Don’t look so sceptic-owl 🤨🦉

Echidna egg eaters!!! 😮 www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Mystery turtle nest raider revealed. Echidna caught with egg on its face

Echidnas are known for laying eggs and eating ants, but it turns out a few have developed a hunger for the eggs of endangered turtles.

🚨 Some quoll-ity research for your Friday! 🚨 Devil declines caused by facial tumours are having a knock-on effect on spotted-tailed quolls, with quolls moving around & dispersing much less from areas with lower devil densities Nice summary here - www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tasmanian devil die-off is shifting another predator’s genetics

Devil population crashes caused by contagious tumours have knock-on effects elsewhere in the food chain. Devil population crashes caused by contagious tumours have knock-on effects elsewhere in the fo...

Deck the quolls, the quolls on deck!

Ducks fly together! As do flying duck orchids (Caleana minor)

A magnificently whiskery beard orchid

YOU SHALL NOT… POSS!!

Fly duck orchid, fly!!

Camera trap photo of a Tasmanian bettong using their prehensile tail to gather up nesting material! Bettongs build nests of dry grass & bark to hunker down in during the day

Australian Bird of the Year 2023!! Now if only there was some way we could protect their habitat… 🤔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...