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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This bird's tail is longer than its entire body! The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher trails ribbon streamers that open and close like scissors in flight. In spring the male throws himself into a "sky dance," rocketing up and tumbling through backwards! #birds #nature #birb #animals

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is it a cat? Meet the jaguarundi. With its long low body, stubby legs and small flat head, this wildcat looks nothing like a cat, locals literally call it the "otter cat." It even chirps like a bird, with a vocabulary of around #cats #wildlife #nature #animals

two jaguarundi. cats in the wild at night

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A meerkat will hand its pup a live scorpion on purpose...and it's good parenting! Meerkats are known to actively teach their young. An adult bites the stinger off a scorpion, passes the disarmed prey to a pup, then makes each lesson harder as the youngster learns. #wildlife #animals #africa #nature

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Meet this lovely joey saying hi to us! Our team is currently travelling around Australia documenting every animal we come across, especially the endemics! #australia #kangaroo #animals #wildlife

A young light-brown kangaroo or wallaby standing on green grass, looking toward the camera with large ears and soft fur.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Imagine flying non-stop across the Pacific Ocean for 11 days straight with zero sleep or food stops. The Bar-tailed Godwit completes the longest continuous migration of any bird, flying over 7,000 miles without touching down once! #birds #alaska #australia #birb

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I see these guys all the time in Australia, the bold blue face is hard to miss. They actually start life with a bright yellow face that changes as they grow up! But the blue-faced honeyeater is just one of many. #australia #sydney #honeyeater #animals

A blue-faced honeyeater perched on a red wire, showing olive-green back, white underparts, black head and bright blue skin around the eye.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seen a bright yellow butterfly and wondered which one it was? You’re not alone, lots of us just think “yellow butterfly” and move on. #yellow #butterfly #insects #garden

A yellow and black butterfly (likely a swallowtail or sulphur type) feeding on a pink flower cluster.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Look at this lovely puppy. Looks a bit like a dog… a bit like a coyote… but it’s neither. Dingoes sit in their own interesting middle ground. #dingo #australia #animals #dog #wolf

A young dingo running toward the camera on green grass.

An adult dingo standing in a forested area, looking toward the camera with upright ears and ginger coat.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What do a wasp and a bat(or flying fox) have in common? They’re both pollinators, and they’re far from alone.

A flying fox (nectar-feeding bat) hanging upside down against a blue sky.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That bright green coil is a green tree python. And it is beautiful to see it! One of the most striking snakes you’ll ever see, and just one of many python species. #python #snakes #reptiles

A bright green tree python coiled tightly, head facing the camera with yellow markings, against a dark background.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This magical moment happened in Baja California. The mom pushed her calf toward us! But there is more... this whale holds one of the longest migrations of any mammal. Gray whales travel roughly 16,000–22,000 km round-trip every year. #whale #ocean #sealife #scuba #photography

A gray whale lifting its head and upper body out of blue ocean water near the coast.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you live in Australia - or ever visited - you probably know this bird as the noisy neighbour that digs up your garden. But Australian brush-turkeys are way more impressive than most people realise. #turkey #australia #sydney #portrait #birds

Close-up of an Australian brush-turkey with bright red head, yellow neck wattle and black body, looking to the side against green foliage.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One’s a crocodile. One’s a lizard. Both are reptiles… but reptiles are a much bigger group than most people realise. #reptiles #wildlife #crocodile #skink

Close-up of a crocodile’s snout emerging from green water, looking straight at the camera.

A spiky brown lizard with bright orange-red eye rings perched on mossy ground.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That spectacular breach is a humpback whale. You can spot them in both coasts in Australia! These giants make some of the longest migrations of any mammal on the planet. #humpbackwhale #migration #whales #ocean #wildlife

A humpback whale leaping almost fully out of the ocean, water cascading off its body against a clear blue sky.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Who doesn't love this butterfly? Millions of these orange butterflies make one of the most famous migrations on Earth. But not every orange-and-black butterfly you see is a monarch. #butterfly #monarch #insets #mexico #canada

A tree densely covered in hundreds of monarch butterflies.

