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Cat Young

@catmyoung.bsky.social
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She/her. Biologist and birdo living in lutrawita/Tasmania.

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Garrett Merz @garrettmerz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
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Dr David Hamilton @drdevildave.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
#WhereWhereWedgie 🦅 surveys near Hamilton today - - 6 (!!) x wedge-tailed eagles - 1 x white-bellied sea-eagle - 1 x brown falcon - 200 cockatoos!! An excellent day for science! @catmyoung.bsky.social @clawkins.bsky.social #citizenscience 🌿🪶🧪 #Tasmania #conservationscience
A person looking to the sky through binoculars, diligently searching for eaglesSuccess! A wedge-tailed eagle soaring high!
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Thought we had planned this perfectly - morning survey from the balcony at this gorgeous farm stay but unfortunately 99% of the square is on the other side of that hill! Oh well 2 wedgies on the way in is a great sign for tomorrow! #wherewherewedgie #citizenscience
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Look it's me doing eagle surveys! Book your square for next weekends surveys before Wednesday! It's a great day out in Tasmania and helps inform eagle conservation. naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Calling all Tasmanians! Where Where Wedgie surveys are open for booking! Surveys to be conducted May 23-25th. More info naturetrackers.au/projects/whe... Book today!
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
So, Murray Watt is the new Environment Minister in the re-elected @albomp.bsky.social government. Murray, please implement environmental law reform and increase investment in environmental protection and recovery, as large numbers of experts have advised. theconversation.com/australians-...
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Australians want nature protected. These 3 environmental problems should be top of the next government’s to-do list
Three experts consider what’s required to protect and conserve Australia’s natural wonders, from fighting invaders to stopping habitat loss and saving species.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
As a mammalogist I'm fascinated by 💩 because it can help us to answer important questions, like who eats more livestock, dingoes or foxes, and how many threatened or near-threatened species are eaten by cats and foxes? New paper, by PhD student Rachel Mason theconversation.com/farmers-fear...
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Farmers fear dingoes are eating their livestock – but predator poo tells an unexpected story
Despite public perceptions, sheep and cattle are not a favoured prey for some dingoes or foxes. So is culling them to protect livestock justified?
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
When I travel snails make me think of @snailseyeview.bsky.social 🐌🐌🐌 (Snail from Samoa)
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Dr David Hamilton @drdevildave.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
On the trail of the Manumea (tooth-billed pigeon) in Samoa! @catmyoung.bsky.social
A view of a forested valley from a bird hide in Samoa - most wreaths the hilltops
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
One bird. 399 pieces of plastic. 55 g. This is not our record.
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Chat GPT tells me - If an echidna were casting a vote in the 2025 Australian election—motivated by instincts to protect its habitat, ensure clean air and water, and avoid human-caused extinction—it would most likely lean toward the Greens. Make good choices today Australia! #auspol
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Dr David Hamilton @drdevildave.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Has anyone asked the echidnas their views on this election? 🎤
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Dr David Hamilton @drdevildave.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
There’s antechinus, & there’s ANTECHINUS!! Antechinus are small (usually…) relatives of the Tasmanian devil. This chonk of a male was caught at Inala Jurassic Garden, for quick samples to help out with vaccine research for Devil Facial Tumour @wildimmunity.bsky.social Pic- @catmyoung.bsky.social
An absolute unit of an antechinus - he knows he’s the king. Pic - @catmyoung
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Paper daisy season! 🌟
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Jewel beetles, paper daisies and highland lakes - magical outing with the Tasmanian Field Naturalists
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Clare Hawkins @clawkins.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Turns out that flying London > Darwin + bus/ferry > Hobart, instead of flying all the way to Hobart, saves about 330 kg CO2 (including radiative forcing: the extra impact of emissions high in the atmosphere). Is 330 kg a lot? It’s 11% of the trip; also 9% of Sweden’s 2022 per capita emissions 😳
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Bloody cracking talk from @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social! Dogs ARE better than humans, hard agree, Nic! #ESAus2024
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Tasmania - when the government says it cannot afford to fix the housing crisis or protect our environment, just remind them they are paying $47,534 a week to park a ship in Edinburgh because the port here won't be built till 2027. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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Scottish media mark arrival of Spirit of Tasmania ferry 'too big' for Australia as cost revealed
It'll cost at least $47,534 a week, plus costs, for the Spirit of Tasmania IV to berth in Scotland under a 30-day deal struck by the Tasmanian government.
