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Gavin Gatenby

@gavingatenby.bsky.social
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Retired NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service officer. My videos, mostly about Australian wildlife, can be seen on Werrong Lane: www.YouTube.com/user/possm1. Check it out! I stand with Ukraine! 🇦🇺🇺🇦 I block bullshit accounts.

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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/10/2026
HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shared values, Mr Marles? I think not....
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tony and Wendy from Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group (Dams Heg) respond to todays High Court of Australia decision that “Australia can no longer dig up coal, ship it overseas, watch it drive climate change, and then pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us.”
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Twitter Exile @twitter-exile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#JewishCouncilOfAustralia While much of the world's focus has been on #Gaza, #Israel has also been escalating its efforts to dismantle Palestinian life in the #WestBank. Next week on 14 Oct we have the privilege of hosting a lunchtime webinar with leading Israeli human rights group #BTselem #AUSPOL
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The White-bellied Sea Eagle is found right around the Australian coast as well as PNG, SE Asia, India and Sri Lanka. The sexes are similar but the female is slightly larger. Wingspan can be over 2m. Prey on fish, birds, turtles, reptiles and small mammals and eat carrion. #birds #eagles #WildOz
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Israel’s strained relationship with the UN began with Zionist terrorists killing a UN mediator; Count Folke Bernadotte. He proposed Palestinians have the right of return & was murdered for it. Those murderers would then go on to become prime minister of Israel; Yitzhak Shamir.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 02/10/2026
🔴 “We had to drink our own urine,” a captured Russian soldier revealed after surrendering to Ukraine’s Third Army Corps. He stated that their officers turned off the radio and abandoned them.
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Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a very important observation about One Nation candidates #auspol 2 minutes of your time to watch, please and thankyou.
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dusk, and the balmy evening is swarming with Bogong moths emerging from their day-time hiding places. It seems they're partial to a sip or two of chardonnay to see them on their way to Kosciuszko. One for the road guys! #moths #WildOz
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
David Shoebridge has been announced as the new leader of the Greens, with Steph Hodgins-May as deputy. Solid choice #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Breaking: David Shoebridge named new Greens leader after three-way contest
After a rare leadership ballot for the Greens, the NSW senator becomes the sixth leader in the party's history.
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Two marsupial species believed to have become extinct thousands of yrs ago rediscovered in West Papua. Well done Tim Flannery and crew! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea
The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says
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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lots of vibrant Green Scarab Beetles (Diphucephala colaspidoides) around at the moment, making the most of the abundant spring wildflowers 💚 #ausinverts #wildoz #beetles #Coleoptera #bugsky #inaturalist
Bright green, shiny beetle on a bright yellow flowerTwo bright green, shiny beetles on a cluster of bright yellow fluffy flowers
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once, decades ago, I was delegated to supervise the disposal of a Humpback Whale carcass. Broke in half while we tried to drag it with a backhoe. Eventually we dug a huge hole in the beach, shoved it in and buried it. Idea was to dig it up years later and recover the skeleton for a museum. #WildOz
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So far, thankfully, no reports of Australian Fur Seals catching the dreaded H5 Bird Flu. I've been checking on this haul-out site on an isolated rock at Burrawarra Point, Guerrilla Bay on the NSW South Coast. Around 20 seals there. extreme telephoto from the lookout. #BirdFlu #WildOz #Seals
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's been a good year for Aust's wonderful Bogong Moth! Annual migration from their autumn/winter feeding grounds to their cooler summer aestivation sites is in full swing. Although officially a night-flying moth, ATM, they're very active during the day. These are feeding on Coastal Tea-tree.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@jackiandaspen performs an operatic duet together. 🦜🎶🎙️ "Just two highly trained musicians performing Queen of the Night together. One of us has a music degree; The other one poops on me." #bird #music #opera #talent
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A beautiful Chequered Swallowtail butterfly seen in my garden a few days ago. Fast, powerful fliers. This is the Australian subspecies. One of the world's most widespread butterflies and can turn up anywhere in Australia. Feeding on Coast Rosemary (Westringa fruticosa). #WildOz #butterflies
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 26/09/2026
Australian scientists develop world-first satellite technology to measure eucalypt flammability
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Scientists develop tech to measure eucalypt flammability from space
Homegrown technology to monitor the flammability of eucalypt forests could be Australia's first satellite mission for Earth observation, if scientists can raise the funds.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 26/09/2026
'Emergency extractions' of wild birds considered as H5 bird flu spreads in Victoria
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Victoria considers 'emergency extractions' of wildlife as bird flu spreads
With the spread of H5 bird flu around Australia, Victoria is looking for ways to protect threatened species.
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Constantine @teoyaomiquu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/12 Hello everyone. I’m starting another fundraiser to get engineering equipment to Ukraine. I’m asking for your help by donating, reposting, and liking. Even if you can’t donate, sharing genuinely makes a difference. Donation link: givebutter.com/liberty-engi...
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a really important read. It explains how the Trump-Netanyahu war in the Middle East is pushing global industry and agriculture to the brink of catastrophe by starving nations of critical diesel fuel. skywriter.blue/@chriso-wiki...
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1/ Russia has the United States over a (diesel) barrel, says Russian analyst Igor Dimitriev. He says that the Kremlin is telling the West that "if you don't hand Ukraine over to us, a global [fuel] cr...
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
😵‍💫 Russian Journalists: When to Moscow? 🇺🇦 Zelensky: On a missile, b*tch! 😄
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AI IS OUT OF CONTROL
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Precisely why I, a civilian, bought a Japanese EV, and not Chinese brand. Best not to give an extreme authoritarian regime a military-intelligence advantage (and I don’t care what Paul Keating and the old-time Labor Thatcherite right-wingers think).
