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Bill Bateman

@acanthoplus.bsky.social

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At Curtin Uni, Perth, W. Aus - urban ecology, behavioural ecology, wildlife, conservation Twitter @Acanthoplus Lab. Page: www.facebook.com/CurtinUniversityBe…

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Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 23h

Living his best life in the veggie patch

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brown honeyeater weaving spiderweb into its new nest #birds #WildOz

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My gardening companion #quenda #urbanecology

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Quokka doing quokka things #Rottnest

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Obligatory Rottnest quokka pics

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Rottnest “are you going to eat that whole sausage roll?” trifecta

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And now the Woodies are out and about

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Rejoice: the first bobtail of spring

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Campus duck: just thinking

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

“There’s a huge rat on your deck!” “How dare you - her name is Quendalina Jolie”

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#birdsseenin2026 Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata Perth WA demonstrating with its melodious song why it is sometimes known as a Throttlebird

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Sunrise on campus on the last week of semester. The brief gap between no more lectures and the start of exams. Good luck everyone!

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Creatures on Campus on #Curtin Campus last Friday and Saturday - fantastic displays and some of us were able to get up on stage and talk about our research! thewest.com.au/news/perth/c...

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

#Dryandra woodland rarely disappoints - #echidna and #numbat (underwhelming photo, too busy admiring his stripy butt and spotty weskit) within 10 mins of entering

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Look at him: just sitting there waiting for me to drop my guard so he can swoop in and try and steal a biscuit and cause as much chaos as he can #kookaburra #urbanecology

A kookaburra sits on a chair on an outdoor deck watching, waiting for an opportunity to cause as much effin chaos as it can. Bastard.

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

An excellent final talk on his PhD by Thilo Krueger on the best plants there are - Drosera. Well done Thilo. #curtinmls #ecology

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A handsome Australian bin chicken #WildOz

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

‘Wind-pollinated’ sweet corn

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Social bobtails - a pipe in the garden makes a snug home for two #urbanecology #wildoz

A photo down a white pvc pipe showing two bobtail skinks on top of each other looking back up the pipe

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Stole a chip the thieving bastard and now doesn’t know what to do with it. Kookaburra #birdsseenin2026

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Long billed corellas doing some lawn work #birds #urbanecology #birdsseenin2026

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Australasian Raven Corvus coronoides wondering if I have any food I’d like to share #birds #birdsseenin2026

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Come to help clean up the bbq grill. Kookaburra #birds #birdsseenin2026

A handsome kookaburra sits amongst scraps of food on a bbq, backlit by the sun

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

You want it from my what?

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The Carnaby’s cockatoos have descended on Curtin campus again - listen to those calls #birds #wildoz #birdsseenin2026

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae with a grasshopper for the whiny baby #birds #birdsseenin2026 Perth WA

A blackfaced cuckooshrike perched and looking towards camera

Same bird with a large grasshopper and young one begging to its right

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Mosasaurs exist

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Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Red wattled lapwing, magpie-robin, white-vented mynah - all urban Bangkok #birds #birdsseenin2026

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Black drongo Dicrurus macrocercus Bangkok #birds #birdsseenin2026

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Awesome mounted skeleton of reticulated python (Mahidol University Bangkok)

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Asian open-billed stork Bangkok #thaibirds #birdsseenin2026

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Water monitor cruising by #urbanecology

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The majestic Asian water monitor Varanus salvator Bangkok Thailand #urbanecology

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

#birdsseenin2026 masses of banded stilts and Australian shelduck on #Rottnest island: it’s not just quokka #birds #wildoz

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Time management tips from the birds: why not combine breakfast and your morning shower?

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

#birdsseenin2026 Djenark or Silver Gull

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The King of the Skinks - the King’s skink. #rottnest

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New Holland Honeyeater in the green shade at the hottest point of the afternoon #birdsseenin2026 #birds #WildOz

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Tawny frogmouth doing what they do best - being an innocent stick #birdsseenin2026 #birds

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Herring gull bemused by ice #birdsseenin2026 #birds

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

A quiet (apart from plane going over) early morning campus and the Carnaby’s Cockatoos were getting breakfast #birds #WildOz

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

#birdseenin2026 Rook in the snow #birds

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Lichen in the snow

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#birdseenin2026 common buzzard way up high and calling

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Redshank taking advantage of pair of mallards churning up the water

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

As is traditional when in correct hemisphere - New Year walk to old churches and pub in the cold

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Please insert your own tit joke here

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Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

My beach companion today #WildOz

Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Male tettigoniid becoming adult in time for Xmas #WildOz