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Robin Sinclair

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Field Ecologist. Bird nerd. Living in Garramilla/Darwin on Larrakia Country. He/they.

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
There are so many better-qualified Territorians. The NT is full of absolutely brilliant people. Most of them are not very happy with the pick of a bigot. Jobs for mates politics is not just an NT problem. Nice to see so many out this morning making that point. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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Man arrested in chaotic protest against NT Administrator
A protester has been arrested amid chaotic scenes outside of NT Parliament, where David Connolly has been sworn in as the new administrator.
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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This is to be an ongoing thread of wildflowers I see in 2026. IDs to the best of my ability are in the alt text. Feel free to correct me! 1st of January, Kinglake National Park, Victoria:
Blue pincushion, Brunonia australis. A spherical cluster of sky-blue star-shaped flowers on a long green stem.Common fringe-lily,Thysanotus tuberosus. A bright purple flower with long, conspicuous fringes on three petals, such that they look like ostrich-feather fans.Either a Kunzea sp. or a Leptospermum sp., I don’t yet know how to tell the difference from just the flowers. A long narrow branch covered in white flowers each with five rounded petals.Pale vanilla lily, Arthropodium milleflorum. A long, narrow stem with multiple flower buds and one very small open flower which is dropping and has whitish-purplish flowers.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Precious!
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Not quite, but a relative of theirs 🙂
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Neither! They sit in a group alongside the nightjars, Swift's and (bizarrely) hummingbirds 🙂.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
They're a very meme-able bird!
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Bar-tailed godwits at Bald Hill Beach. These are my favourite shorebirds - with their ridiculous beaks 😆 They hold the world record for non-stop long-distance flight with one recorded taking 11 days to fly 13,500km from Alaska to Tasmania. And they do that trip twice each year!
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Oh my goodness! How precious!
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
😆
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
One of three Tawny Frogmouths I encountered on a short walk down the Darwin esplanade last night. They were rather chill, allowing me to get this photo with my phone. #WildOz #UrbanBirds
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
You could always try doing a quick search online 🙂 www.australianwildlife.org/sanctuaries/...
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Bullo River Station
Bullo River Station is a working cattle station and the site of a pioneering conservation partnership in the north-west of the Northern Territory.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Read more about our work at Bullo River: www.australianwildlife.org/sanctuaries/...
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Bullo River Station
Bullo River Station is a working cattle station and the site of a pioneering conservation partnership in the north-west of the Northern Territory.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A Long-footed Frog (Cyclorana longipes), one of many, many frogs we encountered at Bullo River Station last week after some of the first big rains if the season. #WildOz
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Michael Dahlstrom @michaeldahlstrom.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Over five years after cameras were set up within a sprawling Western Australian landscape, an elusive “chuditch” has been filmed for the first time. au.news.yahoo.com/camera-captu...
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Camera captures rare Aussie predator believed extinct across 70km landscape
A $5 million project has helped change the region, allowing for the animal's return.
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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Talked to ABC country hour today about the big fire season in the NT through October. The chat became short but neat story about the last few weeks of action. The hottest October on record, nowhere near the biggest fire year but still pretty big. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Eight million hectares burnt during record hot October in NT
Last month nearly 8 million hectares were burnt in the Northern Territory, an area bigger than the entire state of Tasmania.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A rather gregarious Rainbow Pitta (Pitta iris) looking resplendent among the leaf litter at Binybara/Lee Point in Darwin. #WildOz
A rainbow pitta standing upright on a patch of forest floor. It has moss green wings with a neon blue patch at the shoulder, a small cap of red on its head and a velvet black head and front.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A northern rosella (Platycercus venustus) spotted during bird surveys at AWC's Wongalara Wildlife Sanctuary on Rembarrnga and Ngalakan Country. #WildOz
A northern rosella perches on a bare branch with a grey sky in the background. It is looking at the camera with a glint in its eye. It has blue wings, with yellow and black feathers on its front giving a scalloped appearance, red on its rump and a black and white head.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
One of several buff-sided robins (Poecilodryas cerviniventris) which live around the homestead at AWC's Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary. These insectivorous birds are generally found in densely vegetated habitat by streams and rivers across much of northern Australia. #WildOz
A buff-sided Robin perched on a twig. It is a black, white and grey bird with a buff patch under its wings. It is holding its wings down and its tail is cocked.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Yep, that's my understanding. We have roost caves on Pungalina too, but we only visit them when we need to survey the population because they are sensitive to human disturbance.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Ghost bats (Macroderma gigas) are Australia's only bat species that feeds on large vertebrates. On a recent fieldwork trip to AWC's Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary, we visited one of their feeding caves where we found remains of owlet nightjars and rainbow bee-eaters caught by bats 😮. #WildOz
A pile of colourful feathers plucked from a rainbow bee-eater and discarded by a ghost bat.The two detached wings of an owlet nightjar sitting on a cave floor.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
It's doing really well. I've just started working there so I don't have a good frame of reference, but the habitats are looking really healthy, the fire program is going well and feral herbivores are being managed well.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Thanks! Very lucky to be in the right place at the right time 😊
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Thank you!
