Reposted by HP WaudbyDominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Submitted a paper this week to Arctic Science proposing a new way to index collared lemming abundance in the polar desert. The method uses the urine marks lemmings naturally leave on plastic cards placed in their habitat for 48 hours. I call it the pee-card method! 🧪🌿🌎🦊 #wildlife #Arctic #North 16113
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Nice chorus of Endangered Sloane’s froglets (and a few other species) at CSU’s David Mitchell wetlands yesterday afternoon. The Thurgoona campus is a hotspot for them #wildoz #threatenedspecies #wetlands @gulbali-institute.bsky.social 0113
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 31/07/2025www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...abc.net.auGardeners unite to save 'spectacular' grevillea in Snowy MountainsThere are fewer than 1,000 in the wild, but it is hoped a group of green thumbs can help save the Tumut grevillea from extinction. 0116
Reposted by HP WaudbyCSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · 28/07/2025In2016, conservation biologist @jodirowley.bsky.social embarked on a mission into some of the most rugged terrain in Australia, the Northern Tablelands of NSW, to find a tiny rare frog, which hadn’t been seen in over 40 years. But what she found was unexpected: cosmosmagazine.com/magazine/fin... 163
Reposted by HP WaudbyCSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Jodi's adventure of rediscovery is one of many precarious, hilarious and thought-provoking stories from the front line of ecology fieldwork included in our book, Wild Science, edited by @hpwaudby.bsky.social. Find it in bookshops or online: www.publish.csiro.au/book/8128/ 042
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Amazing image of one of Australia’s unique and Critically Endangered bird species. So good to see them breeding! This kind of sighting would be a once in a lifetime experience for many people. David has been working on the species for over 20 years now. 0100
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Ever had that feeling of being watched..? Reminded when I looked up from frog surveys to find I was the one being surveyed. By a southern bell frog. Creep. 061
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Wonderful discovery by one of my colleagues. Really demonstrates the critical importance of repeated surveys in threatened species conservation and planning. 1386
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Massive rainbow after a storm at Nanya Station in south west NSW. Couldn’t help but smile. 0171
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Some solid rainfall in NSW’s south west mallee last week. Enough to encourage burrowing frogs to make their way to the surface. Lots of these little Sudell’s frogs out looking for a mate #wildoz #frogs #desertrain #Neobatrachus 0125
Reposted by HP WaudbyProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Hot off the press! One of former PhD student and now Dr Ange Pestell's thesis chapters esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Continued cross-disciplinary collaboration is needed to ensure large environmental datasets are available to train & test machine learning algorithms.esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comSmart camera traps and computer vision improve detections of small faunaLimited data on species' distributions are common for small animals, impeding conservation and management. Small animals, especially ectothermic taxa, are often difficult to detect, and therefore req.... 0244
Reposted by HP WaudbyThe Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 27/02/2025End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour now. As hundreds of thousands of salmon are dying, the PM is throwing public money at the polluting, tax-avoiding foreign corporations, putting them over Australia's people and wildlife. It has to stop. Add your name: theaus.in/save_the_skate 9285122
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 26/02/2025It’s been a quiet week of fauna monitoring in far south west NSW. This young knob-tailed gecko (Nephrurus levis) was a highlight. Adults can get up to ~10 cm. This one was around 5. Those eyes… #WildOz 3414
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Pie-dish beetles (Helea spp.) are so cool. They use their exaggerated flanges a bit like a shield to fend off predators. We see lots of them in the mallee #Coleoptera #WildOz 412927
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The mallee of south west NSW is a magic place at twilight. Heat still radiating off the sand. Birds winding down for the day. 090
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Common brown butterfly (Heteronympha merope) on this morning’s walk. Fluttering its last as it lay on the path. Typically lots around Albury at this time of year. 0182
Reposted by HP WaudbyDr Vanessa Pirotta @drvanessapirotta.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Get ready for goosebumps, this is my FAVOURITE moment from the 2024 @marinemammalogy.bsky.social conference held in Perth, Western Australia. #whale 172
Reposted by HP WaudbyRicki Coughlan @rickicoughlan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Christmas Bells right on cue in Royal National Park . . . 2476
