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Biodiversity awareness through citizen science
October 24th-27th 2025 on iNaturalist
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For those in Australia the "Vic Fazio III Moth Marathon" is back on again for another year, starting on Friday, 16th January, 2026. Over a 10 day period (January 16, 2026 - January 25, 2026)
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2026 Moth Marathon in Memory of Victor Fazio III
This is the fourth year of running the moth project in memory of Victor Fazio III. Starting on Friday, 16th January, 2026 we will start exploring this biodiverse group with a ten day marathon. We welc...
www.inaturalist.org
January 5, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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Formally categorised as extinct on the IUCN Red List in 2025
🔴 Slender-billed curlew
🟡 Christmas Island shrew
🟠 3 Australian mammals
🟤 a species of ebony tree and Hawaiian lobelioid
⚫ a cone snail
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the...
news.mongabay.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Greater Sand-Plover 'Anarhynchus leschenaultii ' from back in January one of my first #BirdsSeenIn2025 my only sighting of this species!
Rapid Creek #Darwin #Australia
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#aves #wildoz #birdsofoz #inaturalist
December 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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green-jewel.bsky.social
BIODIVERSIDAD DEL SUR DEL ECUADOR

🔎: Helecho Perejil / Asplenium sp.
🏞️: Cajanuma - Parque Nacional Podocarpus
📷: Ángel Mario Hualpa Erazo - Green Jewel & Chelonia

#BiodiversidadDelSurDelEcuador #GreenJewel #Chelonia #BiodiversidadEc #iNaturalistEc #Flora #CienciaCiudadana #SomosInaturalistEc
December 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Paperbark Flycatcher 'Myiagra nana', found across the north of Australia

This one was seen in Holmes Jungle near Darwin, and takes me close to 100 #BirdsSeenIn2025

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December 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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green-jewel.bsky.social
PARQUE NACIONAL YACURI

16 años protegiendo y conservando la biodiversidad y los recursos naturales en el sur del Ecuador.

Nuestro saludo a todo el personal de guardaparques que hacen que esta área sea un refugio de biodiversidad y proveedor de servicios ambientales.
December 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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We’re in the second week of our ID-a-thon, and we’d love your help sorting reptiles into four broad categories: snakes, lizards, turtles & tortoises, and crocodilians. Learn more: tr.ee/identifyweek2 🐍🐊🐢
Collage titled "Help Us Identify Reptiles" with 20 photos showing snakes, lizards, turtles, and crocodilians on a black background. Infographic explaining the four main reptile lineages with cartoon illustrations of a snake, lizard, tortoise, and crocodile. Closing slide with green snake icon and call to action: "You can contribute identifications from any computer, anywhere in the world!" with link tr.ee/identifyweek2.
December 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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BIODIVERSIDAD DEL SUR DEL ECUADOR

🔎: Escarabajo Cavador / Phanaeus meleagris
🏞️: Zumba - Zamora Chinchipe
📷: Daniel Hualpa Vega - Green Jewel & GIBS Ad Austra

#BiodiversidadDelSurDelEcuador #GreenJewel #Chelonia #BiodiversidadEc #iNaturalistEc #Escarabajos #CienciaCiudadana #SomosInaturalistEc
December 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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This striking bat, the Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus), is found only in Australia. They're also critical pollinators & seed dispersers for over 100 native tree & plant species!

📷 lawrencehylton on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A dark brown bat glides over water. A dark brown bat glides over water, and splashes where it's just grazed the water fly into the air.
December 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Crypsiphona ocultaria - Red-lined Looper

One of the most common moths we see, these moths can be found around in parts of Australia. The reason for the moth’s common name becomes apparent when you see the underside of their wings

#teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidopteta #inaturalist #inverts
Picture of the top of a moth with grey wings marked with dark irregular lines. Picture of a moth showing the underside of its wings which are pale grey with black submarginal bands, bordered on the inside with red. The forewings each have a large black spot and an orange patch
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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"True Bugs by Colour" is now up and running after a year of preparation. We have around 250 named species of Hemiptera and they are now sorted into a rainbow of shades. We hope it helps you track down the name of one of your locals!
tasmanianinsectfieldguide.com/hexapoda/ins...
True Bugs by Colour
True bugs (Hemiptera) come in a huge diversity of body forms; from flat looking blobs to metallic beetle like insects.  They all have sucking mouthparts.  Click on the colours that are closest to the ...
tasmanianinsectfieldguide.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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The slightly pensive look of Castiarina flavopicta, a Tasmanian Jewel Beetle. #invertefest
A shiny metallic green jewel beetle, on a face on but angled photo. The eyes are black and the wings are covered with orange waves. A bit like an upside down ? followed by a ˜on each elytra. The beetle is on white Ozothamnus flowers.
December 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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green-jewel.bsky.social
BIODIVERSIDAD DEL SUR DEL ECUADOR

