Platypus @BigCityBirds Dr John Martin … She’s come over from the north side and a favorite for many years but she always brings her crew and the biggest one knocks her off the perch. She’s not “dominant” but one of the gentle girl cockatoos. She’s very sweet.

@BigCityBirds Dr John Martin ANU Fenner School Ecology&EvolutionANU ABC Sydney Science at ANU Australian Citizen Science Association Illawarra Mercury The Sydney Morning Herald Lucy Aplin He was TRYING, but I’m not sure he actually succeeded in opening it, I think possibly more of an opportunist seeing it wasn’t fully closed (Hazelbrook, NSW)

Grey-headed flying-foxes can fly over 300km in a night! They are important pollinators - think of them as a giant bee 🐝 This species is listed as vulnerable to extinction due to population decline and loss of habitat - our latest research The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/grey-headed-fl…

Breeding migratory shorebirds have departed, leaving only overwintering birds. Now seeing travelling resident waterbirds stopping in at Deeban (Port Hacking) for a rest before continuing to wherever they are headed for winter. Plus our regular winter visitors double-banded plover

Cool! Report your sightings in using the Big City Birds app 👍👍👍

Precision foraging 😂 Help us map where Bin-Opening “is” and “is not” occurring - our annual survey takes 2-min. Thanks! clevercockies.com/annual-bin-ope… Please report behaviours and Wingtag sightings using the Big City Birds app 😉 spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/i…

Hugh Possingham @BigCityBirds Indeed, you’ve contributed plenty and continue to. Our paper, part of Matthew Hall’s PhD, shows that eBird & iNaturalist don’t capture bird behaviour, hence the value of @BigCityBirds 😉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Fake snakes, bricks, sneakers: How Sydneysiders are fighting the cockatoo bin war smh.com.au/national/nsw/f…

Our friend, white ibis, hanging around with a bush stone-curlew. A familiar sight across Queensland - both have adapted to urban areas. Report your sightings using our @BigCityBirds app Keep an eye out for wing-tagged ibis across QLD: tagging in Brissy spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/i…

Platypus (139) @BigCityBirds comes and visits from the North Shore. One of our favorites and a longtime visitor. She’s very sweet and gentle. And a bit hungry when it gets cold. She gets a few almonds and is always followed by a friend who tries to push her out of the way.

Unlike other gardeners..our Bush Turkeys 🦃 love working in the rain…clear that troublesome garden this weekend with our Turkeys 🦃 that are available by the hour …use #rainydays at the checkout for a special Mother’s Day 💐 discount

True larrikins - the cockies are exploring the Vivid Sydney lights Botanic Gardens of Sydney 😂 Always interesting to see the cockies having fun! We heard several chicks begging & being fed - report your sightings to our research: Big City Birds app spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/i… City of Sydney

The distinctive profile of a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo with a distant rainbow. (tricky exposure choice but the rainbow won :) #birds #WildOz

To bee or not to bee. 🐝 There are un-bee-lievable benefits to supporting Australia’s native bees, like the beautiful Blue-banded Bee (Amegilla chlorocyanea) seen here. Find out how you can support native bees like these: csiro.au/en/news/All/Ar… 📹 | freya_beelady on Instagram

Is it just us or are these getting easier? 🤔 📷 | Goongerah Wombat Orphanage #WombatWednesday

Want to learn more about the #Australian white #ibis? Ask your questions in the comments for a chance to have them answered by Dr John Martin in the next episode of Ask An Expert! Head to the link to get notified when we go live on Monday 29 July: ausgeo.co/auswhiteibis

went to an incredibly interesting data-driven talk about sulphur crested cockatoos by Lucy Aplin - the clever cockies project. syd & canberra ppl can help them by completing surveys on birds clevercockies.com/get-involved well worth it. amazing birds - see @BigCityBirds

Do you feed cockies? “Our data suggest that SCC do not use all parts of their home range equally….This implies a role for sophisticated time and place learning, with birds matching activity to human patterns.” paper: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Watch the body/eye language between these two. Platypus (139 @BigCityBirds ) on right and Sofie (partner of Watermelon) on left. Polite assertion of dominance… watch til end. They appear to agree they are equal? Apologies for ugly background of neighboring vile building

Are you seeing our study birds around Sydney & Canberra? Report using the @BigCityBirds app 🎨 🏷️ - we’re learning about flock social hierarchies and interaction between flocks. spotteron.com/bigcitybirds/i… #bigcitybirds #sulphurcrestedcockatoo #cockatoo #wingtags