Reposted by HP WaudbyKathryn Selmes @kathrynselmes.bsky.social · 15/12/2024This beautiful, tiny cuckoo wasp (~8mm) has been loitering around my insect hotel, waiting for a suitable wasp to lay an egg. Once laid, she will then lay hers, which will hatch first and eat all the food left for the other wasp. #wasps #insects #nature #backyardbiodiversity #kleptoparasitism 36911
Reposted by HP WaudbyTim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 14/12/2024And this cracker by Helen Waudby @euanritchie.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social et al. 1143
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Tiny wildflowers still waving their heads above the drying grasslands of the NSW Riverina. Bindweed, mallee fringe-lily & yellow rush lilies. 081
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 11/12/2024www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24065?j...publish.csiro.auGirrimarring wiirrilgal bulany ngayanbading (bat nest-type fur sun-like): blending traditional knowledge and western science to create roosting habitat for the threatened golden-tipped bat Phoniscus p...Context Despite being widely distributed along eastern Australia, the golden-tipped bat (Phoniscus papuensis) is listed as Vulnerable in New South Wales (NSW). The 2019–2020 wildfires affected an esti... 041
Reposted by HP WaudbyProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Buy @hpwaudby.bsky.social’s book, it’s full of cracking yarns www.publish.csiro.au/book/8128/?f... 1317
Reposted by HP WaudbyRicki Coughlan @rickicoughlan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Whoa! I'm feeling very satisfied, accomplished and just so deeply rewarded by this simple reality. The proof has arrived and it's everything I hoped it would be. I had next to no sleep last night but as of tomorrow I will be doing a final edit and then, it will be on sale. #birds #birding 810521
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Great to be back out in the field after 7 months of parental leave. Listening to the water birds fussing about and bell frogs calling at Gayini on twilight was a bit magic… 0151
Reposted by HP WaudbyDr Manu Saunders FRES @manusaunders.bsky.social · 18/09/2024Got my copy! Thanks @hpwaudby.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this awesome collection of stories highlighting the diversity of experiences working with nature. Hope this book inspires more readers to explore ecology and conservation opportunities! 🌏 publish.csiro.au/book/8128/ 082
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 21/07/2024www.publish.csiro.au/book/8128/publish.csiro.auWild ScienceWhat’s it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen for 40 years? From deserts to rainforests and even t... 011
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 01/07/2024Desert heath-myrtle, Baeckea crassifolia (south west of Alice Springs, NT) #wildflowers 060
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 09/12/2023Anurophagy is fairly common in larger frog species like the southern bell frog. It’s always fascinating to observe during monitoring #wildoz 040
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 11/11/2023Checking nest boxes I set up to try and entice western pygmy possums living in the mallee in far south-west New South Wales. No actual possum yet (75 more boxes to go), but did find a promising little leaf nest in one #wildoz 170
Reposted by HP Waudbyjuli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 24/10/2023In defense of NATURAL HISTORY, a discipline in danger "We are all interested in understanding the natural world, but we often fall into the habit of abstracting our research away from its natural contexts & complexities" @KNanglu 🧪🌍 #evolution biodiversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 02917
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 20/10/2023Just accepted in Australian Journal of Zoology, our paper on Aprasia inauritapublish.csiro.auSpatial prioritisation of survey and management efforts for a threatened pygopod in south-western NS...Determining species’ distributions is challenging for cryptic species that are difficult to detect using standard techniques. The mallee worm-lizard (Aprasia inaurita Kluge 1974) is a cryptic reptil... 121
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 17/10/2023Chariot wheels (Maireana cheelii) are a federally listed threatened species. Pretty cool to see how ants collect the fruit and leave it lying around the entrance to their nest. I was told that it’s often the first tip off to the species’ presence! 061
Reposted by HP WaudbyDr Kylie Soanes @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social · 04/10/2023Did you know that cities are great places for nature conservation? In fact, sometimes they’re *necessary*. Our research found 39 threatened species that ONLY occur in Australia’s urban environments. So we better get better at sharing cities with nature theconversation.com/the-39-endange… 15017
Reposted by HP WaudbyDr Kylie Cairns @drcairns.bsky.social · 03/10/2023I’m new to #BlueSky - aiming to continue my scicom about dingoes, dogs and hybridisation. A few months ago I published the results of a 6+ year study updating DNA methods for dingo ancestry testing. Surprisingly we found hybridization was uncommon in Australia! theconversation.com/new-dna-test... 0308
HP Waudby @hpwaudby.bsky.social · 25/09/2023Just gave my annual lecture to Federation University students doing their Arid Zone Ecology course. Really engaged bunch of students with insightful questions. Keeps me hopeful. 081