Close-up of a monarch butterfly resting on a flower, wings open showing orange, black and white pattern.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A nankeen kestrel mid-hunt. Australia has several falcon species... some common, some much rarer. #falcon #australia #birds #eagle

A nankeen kestrel perched on a branch holding a large insect in its beak, wings partially spread

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You may know the American Robin. But have you seen this one? That bright pink chest belongs to a pink robin. Australia’s robins come in a surprising range of colours. #birds #australia #animals #robin

A pink robin perched on a branch, dark grey head and back with vivid pink breast and belly.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This handsome pigeon is known as the topknot pigeon! That funky crest is hard to miss. Australia has far more interesting pigeons than the usual city ones. #pigeon #australia #dove #birds

Close-up of a topknot pigeon showing grey plumage, red bill, red eye and distinctive reddish crest.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

More than 1.5 million wildebeest on the move... This is the largest land-mammal migration on Earth. #wildebeest #migration #africa #wildlife

A large herd of wildebeest crossing a muddy river, dust rising, many animals in the water and on the banks.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Meet the brown pelican! They can dive from 20 metres up, hit the water like a missile, and still surface with a pouch full of fish, the only pelican that hunts this way.! #bird #pelican #animals #ocean #wild

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yes.. that's a cape cobra on top of a bush. A king cobra can raise a third of its body off the ground and deliver enough neurotoxin in one bite to kill an elephant… yet most of the time it would rather just leave. #snakes #reptiles #animals #wildlife #photography

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Clownfish aren't born male or female. They're born undifferentiated, then the largest in a group becomes female and the second largest becomes male. If the female dies, the male becomes female. That's just one fish. There are over 34,000 species. And the diversity is wild. #fish #ocean #nature

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

These two animals look nothing alike… until you look closer at those wings. One is a bat. One is a bird. Both evolved powered flight completely independently... classic convergent evolution at work. #evolution #wildlife #nature #bats #birds

a bat flying with extended wings inside a cave

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This wallaby isn’t a different species. It’s pure white because of a single recessive gene that switches off melanin production, rare, beautiful, and usually a serious disadvantage in the wild. #albinism #wildlife #wallaby #nature

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is called a flying lemur but its not a lemur! It’s a colugo, a mammal that can glide 150 metres on the largest skin membrane of any living animal, stretching from neck to fingertips to toes to tail tip. #colugo #wildlife #nature #gliding #photography

close up of a baby colugo hugged by its mother

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That tongue is a powerful tool! Meet the bearded dragon. They can flatten its body, puff its “beard,” and stand its ground against threats many times its size, all while living across some of Australia’s harshest landscapes. #beardeddragon #lizards #wildlife #australia

a bearded dragon sticking its tongue out

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This primate is found nowhere else on Earth. Every wild lemur lives only on Madagascar (and a couple of nearby islands). Over 100 species evolved there after their ancestors rafted across the ocean tens of millions of years ago. #lemurs #madagascar #primates #wildlife

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Firts time I walked in Sydney I heard a monkey, well it turned out that, it was this bird. But that “laugh” isn’t laughter at all. It’s a territorial chorus, a coordinated family call that announces “this land is taken” at dawn and dusk #kookaburra #birds #australia #wildlife

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Despite the name, this swan is not silent at all. We just saw them among canals in Brugge. Mute swans communicate with hisses, grunts and snorts, and when they fly, their wings produce a distinctive whistling sound that can be heard from a long way off. #muteswan #birds #wildlife #nature

A pure white mute swan floating on calm water at golden hour, long neck curved in a classic S-shape, orange bill with black knob, perfect reflection in the water below.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

He looks very cute, but this little predator can take on a cobra! Mongooses are famous for their speed, thick skin and lightning reflexes, traits that let some species fight and kill venomous snakes that would end most other mammals. #mongoose #wildlife #nature #predators

A brown mongoose standing alert on sandy ground, facing the camera with large dark eyes, pointed snout and slightly raised head, soft focus background.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is on of the most beautiful cormorants out there: the australian pied cormorant! In Australia is known as the pied shag, and its whole body is engineered "flaw" for deep diving and its highly specialized underwater senses! #cormorant #birds #wildlife #nature

A black-and-white cormorant (likely little pied or similar) perched on a branch with wings fully spread to dry, orange bill, white underparts and dark upperparts against a soft grey-green background.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We all know this fish as Dory from Finding Nemo. In real life the regal blue tang (Paracanthurus hepatus) carries a sharp, venomous spine at the base of its tail, the reason it’s also called a surgeonfish. #bluetang #surgeonfish #wildlife #ocean

A vibrant blue tang (regal blue tang) swimming in clear water, body a bright royal blue with bold black markings and a yellow tail, coral and rocks in the background.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is not a bee or a wasp! It’s a hover fly... one of nature’s best mimics and the second-most important group of pollinators after bees. Harmless, hovering, and incredibly useful. #hoverfly #insects #pollinators #wildlife

A hover fly in mid-air against a soft green background, orange and black patterned body, large reddish compound eyes, and a pink flower stamen nearby.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is not a movie monster. Most of the nearly 1,000 tarantula species are far more interested in insects than in people, and their venom is usually milder than a bee sting. #tarantula #spiders #wildlife #nature

