Front page of the Girgarre Gazette! What a great way to engage the community about the fat-tailed #dunnart , that they may be lucky to find on their properties 🙌
(Girgarre is a small farming town 40km southeast of Echuca in VIC)
#conservation #CommunityEngagement #ecology

Barbed wire and #wildlife don't mix. My heart aches. While on #fieldwork recently I found 4 deceased native #bats , a few metres from each other.
I believe these are Little red #flyingfoxes , semi-permanent residents of northern VIC.
The Australian Mammal Society #WildOz #conservation #ecology

Australian government (DAFF) customs forms got me feeling like
'I will not talk in class.
I will not talk in class.'

#dunnarts

Today I found a Basket Stinkhorn (Clathrus ruber)!
It's fungi season!!!

#fungi #mushroom

Putting the F A T in Fat-tailed Dunnart 🙌😍

#dunnart #dunnart y #marsupial #conservation #conservation ist #dasyuridae #womeninstem #womeninscience #science #threatenedspecies

Today in the office... department good girls Ocean (marine biologist) and Kelly (microbiologist) made some new friends.

BioSciences UniMelb Ashley M. Dungan, PhD (she/her)

The sand-dunes of #Kokatha #desert country left me mesmerized, as did the remnants of #indigenous life, scattered amongst the dunes. Forever connected to landscape; a continual reminder that it #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #Aboriginal land.
*Artefacts left where they lay. Arid Recovery

PARTY IN MY PITFALL! (What you can't see are the two legless-lizards under the false floor as well!)
*Handled and trapped with appropriate permits, then released to live their best desert-dwelling lives*
#desert wildlife #desert #WildOz #fieldwork #ecology #science Arid Recovery

Today in #desert #reptiles ... who can you identify?
*Handled and trapped with appropriate permits, then released to live their best desert-dwelling lives*

#desert wildlife #lizards #snakes #WildOz #fieldwork #ecology #science #WomenInScience Arid Recovery

How many #desert #reptiles can you identify?
*Handled and trapped with appropriate permits, then released to live their best desert-dwelling lives*

#desert wildlife #lizards #snakes #WildOz #fieldwork #ecology #science #WomenInScience Arid Recovery

Stripe-faced dunnart! (Sminthopsis macroura)
Not my usual #dunnart suspect... though very much welcome in my traps nonetheless 🤩🙏

#ecology #fieldwork #dunnart y #marsupial #conservation #desert wildlife #desert #WomenInScience Arid Recovery

Jan's Banded Snake (Simoselaps bertholdi) is a #nocturnal , burrowing ( #fossorial ), #desert -dwelling species of #snake that feed on small lizards! Isn't she a beauty?!
*Wild snake held with species knowledge and appropriate permit*
📸Ines Badman
#ecology #fieldwork Arid Recovery

'The best adventures start before the sun comes up' - Candice Sexton

Desert country, here we come.

#fieldwork #dunnarts #ecology #science #WomenInScience

SLOW 👏DOWN👏FOR👏 #WILDLIFE 👏
... if the worst case scenario does happen, and you do make contact, stop to remove it from the road to avoid more casualties. If it's a female, check her pouch.
I moved two lost lives off the road today.
#conservation #slowforwildlife #marsupial

Pro tip: Avoid losing your Honours student in the dark by keeping a thermal camera on you at all times 👍

You're welcome.

#fieldwork #research #science

Nope... it's not poop. These are actually #owlpellets ... the regurgitations of undigestible material from a local #barnowl . One of my favourite #fieldwork activities is dissecting these to see what the local #owls have been eating. Main item on the menu here? #Microbats !

Fieldwork nights✨

📸Ella Farley

#fieldwork #science #ecology #research #WomenInScience #nocturnal

Great job with an awesome team and incredible landscape available! Heather Neilly

- Found dunnarts for my research ✅
- Gatecrashed turtle research ✅
- Gatecrashed bat #research ✅
- Did my best to convince other #research ers why #dunnarts are the best ✅

#fieldwork #science #ecology

Some #reptile buddies I moved off the road last week!
Central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) and Shingleback lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) 🦎

#reptile s #lizards #outback #fieldwork #ecology #wildlife #WomenInScience