rocky outcrops and escarpments - they also face the added threats, in addition to weeds, of habitat degradation and loss, pressure from introduced animal species (feral goats, rabbits, feral pigs, foxes and feral cats), altered fire regimes and population isolation.

Together with our Toowoomba Branch, Wildlife Queensland campaigned to conserve the brush-tailed rock wallaby population at Perseverance Dam.
And, with the generous support of our donors, we are working to improve and increase foraging habitat for a significant colony of brush-tailed rock wallaby in the Flinders-Goolman Conservation Estate, South East Queensland.

Sign up to our free monthly My.wildlife e-bulletin for updates about our rock wallaby project☝️

📸 @lerako

#brushtailedrockwallaby #rockwallaby #threatenedspecies #marsupial #wildlife

Happy #frogfriday and happy #worldfrogday for tomo

Happy #frogfriday and happy #worldfrogday for tomorrow! 🐸🌎

Let's celebrate the many wonderful froggies we are lucky to have in Australia. ❤️
Here are just a few...

🐸📸
1. @pattomkinswildlife / Australian lace-lid

2. @jasminez / Tawny rocket frog

3. @featheredspiders / Desert tree frog

4. @owlcaholic_ / Peron's tree frog, also known as the emerald-spotted tree frog

5. @pattomkinswildlife / Orange-thighed frog

Pics 6-8 Green tree frogs
@pattomkinswildlife @jonohooper92 @annette_logan

9. @owlcaholic_ / Striped marsh frog

#frogs #frogsofinstagram #wildlife

A bit of fluttering colour for your Friday afterno

A bit of fluttering colour for your Friday afternoon 🦋😍

@florawithjasmine captured these stunning images of a beautiful female Richmond birdwing butterfly laying eggs on the birdwing butterfly vine (Pararistolochia praevenosa) (pic 1) and a male resting on Rubus moluccanus (pic 2).

The Richmond birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera richmondia) - Australia’s largest sub-tropical butterfly - is an amazing sight to behold. The adult female is up to 14-16 cm, with black and white patches on both wings and a yellow band on the lower edge of the hind wings. The adult male has a wingspan of about 12-13 cm and is black with green stripes and spots on both sides of the wings, and patches of green on the hind wings. Both male and female have a distinctive red patch on the body beneath the base of the wings and a green stripe on top of the thorax.

Come along to Wildlife Queensland’s Richmond birdwing butterfly webinar on Wednesday, 24 March to learn all about these stunning, vulnerable butterflies.

Link to the webinar via the link in our bio ☝️

📸 @florawithjasmine

#ornithopterarichmondia
#richmondbirdwingbutterfly #butterfly #webinar #wildlife #threatenedspecies

Who wants to boop those duck-billed snoots? 🙌😍 @naturally_in_noosa captured these incredible images in Noosa recently and we just can't get enough of those beautiful bills!

Fun facts about platy snoots:

~ The bill of a platypus has a smooth texture that feels like suede. It is also flexible and rubbery.

~ The skin of the bill has thousands of receptors that pick up on the small electrical signals sent by animals when they move. This helps the platypus to navigate underwater and detect movement of potential food.

~ The watertight nostrils on its bill remain sealed so that the platypus can stay submerged for up to two minutes as it forages for food.

📸 @naturally_in_noosa

#platypus #platypuswatchnetwork #monotreme #wildlife

We hope you're having a sssuper Saturday! 🐍 🐍

Here are some slithering Aussie beauties for your weekend enjoyment. What’s your favourite snake?

Thanks to everyone for tagging #wildlifequeensland

1. @fnq_naturetours / Australian scrub python
2. @jasminez / Green tree python
3. @featheredspiders / Lesser black whipsnake
4. @luca_nimals / Australian coral snake
5. @jradbarnes / Bandy Bandy
6. @wildlike_ / Green tree python
7. @pattomkinswildlife / Carpet python
8. @wildlike_ / Brown tree snake

#snakes #australiansnakes #wildlife #snakesaturday

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