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos feeding by the road, Bruny Island
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Watching the tide come in, Bruny Island #tranquility
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Who's creeping on who? Me with the thermal camera or this sneaky brushtail possum on the deck.
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Classically a winter destination Ben Lomond National Park is well worth a visit in the summer!
View over the dolerire filled valley from Ben Lomond lookout
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Dr David Hamilton @drdevildave.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The local swifties are very much enjoying the flowering black gums in the Hobart suburbs right now!
A swift parrot, sitting amongst the branches of a flowering black gum
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Dr David Hamilton @drdevildave.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
🎶 It’s me, hi! 🎶 🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶 Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
Great day out for #WhereWhereWedgie surveys on Bruny Island. Consider this square #239 next year if you are looking for an easy intro to the surveys. Start at the neck campsite, stop at the chocolate shop and the cafe. End at the gin distillery! Winning!! 🦅🦅🦅
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Did you like me sign the petition and think 'the Lee Point development in Darwin will never get up, it's clearly bad news'. Well here we are, last ditch effort to save this old growth savannah woodland. saveleepoint.org.au #saveleepoint
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
Experimental baking - Platypus roll 😋
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
When this is right outside the door but you are stuck in a dark room and wall to wall meetings 🫤
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 22/02/2024
Stunning light on the mountain this morning in Hobart ☀️❤️
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Bruny Island Bird Festival is less than a month away! If you are thinking of booking into walks or evening events you better get in quick! www.brunybirdfestival.org
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Please Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Bird flu causing ‘catastrophic’ fall in UK seabird numbers, conservationists warn
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Bird flu causing ‘catastrophic’ fall in UK seabird numbers, conservationists warn
Report by RSPB and British Trust for Ornithology finds H5N1 has killed three-quarters of great skua and 25% of northern gannets
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Definitely in the top 5 cakes I've made 🐗
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
Office friends! These beauties really help ease the harsh reality of Monday morning back in the office.
Flowering African violets
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
I made a thing ❤️
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
The Environ Protection Agency should never have approved the wind farm on Robbins Island. But at p ast they imposed conditions to protect critically endangered species. These conditions have now been overturned by TasCAT. It's all up to Tanya Plibersek now 😓 www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
Massive marine heatwave prompting some pretty drastic conservation action! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Stunning day to be out and about on #brunyisland
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Gorgeous week of superb parrot science 🦜🪶
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Dr Manu Saunders FRES @manusaunders.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
Not good. Fire ants detected in NSW for the first time #invasivespecies #biosecurity 🧪🌏 www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...
abc.net.au
'Worst of the worst': Fire ant nests detected in NSW for the first time
The NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) have confirmed the detection of three red imported fire ant nests in South Murwillumbah in north-eastern NSW.
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
I'm in the Inala Botanical Gardens on Bruny Island so here are the obligatory Protea pics. Second ones even got a sneaky Antechinus on it 🥰
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
A moth that mimics a wasp! Coracistis erythrocosma (or so I'm told). #ExtinctionMatters #BioBlitz
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
This is Hannah, she's heading down the garden path to steal Missy's banana's.
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
So many wonderful moths!!! ❤️ #ExtinctionMatters #BioBlitz
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Many a bird, bat, mammal, frog and insect recorded today/tonight at the Nature Trackers bioblitz! 121 species last I checked!
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
“All community engagement staff in the biodiversity, conservation and science directorate not funded by specific programs will go, including at least seven Indigenous officers.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... - @phannam.bsky.social
theguardian.com
NSW government axes dozens of environmental roles in ‘backward step’
Exclusive: Coalition accuses Labor of hypocrisy and says delay in rewarding farmers to protect nature is a ‘disgrace’
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
If you ever think about complaining about a conference schedule just don't. It's hard! It's a 3D puzzle where new rules and pieces are constantly added.
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Vote yes today Australia 🙏
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
This is now a dogs in the office account 🐾
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Cat Young @catmyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
This good girl is visiting our office today, might have to petition for a health and wellbeing officer position for her ❤️
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