If you are in Australia and see dead birds this spring - be sure to report it! Regardless of which state you are in, call the emergence animal disease watch hotline 1800 675 888 More information about avian influenza on my website michellewille.com/avian-influenz…

We're excited to announce that Abstracts are open for the 37th AWMS conference, held in Fremantle, Australia, on 03-05 December 2024. Abstracts close on August 31. Submit an abstract today! Submit an abstract: form.jotform.com/241823657301857 Find out more here: awms.org.au/conference/

Faunalytics will host a remote symposium for animal advocates on September 19th, 2024. Apply to submit a presentation abstract of original research that discusses the real-life implications and recommendations of such data for animal advocates: faunalytics.org/fauna-connecti…

Teamwork makes the dream work. A pair of Double-eyed Fig-parrots (marshalli subspecies) on Cape York capitalises on some perfectly suited dead-tree habitat to excavate their nest hollow in 🥹. ♂️ on the top; ♀️ at the mini hollow. Such colourfully adorable little things, right?❤️

Once I found a perfect but dead owl fly on the front seat of the car - I thought my partner had put it there as a present! But no - just chance… one of my favourite insects!

How interesting! I see water rats ( I am ‘rat positive’) at Lake Daylesford pretty regularly- usually in late afternoon. Didn’t realise they had such nocturnal habits!

Winter walks in the Wombat Forest - here’s Morning Star track Blackwood at 9:30 am sat morning. Magic! ❄️

If you manage gorse in Australia then I want to hear from you! I'm gathering diverse perspectives from Aus on gorse management - meaning anyone who manages gorse in some way, scale doesn't matter. Survey is anonymous, most Qs are optional. Please share! 🇦🇺 forms.gle/5jE6kv3Q9qFPf2…

Super excited by this fine piece of tachylite ! I found it along a gas pipeline running through my local forest - tachylite is related to but not quite like obsidian. Volcanic glass! I knew it was at Spring Hill but not at porcupine ridge where we are

Our website has a resource centre packed full of essential and up-to-date information including fact sheets on a wide range of diseases impacting Australian wildlife. Scan the code or visit wildlifehealthaustralia.com.au/Resource-Centr… to see the breadth of information we have available online

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Excited to share our review, led by Grace Blackburn looking at the co-occurrence of multiple anthro stressors on avian behaviour and cognition, and how the effect of two stressors together may be worse than the added effect of singly. Camilla Soravia nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

How do we change behaviours to improve human-nature relationships? Real world implementation and evaluation is hard. We describe an implementation framework and identify knowledge gaps based on our experience as an academic-government collaboration doi.org/10.1016/j.bioc…

Top scientists call on Australian Government to allocate federal funding towards nature protection and management 30by30.org.au/blog/2024/07/1…

A research collaboration between Faunalytics and Sentient Media finds that very little media coverage of climate change focuses on animal agriculture, a major cause of the phenomenon. faunalytics.org/animal-ag-in-c…

It’s hovea time! These gorgeous teeny peas have amazing leaf variability and flowers with sweet subtle purple hues and my heart sings when they pop every year! Hovea heterophylla

Misty gorgeousness in central Victoria today. Love this giant old messmate!

So excited for this! Words in Winter festival Daylesford ‘Writing about the natural world can help us first notice nature, but narrative - where living things have agency and inner lives - really fosters connection’ This Sunday 12-1 pm - more info here wordsinwinter.com/events/nature-…

#Internationaldogday2024 some of 1776 dog photos on my phone! My dog, my friends’ dogs, random dogs on the street 😂all the best best boys and girls!