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Bethany Williams @bethanyincbr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just sharing this for all the Zionists arguing with me on here denying the Palestinian genocide. “Yes, it is GENOCIDE”. Amos Goldberg is an Israeli professor of Holocaust history & genocide researcher in the Department of Jewish History & Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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T @terry-157.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/cidb... Watch! Now they lie to cover up for their Master.
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A massacre of trucks attempting to resupply Russia's thin line attempting to hold back Ukraine's Vivaldi offensive.
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I believe there’s a lot more species, even mammals, reptiles, amphibians, marine species, and birds — let alone insects and other invertebrates — to be discovered. But to identify a new cat species is really something!
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The Spangled Drongo is the only drongo found in Australia. They're insectivores that migrate down the east coast, occasionally as far as Tasmania, to breed, arriving in spring and leaving with their juveniles midsummer. Has a complex and varied call and is also a mimic. #birds, #wildoz, #drongo
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Oh Palestine, Oh Palestine" by @sethstatonwatkins.bsky.social Breathtakingly powerfully moving song of solidarity with the people of Palestine, suffering under Israel's brutal, illegal occupation. #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine youtu.be/LYRQ_f2giL8?...
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Oh Palestine, Oh Palestine (Original Song) by Seth Staton Watkins
YouTube video by Seth Staton Watkins
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 16/09/2026
update: this makes it, temporarily, the cheapest CAR in australia, not just the cheapest EV
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History made! $19,990 BYD Atto 1 becomes Australia’s cheapest new car as EV price war hits new low - EV Central
An electric vehicle has become Australia’s cheapest new car for the first time, with BYD slashing the Atto 1 Essential to a record-low $19,990 driveaway nationwide.
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Greens want a public housing developer to ensure people’s right to quality homes ahead of developer profits. The govt did it after WWII - they directly built 26% of all homes nationally. A public developer would deliver homes for communities. Homes before profits!
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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Australian Government has announced a A$2.4bn investment to modernise the country’s air and missile defence systems. The National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) has also achieved final operational capability (FOC). #ADF www.army-technology.com/news/austral....
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Australia announces $1.7bn investment to boost air and missile defence
The Australian government has announced a A$2.4bn ($1.7bn) investment aimed at modernising the country’s air and missile defence systems.
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But hey, Jacinta Price, that’s the right-wing politics you signed up for! You and your worship of all things Trumpian. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Jacinta Price turns on Pauline Hanson over ‘primitive’ Indigenous comments
The Indigenous Coalition senator has drawn a firm line against the One Nation leader, accusing her of dragging legitimate policy debate into “appalling territory”.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
💥🌊BREAKING: The first naval battle in history between two unmanned surface vessels has taken place in the Black Sea. A Ukrainian Navy Sargan 3000 USV, armed with a 12.7 mm Protector RWS, engaged and destroyed a Russian naval drone.
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Russian warbloggers demoralised and frantic about important Ukrainian advances N and E of Lyman, which Ukraine recaptured early in the war inflicting heavy losses on the Russian army. The present offensive said to be spearheaded by anti-Putin Russian exile forces. watch this space!
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Tranquility Found @divinedropbear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Spring is in the air! I was mesmerised by this Black Swan courtship dance #birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #WildOz #swan
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Davoyager @davoyager.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ya think?
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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Full marks to #Andrew Hastie MP and @jacquilambie.bsky.social for calling Pauline Hanson out on Radio National this morning. They both know what a lazy opportunist Hanson is who can only damage Australia.If you are silly enough to consider voting for ON have a look at trumps America…a shambles.
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In spite of the truely massive political gulf between us I must come out on Hastie’s side on this one. As a soldier he had the gut-basic decency and honour to stand witness against ghastly war crimes by a member of the special forces unit he served in. Hastie is no traitor to Australia. #AusPol
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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#RealHeroes Vs #Genocide and #WarCrimes by #Israel.
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great story here from the ABC! Really exciting to see progress being made in returning threatened native species to part of their former range in Western NSW. #WildOz #marsupials #AustralianWildlife www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Decade-long experiment in outback NSW changing the landscape
Once locally extinct across outback NSW, bilbies, bandicoots and bettongs are now back and breeding. The desert's revival has been led by a young couple who moved their lives way out west a decade ago...
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A Straitjacket is needed, badly.
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 07/09/2026
Australia has installed half a million home batteries in the last year. But how many have been installed in remote, end-of-grid and off-grid communities? Next to none ow.ly/t2wU50ZJYr8
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Outback Australia has desperate need for rooftop PV and batteries to cut crippling dependence on imported diesel
Australia has installed half a million home batteries in the last year. But how many have been installed in remote, end-of-grid and off-grid communities? Next to none.
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Gavin Gatenby @gavingatenby.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Seen in a local cafe. I’m a long black drinker myself and this certainly resonates with me.
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Israeli bulldozers completely destroyed the village of Khirbet al-Tabban yesterday in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, making it the 66th village to be completely destroyed by Israel, Seventy people added to the already 1000s displaced, now left without shelter.
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Story of bas Monde @troublingtome.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When anyone, ever Defends the indefensible war crimes of Israel Just show them the truth of what the Father of Israel said Debate? He silenced that Just saying
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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hanson really had that pedophile aura Milo advocated for men to be able to have sex with 13 year old boys
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
EXTRAORDINARY MOST EXTREME EVENT IN HISTORY What s going on in South Africa is beyond any possible comprehnsion. Weeks and weeks with 40C even above 1000m/1500m asl in winter. After breaking every single record of June,July,August,September records are already being brutalized.
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