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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Important reminder of why these are called beautiful firetails 🥰

Gorgeous little black barred grey finch with a spread tail with a fire red rump

Close up of the red rump of the beautiful firetail

Close up of the face of a beautiful firetail with its red beak and blue eye skin and gorgeous black barring

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Very ‘did I leave the oven on’ energy

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m very excited because the regent parrot breeding season has started and in a couple of weeks you’ll get to see these little goofballs again

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These last few weeks I’ve had the good fortune of seeing some pretty spectacular places while we have been chasing scrub birds in Werrikimbee, Gibraltar Range and Border Range National Parks. Going outside is really good for the soul

Scenic rim looking from border ranges north to lamington NP

A lookout in Werrikimbee national park with some big expanses and clouds

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No we were only targeting scrub birds on the ground- no rifle birds down there😭

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We had a great week up in the border range last week where we caught our 10th and 11th scrub birds for a genetic study, plus some amazing other creatures and views 🧡

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wanna see a horrible video of something that most ppl never see? This is a rufous scrub bird singing his head off in the most open habitat I’ve ever seen them in. Normally they’re totally invisible in thick scrub - this one is still fairly invisible

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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

in case you missed it!! new release of @kudelka.bsky.social’s rusted-on bingo tea towels, with $5 from every tea towel sold going to the Jon Kudelka Fund for Glioblastoma Research at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research get yours now!! www.kudelkashop.com/product/rust...

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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Another preprint with Amy Carboon and John Endler on light microhabitat use in Victoria’s riflebird using hemispheric canopy photography, display activity data, and sun track simulations. In short, males display in the VERY early morning under dim light. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Literally incredible even in this shot

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I forgot to share these very cute pictures of a brown gerygone that we caught the other week - look at those huge eyes 👁️👁️🤎

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Such an impressive compilation of data from tracked birds across (most of) the global range and diversity of Whimbrel in this new collaborative paper in Ibis: look at the map - so many major transoceanic movements onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another key finding: study duration matters! Had our study been only 3 years (a typical PhD), we could have concluded ingestion was rising, falling, or flat, purely by chance. 🔵 = plastic decrease ⚪️ = no change 🟠 = plastic increase

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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Each year “the record” is broken, despite our team thinking “surely the birds can’t possibly fit anymore plastics in their stomachs!” But then, in 2025, we found 894 plastics inside a single chick that was only 90 days old 💔 📸 caption: worst chicks in 2010, 2015, 2021, 2025

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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the most important plots we’ve ever made helped us answer a question we’re constantly asked: “is the amount of ingested plastic increasing?” Answer: yes, there’s been a sustained and rapid increase in #plastics in Sable #Shearwaters since 2021

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨 Record-breaking amounts of plastic are being found in seabirds. A 16-year study of sable shearwaters on Australia’s Lord Howe Island has found a sharp rise in the amount of plastic in their stomachs.

Photograph of a dead sable shearwater on a black background next to a mosaic of varied coloured plastic fragments.

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As talks on a Global Plastic Treaty continue, researchers say stronger recycling laws, including for items like bottle lids, will be vital to tackling plastic waste. Would you support a global treaty on plastics? Let us know in the comments 👇

Photograph showing severe plastic pollution along a rocky beach beside a blue sea and mountainous coastline. Thousands of bottles, containers, fishing materials and other discarded plastics cover the foreground, contrasting with clean surf and sandy shoreline.

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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In 2011, one bird was found with 276 pieces of plastic, weighing 64g. By 2023, that record had been smashed, with more than 400 pieces found in a single bird. The record has been broken every year since. Last year, one bird contained 894 pieces of plastic.

Photograph showing researchers holding a sable shearwater over a tray. They are using a pipe inserted into the bird’s mouth to flush its stomach.

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s such a good word and I’m never sure I am using it properly 😂

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know, although they’re super loud in the bush, they’re absolutely silent when handled! What a mercy

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They’re such a fun bird and despite their lack of gaudy primary colours I still love them 🥲

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Check out the gorgeous vermiculation on the feathers of the rufous scrub bird - in the dense ground-cover they hide in their colours make them effectively invisible. Their camouflage is SO good that they can afford to have incredibly loud voices and predators still can’t get them

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am genuinely in love with the cranky face of rufous scrub birds - they’re genuinely the coolest little weirdos

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So good - legitimately these are the most difficult of our difficult birds - blood nightmare of raspberries and cutting grass but my god the dopamine

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Check out the lovely rufous patch on this scrub bird - it’s what gives them their name but 99.99% of ppl never get to see it 🤎

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You can get away with a lot being handsome

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We caught another rufous scrub bird today and he was a little bit dumb which made it a wildly easy job (but he’s handsome too so I guess that’s ok)

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pigeons and doves are literally the best

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New blog post!🚨 Antica Čulina tells the story of how a something that bugged them 15 years ago was finally formalised in a paper on a Risk of Bias assessment in ecological and evolutionary meta-analysis 🌍 🧪 Read the blog here 👇 buff.ly/si6MLJq

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Its never too late – Risk of Bias in ecology and evolutionary biology

Post provided by Antica Čulina Hi, I am Antica. I work as a senior researcher at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Croatia. This is a story about how something that bugged me 15 years ago was finally…

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Something nice to read over your Sunday coffee - we just published an updated gang-gang cockatoo chapter with @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Read about these gorgeously silly birds - some cute videos in there too. birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...

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Gang-gang Cockatoo - Callocephalon fimbriatum - Birds of the World

Species accounts for all the birds of the world.

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One thing about scrub birds that I think is pretty cool is that they have a little shield over their nostrils which I suspect helps them prevent getting twigs up their noses as they scramble around in the super dense scrub they love 🛡️ it makes their nostrils point backwards 👃

Rufous scrub bird in the hand showing their strong wedge shaped head with a funky little covering over their nostrils

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We have been out catching rufous scrub-birds again this week which requires a blood sacrifice to the forest gods for success

6 hands clasped and interlocked absolutely filthy covered in scratches and bandaids

A small brown bird with a white throat held in a hand

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ANU Fenner School @anufennerschool.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For Canberra’s gang-gang Cockatoos, habitat quality isn't just about having hollows, it's about having the right hollows. New research by DBRG @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social, lead by Stacey Taylor, highlights why protecting known nesting trees matters. Read the article: bit.ly/gangganghollows

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Leo @leo-in-merimbula.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Speckled Warbler (from southeast Australia). #BirdOfTheDay #birds #WildOz

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