A bright turquoise-blue tarantula resting on textured tree bark, legs and body covered in dense fine hairs, facing slightly toward the camera.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That tiny face peering from a hollow is actually three different animals. What we used to call “the sugar glider” was recently split into three distinct species, and most of the ones kept as pets are actually Krefft’s gliders. #sugarglider #marsupials #wildlife #australia

A small grey-brown sugar glider (or Krefft’s glider) peeking out of a tree hollow, large dark eyes, pink nose and one front paw visible, soft light on its face.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This fish was supposed to be extinct! Until rediscovered accidentally... For 66 million years coelacanths existed only as fossils, until a living one was hauled up off South Africa in 1938. It took 15 years to find a second one! #coelacanth #fish #wildlife #ocean #sealife

A large dark coelacanth swimming above a rocky underwater slope, body covered in pale spots, lobed fins clearly visible in blue water.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This little bird does almost everything in mid-air! The barn swallow skims a pond at full speed, scooping water without landing, and catches every meal on the wing. Weighing about the same as eight coins, some migrate up to 10,000 km! #birds #nature #animals #wild

close up of a swallow bird perched on a tree branch

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This newborn rabbit is blind, naked and utterly helpless, and that's exactly the plan. Baby rabbits (kits) are born deep in an underground burrow, hidden and defenceless, while mum visits just once or twice a day so predators can't track her scent back to them. #cute #rabbit #nature #animals

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You've seen this bird your whole life, and it may be the most widespread wild bird on the planet. The house sparrow followed humanity out of Eurasia and now lives on nearly every continent, thriving wherever we build. #birds #nature #sparrow #animals

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Those big shiny eyes aren't just cute, this spider sees the world in sharper colour than your pet cat. The jumping spider is a hunter, not a trapper. It spins no web to catch food; leaping up to 40 times its body length on a silk safety line. #spider #insect #nature #wild

macro close up of a jumping spider showing its four eyes

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When you picture a bee, you picture this one, the honeybee. They're among the most social animals on Earth, living in colonies tens of thousands strong. And they talk by dancing: a returning forager "waggles" to tell the hive which way, and how far, to fly for flowers. #bees #insects #animals

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this beautiful blue bird is know as the Azure Kingfisher. Australia's kingfishers are built for the ambush, perching dead-still above the water, then plunging to snatch fish and yabbies. #birds #kingfisher #animals #australia

an azure kingfisher in the wild perched ona. tree branch

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is the only mammal on Earth that truly flies. Not gliding like a "flying" squirrel... real, flapping, powered flight. And a bat's wings are literally its hands: elongated finger bones with skin stretched between them. #bats #animals #wildlife #nature

a flying fox fruit bat hanging upside down

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Have you ever seen a "fat bee"? Well, they are bumblebees A bumblebee can't take off until its flight muscles hit about 30°C, so it shivers to warm them up, generating its own heat like a tiny engine. That's how it's out flying on cold mornings! #bee #insects #nature #animals

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Did you know a lion's roar carries 8 kilometres? and it's the only big cat that roars as a family. They live in prides, raise cubs together, and hunt as a coordinated team, where the lionesses do most of the work! #lions #africa #nature #wildlife

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Watch a flycatcher hunt and you'll see the neatest trick in birding: it sits, spots a bug, darts out to grab it mid-air, then loops straight back to the same perch. This ribbon-tailed paradise flycatcher just does it with more drama, streamers trailing behind. #birds #nature #photography #animals

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A newborn koala is the size of a jellybean, blind, hairless, and completely on its own. Marsupials are born barely developed, then make an astonishing solo climb through their mother's fur to reach the pouch, guided only by smell and touch. #australia #koala #animals #nature

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Don't let the size fool you... The Rufous Hummingbird is one of the feistiest birds alive, fiercely guarding its flowers and chasing off anything that comes close, all while making one of the longest migrations of any bird for its size. #birds #hummingbird

A rufous hummingbird with glowing orange plumage perched on a thin twig against a green background.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Meet the softest animal on Earth, a rodent with fur so dense a flea would suffocate trying to live in it. The chinchilla grows up to 80 hairs from a single follicle. You grow one. That's the thickest coat of any land mammal, packed tight to survive the freezing Andes #rodents #mouse #nature #animals

A grey chinchilla with large ears and dense soft fur perched on a branch among red and yellow berries.

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Did you know rabbits actually speak a full body language? When a rabbit is insanely happy, it does a "binky", a wild, twisting leap into the air with a mid-flight head flick. #rabbits #cute #animals #nature

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