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A jacky winter at Hattah-Kulkyne National Park.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Gouldian Ficnhes are listed as endangered under the EPBC act, with numbers once thought to be as low as 2500. Their primary threat is inappropriate fire regimes resulting in large, hot late dry season fires which destroy the tree hollows the nest in and reduce the availability of the seed they eat
About 8 Gouldian Finches perched in a tree. There is a mix of adult and juvenile bird with both red and black faces.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A highlight of a recent fieldwork trip to AWC's Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary was seeing my first Gouldian Finches. We only got a brief look at a group of 6 on sanctuary (thrilling nonetheless) but then on the way back to Darwin we had ~130 of them visit our campsite in Limmen National Park. #WildOz
Six Gouldian Finches, five sat on a lawn with a sixth coming in to land, it's wings outstretched behind it. There is one dull grey-green juvenile bird and five colourful adults. The adults have a yellow belly, purple chests, green back and bright blue on their tail and ringing their faces, which are either red or black.
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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Another #spider for the end of #Arachtober 🕷️ Meet the incredibly handsome Banksia Peacock spider (Maratus mungaich). He’ll use those amazing colours on his abdomen to try and impress the lady spiders #ausinverts #wildoz #arachnids #inaturalist #nature
Picture of a small spider with a dazzlingly colourful abdomen in greens and reds
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Kristi Ellingsen @kristiellingsen.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa
Most of a wolf spider, taken from directly above.  The last segments of a few legs have been cut off by the frame.  It is standing on holy salty sand, so the background looks like a solid slab of black specked beige.  The spider is a mainly soft grey body with four black eyes showing.  The abdomen is marked with a grey line and black rimmed blobs all over it.  This made it incredibly hard to see if you weren't paying close attention.  The legs are a more pinky white with diffuse black barring.  If it was big enough people would be wearing the "pelt" as luxury coats.  It's gorgeous.The same spider taken from a low angle, looking at the face slightly angled.  This shows the female palps and the entire set of 8 black eyes.  It also showed how the spider was right up on its "toes" ready for a fast get-away (or maybe the blinding white salt was hot to stand on). There is a bit of a shadow from the intense sunlight.   Spider description is on the other photo.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Stunning!
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
It certainly wasn't getting any of my coffee! 😁
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Fantastic! What bird is that?
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Sadly, I don't think hash brown is part of a healthy bird diet 😕
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Not this time 😁 I didn't think hash brown would be good for it 🙃
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Cheers!
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I feel so lucky to have it close to home!
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Was it a pleasant song? I feel like it's hit or miss with friarbirds 😁
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Not this time 😁
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Yep! They're found pretty much everywhere. The same species all around the world! 🙂
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
How special!
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Woah!
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"Please may I have some hash brown?" A little friarbird interrupting my breakfast down at East Point in Darwin a little while ago.
A little friarbird perched atop a picnic table with a tree, some mulch and the ocean in the background. The friarbird is pale grey, with darker grey fings and tail feathers. It's face is masked with bare, black skin and it has a slightly downcurved, pointy black beak.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Fantastic pic!
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Possibly, although I don't know if I'm familiar enough with the species to be able to tell
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Do people still use this app? Anyway, here's a pheasant coucal in the botanic gardens in Darwin. A truly stupendous bird. #WildOz
A large bird sites in a chain link fence. The bird has a dark head, large somewhat menacing bill, speckled dark brown wings and a long dark tail feathers with light brown barring.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Click through to read more about how and why we have conducted this translocation: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Woylies jump at chance to leave bush sanctuary and take on feral cats
Exposure to predators is the next key stage in the endangered marsupial's gradual reintroduction to country Western Australia.
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
This morning I caught up with one of the Woylies we recently released outside the feral-predator free area at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary. It seems to be doing well two weeks post-release. 📍Badimia Country #WildOz ⚠️ Animal handled for monitoring purposes with required training and permits
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Honoured and humbled to join such a stellar group of people! From Environment Centre N.T. "A powerful gathering of changemakers shaping the future of Country and climate in the North.” Tickets 👉 environmentcentrent.company.site/Australias-G...
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Thanks! It was a very obliging subject ☺️
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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
It's always a good day when you see a numbat ☺️ 📍Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary, Badimia Country
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