Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a Beach Stone-Curlew 'Esacus magnirostris' from Nightcliff NT, Australia #BirdsSeenIn2026 0182
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityGreat Southern Bioblitz @gsbioblitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Smiles and GSB spirit in Nairobi! Tobias and Suvarna are helping build enthusiasm for iNaturalist and biodiversity recording in Kenya. Thank you both for flying the GSB flag high! Join us for #GSB2026, 27–30 November. buff.ly/mnOdzR0 065
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityRoyal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026⏳ One month left to enter the RES #InsectWeek Photography Competition! If you've been meaning to sort through your favourite insect photographs, now's the time. We can't wait to see the incredible images you've captured. 📸 Deadline: 31 October buff.ly/rdahCIpbuff.lyRoyal Entomological Society Photography Competitions - Insect WeekRoyal Entomological Society 034
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityGreat Southern Bioblitz @gsbioblitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026🌏 Only 60 days until #GSB2026! 🌿 94 local and regional projects 🗺️ 35 countries and territories 📅 Observations: 27–30 November Our Southern Africa coordinator Suvarna has also been flying the GSB flag high in Kenya! Join us: buff.ly/mnOdzR0 056
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Today is the last day for the Rapid Creek Home River Bioblitz 2026. So get out and explore and record its wonderful biodiversity 021
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Splendid day down at rapid creek, we have found so many interesting things! 010
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026🌿 Rapid Creek already has 2,866 iNaturalist observations covering 755 species! Common sightings include Chalky Perchers, Slender Skimmers and Rainbow Bee-eaters. Explore the creek from 18–20 September and record what you find. #HomeRiverBioBlitz #RapidCreek 031
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026🌊 The Home River BioBlitz starts tomorrow @ Rapid Creek! From 18–20 September, people around the world will explore their local rivers and record biodiversity using iNaturalist. Join the seventh #HomeRiverBioBlitz—organise an event or make observations along your local river! 🌿🐟 040
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🌊 The Home River BioBlitz begins in two days! From 18–20 September, explore Rapid Creek and record its plants, animals, fungi and other wildlife on iNaturalist. Every observation helps document the biodiversity of this important urban waterway. #HomeRiverBioBlitz #RapidCreek 030
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 15/09/2026🌿 Home River BioBlitz 2026 – Rapid Creek Join Stephen Fricker to explore and record Rapid Creek’s wildlife using iNaturalist. 📅 Saturday 19 September, 8.00 am 📍 Charles Eaton Drive car park, 150 m from McMillans Road Club members’ field trip. Bring insect protection! 031
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityGreat Southern Bioblitz @gsbioblitz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026🌏 Only 75 days until #GSB2026! From 27–30 November, help document the incredible biodiversity of the Southern Hemisphere using iNaturalist. 🌿🦋🐦🍄 Find your local project: buff.ly/7Y5pPUQ 📲 Upload and identify observations by 14 December 2026. Where will you explore during #GSB2026? 2117
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Our project covers the Top End, Northern Territory in Australia. It will be an interesting year. 001
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityNaturalistaUY @naturalistauy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Este año, la Gran Biobúsqueda del Sur será del 27 al 30 de noviembre y por sexto año consecutivo, ¡nos sumamos desde Uruguay! Guardate la fecha 🌎💚 @gsbioblitz.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social @biodiversidata.bsky.social 066
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The impressive 'Poecilobdallus formosus' from Katherine recently. A massive and quite handsome bug www.inaturalist.org/observations... 041
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Check out this Green Lynx Spider 'Peucetia albescens'? I found just north of Katherine NT this week www.inaturalist.org/observations... 031
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This weekend is threatened species week so come and meet the Territory Wildlife Park's newest resident this Saturday. 031
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 30/08/2026🌿 NT Field Naturalists explored Berry Springs Nature Park on 16 August, recording: 📸 100 observations 🌱 44 species 👥 5 observers 🔎 28 identifiers Explore the records or contribute your own: www.inaturalist.org/projects/ter... #iNaturalist #CitizenScienceinaturalist.orgNT Field Naturalists explore Berry Springs Nature ParkOn 16 August 2026, members of the NT Field Naturalists visited Berry Springs Nature Park to explore and document the area’s biodiversity. Together, five observers contributed: 100 observations 44 spec... 000
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 07/06/2026🌿🎯 June iNaturalist Bingo is here! How many of these species can you find this month? 📸🐦🕷️🐊 Upload your observations to iNaturalist, tick them off your card, and see if you can complete a row, or the whole card! Every observation helps document local biodiversity and supports citizen science. 110
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Looking forward to seeing the entries for this! 010
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityNational Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026El Niño is one of the most important climate patterns affecting weather across the globe. It shapes temperatures, rainfall and extreme events - with impacts that extend to economies, infrastructure and human health. ncas.ac.uk/el-nino-expl... #earth-science #SciComm 🧪ncas.ac.ukEl Niño explained: Global weather, UK impacts, and climate change - NCASEl Niño shapes temperatures, rainfall and extreme events - with impacts that extend to economies, infrastructure and human health. 0117
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityMartin Price @smart0406.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Forest Kingfisher - near Mossman, Queensland #Australia #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 1327
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityiNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026She wasn't looking for anything special … but found a scientific first. Read the full story via our newsletter, The Nature Notice: www.inaturalist.org/pages/newsle... 1338
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Have you seen these guys around #Darwin? 010
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Bar-shouldered Dove from 'Geopelia humeralis' Darwin, #Australia. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birdsofoz 0102
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026No not Aedes vigilax, this is 'Aedes phaecasiatus' from Nhulunbuy, NT species 120 on the #MozzieMonitors project on @inaturalist, and the only record of the species on the platform. While the two look similar to the trained eye they are quite distinct. www.inaturalist.org/observations... 041
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Green Oriole 'Oriolus flavocinctus' snacking on some figs in Jabiru, #Australia #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birdsofoz 0112
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityAussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Monopis argillacea (I think) A moth we've seen only a handful of times in our Perth Hills garden. If my ID is correct, the caterpillars of this moth feed on feathers lining birds' nests and hair on dead animals... not the nicest of diets! #teammoth #ausinverst #wildoz #Lepidoptera #inaturalist 1231
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityWA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Starting to see a few more of our native flowers making their appearance in the Perth Hills now… which means the bush is starting to look more colourful 🌿 Andersonia lehmanniana Drosera collina Styphelia nitens Hibbertia hypericoides #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #inaturalist 19421
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I was in Pine Creek, #Australia last week and saw so many Hooded Parrots 'Psephotellus dissimilis' they really are splendid birds. #BirdsSeenIn2026 0194
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 20/05/2026🐝 #WorldBeeDay - Northern Territory 1,022 bee observations across 76 species on iNaturalist! Top sightings include European Honey #Bee, Amegilla walkeri & Orange-footed Stingless Bee 📢 to 264 observers & 132 identifiers on iNaturalist helping document NT’s pollinators #CitizenScience 020
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityWA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Caladenia drummondii - the Winter Spider Orchid One of the first spider orchids of the season to flower in Western Australia. These orchids can be hard to spot, not only are they really small but they blend in against the forest leaf litter. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist 🌿 39019
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 09/05/2026That is an amazing effort 339 species and counting! We hope all your participants had an amazing time! 010
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityiNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Nature is everywhere, even in the busiest cities. From April 24–27, over 100k people around the world will step outside & photograph the wild nature around them for the #CityNatureChallenge — the largest annual community science event. 🧵⤵️ 27530
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The Varied Eggfly 'Hypolimnas bolina' the most common of the 19 species of Butterflies (Superfamily Papilionoidea) recorded on iNaturalist in the recent Darwin and Palmerston #CNC2026 inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations... 042
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026A Shining Flycatcher 'Myiagra alecto' deep in the mangroves of Rapid Creek during the #CNC2026 #BirdsSeenIn2026 #wildoz #Australia #birdsofoz 0112
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Tropical Paper Wasp Polistes stigma (I think) from Tiwi, what a great time of year up here so many interesting insects around inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations... 041
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Endemic to Mexico 'Calligrapha pantherina' was introduced to control some common invasive weeds, another species recorded last weekend in the #CSN2026 inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations... 032
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Rose-crowned Fruit Dove 'Ptilinopus regina' adult and juvenile from east point Darwin, #Australia #BirdsSeenIn2026 0174
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityStephen Fricker @stephenfricker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026A Silver Gull 'Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae' I saw during the #CNC2026 along the Nightcliff foreshore #BirdsSeenIn2026 #wildoz #Australia #birdsofoz 0214
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Dead stingray washed up on the beach. probably a Whiptail Stingrays Family Dasyatida, Can you help ID further www.inaturalist.org/observations... 010
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 01/05/2026The observation period for the #CNC2026 is over, now the ID's start. Western Rainbowfish 'Melanotaenia australis' do you agree? If you do please help by confirming the ID on iNaturalist.org www.inaturalist.org/observations... 010
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 25/04/2026This City Nature Challenge, we will be celebrating nature in Darwin & Palmerston with the Field Naturalists tomorrow Sunday 26 April at 8.30 am at Casuarina Coastal Reserve. Meet in the free beach carpark at the end of Daribah Road. 010
Reposted by Top End Biodiversitygreen-jewel.bsky.social @green-jewel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026CITY NATURE CHALLENGE Loja Biodiversa 2026 Green Jewel en coordinación con Carrera de Ingeniería Forestal, realizaron la capacitación sobre "Ciencia Ciudadana y Uso de iNaturalist" a estudiantes de Ingeniería Forestal de la Universidad Nacional de Loja que participaran del City Nature Challenge 032
Reposted by Top End BiodiversityEcoRecord @ecorecord.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Today we kicked off our City Nature Challenge activities, with an iNaturalist training session and wildlife walk at Handworth Park! It was great to see so many people using iNaturalist to record the park's wildlife! 183
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 23/04/20261 DAY TO GO! 🌿🐾 Tomorrow’s the day! Join the City Nature Challenge in Darwin and Palmerston and help showcase the amazing biodiversity right in our backyard. Snap a photo, record a sound, and upload it to iNaturalist 📸 Every observation counts- let’s make this our biggest year yet! 💚 010
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 22/04/2026No worries, also the BOM Website usually provides updates but the old site not the expensive white elephant www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso...bom.gov.au 050
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 22/04/2026www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...abc.net.auWhat could a 'super El Niño' mean for Australia's weather in 2026Follow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster. 1112
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Two Days to go! This weekend The City Nature challenge, Darwin and Palmerston will be held all weekend, use the iNaturalist.org platform to upload your nature record 010
Top End Biodiversity @topendbiodiversity.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Not long till the #CNC2026 … and it’s not just what you see Tracks, feathers, nests, shells — the signs of life count too. Not every observation needs the organism itself 👀 Look closer 010
