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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ben Goldachre's Bad Science is a classic for being very informative, funny, and a great introduction to analytic thinking and the scientific method. I've gifted it to lots of people.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I hadn't really thought about it, but you're right. Compared to most birds of prey, like this Brown Goshawk, its eyes are much more to the sides. Maybe it reflects its how it hunts and its prey type. Sitting on a branch scanning nearby for smallish slowish moving prey, you want to scan a wide area?

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Possibly the Pacific Baza was more tolerant of people as it was busy hunting frogs. I didn't even know they did that. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Pacific Baza on a branch with a small frog in its beak.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pacific Baza (aka Angry Pigeon) at Oxley Creek Common last week. Birds of prey are usually pretty skitzy around people, but this one didn't seem to care. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Pacific Baza looking over its wing at the viewer.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hadn't heard of the doco. But it appears to be on YouTube. Thanks, that'll be great to watch. youtu.be/MpMoJSQ1asw?...

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Portrait Painter to the Birds - William T. Cooper

YouTube video by Geckos and Gum Leaves

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lucky you. I've only got a couple.of books, but I'd like to get some of the actual art, or at least prints.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I got a book by the artist William T. Cooper on how to draw birds, and I'm having a lot of fun copying some of his sketches from it. I really admire how sure his hand is when he draws.

Sketches of a Flycatcher, Babblers, Cockatoo, Swamp Harrier, Kingfishers, and Cockatoo talon.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'd say it's almost certain it's a Powerful Owl. They eat possums from top to bottom, and sometimes they lose their grip. Best to keep the location to yourself if it is as sometimes many people will show up and they get badly disturbed.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The sleeping parent of the new Powerful Owlet. At dusk it turned out there was another Powerful Owlet that began trilling behind the adult. This was a surprise as Owlet siblings often roost together and the first looked alone. A very successful year for these POwls. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A new Powerful Owlet! This from a pair that had an owlet that was rescued a couple of years ago, and that we helped with the release of when it had recovered. It looks a lot like that Owlet. So for this season we're up to 15 Owlets, 6 in pairs, 3 singles. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They did. At dusk the owlets followed their parent around after a bit more possum.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Powerful Owlet in a suburban Brisbane park this morning. Surprisingly for daytime, it was trilling constantly. But then we saw one of its parents having a Brushtail lunch nearby in the same tree, and the Owlet joined it a few minutes later. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new Powerful Owl pair! We had found the female in January at a new site. We'd seen and heard her a few times since, but only her, so we'd begun to think she was on her own. But last night we saw them fly out together, and today we found them roosting next to each other. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I agree about the denigration, I hate the pejorative term, though the 'Attenborough' doco on them was very funny. They are just a bird trying to make a living in a difficult human-created environment.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I should have said, "Ibis' having takeaway"

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm afraid it's the damning indictment option.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think it was saving a child at kid's holiday cricket from indigestion.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you, you're very kind. That's mostly why I do it, to help me to notice the details.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Powerful Owlet sketch. I need to get back into the habit of regularly drawing again. Every drawing is practice for the next.

Brush pen sketch of a Powerful Owlet clinging to a branch

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The floof is beginning to be replaced by chevons (heart/bat pattern) on the front of this Powerful Owlet. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

B&W photo of Powerful Owlet on a branch with chevron heart/bat patterning coming through on its front

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This Powerful Owl hadn't been checked on since early May. But there was no trilling in the area at dusk, so the pair appears not to have nested this year. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Powerful Owl sitting on a branch peering at the viewer.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There's only a single breeding season with the Owlets coming out of the hollows late July / early August give or take a week or two. They typically stay with their parents until Jan/Feb/Mar when they head off to find their own territories.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wish I looked that compos mentis before my first coffee.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Powerful Owlet from a few dusks ago. It's interesting how quickly they switch from being slightly alarmed and surprised by everything when they first come out of the hollow. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Floofy Powerful Owlet on a branch looking mildly curious and slightly skeptical.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wonderful! Quite a lot of the pairs we follow in Brisbane never quite settled into the hollow, though they did investigate them. We think it might be because the Winter hardly happened this year. Thankfully, some did still manage to pop out an owlet or two.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Driftwood evolves to look like Tawny Frogmouths as those are the pieces that get selected.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah, they are pretty rubbish. There used to be a pair in the Great Court at the university of qld, and the chicks fell out. The UQ grounds people, bless, brought in a cherry picker to put them back in.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There are Tawny Frogmouths nesting on my street! Here's the male on the nest this afternoon. The males usually do the egg sitting during the day. This is going to be fun to watch, Frogmouths chicks are such muppets. #NotAnOwl #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Male Tawny Frogmouth sitting on his nest.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Powerful Owlet stretching its wings. Even its sibling seems surprised. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

Floofy Powerful Owlet stretching its wings wide as its startled sibling looks on

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

No, this is a different pair of owlet siblings.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Another of the warm Powerful Owlet from 2 days ago. We checked on it yesterday and it was fine. It was roosting about 50m away in a tree with its sibling, and one of its parents was in the next tree. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's fine. Just a bit hot. And the next day we found it looking very well 50m away in another tree with its sibling, and an adult nearby.

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