🔎: Mariposa de Cristal / Pagyris cymothoe ssp. sylvella
🏞️: Quinara - Vilcabamba
📷: Daniel Hualpa Vega - Green Jewel & GIBS

#BiodiversidadDelSurDelEcuador #GreenJewel #Chelonia #BiodiversidadEc #iNaturalistEc #Mariposas #CienciaCiudadana #SomosInaturalistEc
December 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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A male and female Hooded Parrot 'Psephotellus dissimilis' seen yesterday in Pine Creek. This is a species found in Australia's northern savannah and open woodland and is one of two extant species in its genus that nest in termite mounds
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #wildoz
December 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Orchid enthusiasts call for greater protection for native species facing habitat threats

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Native orchids captivate photographers in search of undiscovered bush treasure
Two centuries after orchids were first documented in South Australia, photographers are still discovering new plants.
www.abc.net.au
December 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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BIODIVERSIDAD DEL SUR DEL ECUADOR

🔎: Rana de casco de Festa / Osteocephalus festae
🏞️: Zumba - Chinchipe
📷: Daniel Hualpa Vega - Green Jewel & GIBS Ad Austra

#BiodiversidadDelSurDelEcuador #GreenJewel #Chelonia #BiodiversidadEc #GIBS #Ranas #CienciaCiudadana #Biodiversidad #SomosInaturalistEc
December 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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The 'Faraway Tree' at Moot Yang Gunya Swamp in Mundulla (south-west of Bordertown) in South Australia.

I measured this massive river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) last week at 8.77 metres in trunk girth at chest height, 41 m tall, and 31 metres in average canopy spread.
December 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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An analysis of 700,000+ climate change papers found that the five most climate-vulnerable countries produced 0.04% of them. US, China, Uk, Germany, Australia, meanwhile, account for 52%.
Bridging the climate research divide: A global imperative for equitable resilience
Nations most vulnerable to climate contribute minimally to climate research, creating stark global disparities. Such imbalances undermine resilience, perpetuate injustice, and threaten effective adapt...
www.science.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Eurasian Whimbrel 'Numenius phaeopus' seen at the beginning of the year at Rapid Creek NT, Australia.
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#BirdsSeenIn2025
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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green-jewel.bsky.social
BIODIVERSIDAD DEL SUR DEL ECUADOR

🔎: Araña Jamaca / Linothele gaujoni
🏞️: Loja y sus alrededores
📷: Daniel Hualpa Vega - Green Jewel & GIBS Ad Austra

#BiodiversidadDelSurDelEcuador #GreenJewel #Chelonia #BiodiversidadEc #GIBS #AdAustra #Arañas #CienciaCiudadana #Biodiversidad #SomosInaturalistEc
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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inaturalist.bsky.social
Bird vs. crab: a tale as old as time.

📷 william-harland on iNaturalist
📍 New Zealand
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A small crab clings onto the outside of a large bird's bottom beak. The bird bends over water while the crab appears to be mid-air near the tip of its beak. The crab hangs precariously off the bird's long beak. The bird's beak is open with the crab splayed in between.
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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When David Alejandro Sánchez Gómez photographed this orchid in Colombia, he didn't know how special it would turn out to be. 🧵⤵️
A yellow orchid with four petals and a dark maroon interior. White text reads "this orchid is a new species."
December 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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#SomosInaturalist #Switzerland
inaturalist.bsky.social iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · Nov 26
Meet the Feather Stalkball (Onygena corvina): a tiny cluster of fungi that grows on feathers and bones (possibly an owl pellet in this case, according to the observer).

📷 phyllisma on iNaturalist
📍 Switzerland
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A cluster of fungi with white stems and small, round brown caps grows off of clumped dirt, which could possibly be part of an owl pellet. A hand holds a cluster of fungi with white stems and small, round brown caps grows off of clumped dirt, which could possibly be part of an owl pellet.
December 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The #Weaver ladies.
Mrs Redheaded(l) and Mrs Masked(r).
#photography #nature #outdoors #garden #goedemorgen #birdwatching #Francistown #Botswana #BirdsSeenIn2025
Two seedeating birds of the same family tree. The left is white bodied with grey wings and yellow head and neck and orange bill. The right is a darker yellow with grey wings, a grey bill, and dark lines around the eyes.
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Here is another entry for #BirdsSeenIn2025 in Namibia. This is a white-fronted bee eater, seen on the bank of the Chobe River. #birds #Namibia
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM