Cat Young
@catmyoung.bsky.social
She/her. Biologist and birdo living in lutrawita/Tasmania.
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My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
June 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king
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#WhereWhereWedgie 🦅 surveys near Hamilton today -
- 6 (!!) x wedge-tailed eagles
- 1 x white-bellied sea-eagle
- 1 x brown falcon
- 200 cockatoos!!
An excellent day for science!
@catmyoung.bsky.social @clawkins.bsky.social
#citizenscience 🌿🪶🧪 #Tasmania #conservationscience
- 6 (!!) x wedge-tailed eagles
- 1 x white-bellied sea-eagle
- 1 x brown falcon
- 200 cockatoos!!
An excellent day for science!
@catmyoung.bsky.social @clawkins.bsky.social
#citizenscience 🌿🪶🧪 #Tasmania #conservationscience
May 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
#WhereWhereWedgie 🦅 surveys near Hamilton today -
- 6 (!!) x wedge-tailed eagles
- 1 x white-bellied sea-eagle
- 1 x brown falcon
- 200 cockatoos!!
An excellent day for science!
@catmyoung.bsky.social @clawkins.bsky.social
#citizenscience 🌿🪶🧪 #Tasmania #conservationscience
- 6 (!!) x wedge-tailed eagles
- 1 x white-bellied sea-eagle
- 1 x brown falcon
- 200 cockatoos!!
An excellent day for science!
@catmyoung.bsky.social @clawkins.bsky.social
#citizenscience 🌿🪶🧪 #Tasmania #conservationscience
Thought we had planned this perfectly - morning survey from the balcony at this gorgeous farm stay but unfortunately 99% of the square is on the other side of that hill!
Oh well 2 wedgies on the way in is a great sign for tomorrow!
#wherewherewedgie #citizenscience
Oh well 2 wedgies on the way in is a great sign for tomorrow!
#wherewherewedgie #citizenscience
May 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Thought we had planned this perfectly - morning survey from the balcony at this gorgeous farm stay but unfortunately 99% of the square is on the other side of that hill!
Oh well 2 wedgies on the way in is a great sign for tomorrow!
#wherewherewedgie #citizenscience
Oh well 2 wedgies on the way in is a great sign for tomorrow!
#wherewherewedgie #citizenscience
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Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness
😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
May 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness
😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
Look it's me doing eagle surveys!
Book your square for next weekends surveys before Wednesday!
It's a great day out in Tasmania and helps inform eagle conservation.
naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...
Book your square for next weekends surveys before Wednesday!
It's a great day out in Tasmania and helps inform eagle conservation.
naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...
Bookings for #WhereWhereWedgie 2025 surveys are now open. If you're in #Tasmania for any or all of 9-11 & 23-25 May, consider booking a survey square today.
There's a good chance you'll spot a bird of prey; in any case, you'll definitely have a memorable, rewarding day...
📷 @drdevildave.bsky.social
There's a good chance you'll spot a bird of prey; in any case, you'll definitely have a memorable, rewarding day...
📷 @drdevildave.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Look it's me doing eagle surveys!
Book your square for next weekends surveys before Wednesday!
It's a great day out in Tasmania and helps inform eagle conservation.
naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...
Book your square for next weekends surveys before Wednesday!
It's a great day out in Tasmania and helps inform eagle conservation.
naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...
Calling all Tasmanians! Where Where Wedgie surveys are open for booking! Surveys to be conducted May 23-25th.
More info naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...
Book today!
More info naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...
Book today!
Tasmania's raptors face heaps of threats; without monitoring we can't know how they're holding up. We're now starting to achieve this for the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, & with more surveys we can detect any population changes for more species...
naturetrackers.au/news/six-yea...
naturetrackers.au/news/six-yea...
Six years in: Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle numbers looking stable | Latest news | NatureTrackers
With analysis of the 2023 and 2024 results we’re now getting solid information and context on the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle’s conservation status…
naturetrackers.au
May 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Calling all Tasmanians! Where Where Wedgie surveys are open for booking! Surveys to be conducted May 23-25th.
More info naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...
Book today!
More info naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...
Book today!
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So, Murray Watt is the new Environment Minister in the re-elected @albomp.bsky.social government.
Murray, please implement environmental law reform and increase investment in environmental protection and recovery, as large numbers of experts have advised.
theconversation.com/australians-...
Murray, please implement environmental law reform and increase investment in environmental protection and recovery, as large numbers of experts have advised.
theconversation.com/australians-...
Australians want nature protected. These 3 environmental problems should be top of the next government’s to-do list
Three experts consider what’s required to protect and conserve Australia’s natural wonders, from fighting invaders to stopping habitat loss and saving species.
theconversation.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
So, Murray Watt is the new Environment Minister in the re-elected @albomp.bsky.social government.
Murray, please implement environmental law reform and increase investment in environmental protection and recovery, as large numbers of experts have advised.
theconversation.com/australians-...
Murray, please implement environmental law reform and increase investment in environmental protection and recovery, as large numbers of experts have advised.
theconversation.com/australians-...
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As a mammalogist I'm fascinated by 💩 because it can help us to answer important questions, like who eats more livestock, dingoes or foxes, and how many threatened or near-threatened species are eaten by cats and foxes?
New paper, by PhD student Rachel Mason theconversation.com/farmers-fear...
New paper, by PhD student Rachel Mason theconversation.com/farmers-fear...
Farmers fear dingoes are eating their livestock – but predator poo tells an unexpected story
Despite public perceptions, sheep and cattle are not a favoured prey for some dingoes or foxes. So is culling them to protect livestock justified?
theconversation.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
As a mammalogist I'm fascinated by 💩 because it can help us to answer important questions, like who eats more livestock, dingoes or foxes, and how many threatened or near-threatened species are eaten by cats and foxes?
New paper, by PhD student Rachel Mason theconversation.com/farmers-fear...
New paper, by PhD student Rachel Mason theconversation.com/farmers-fear...
When I travel snails make me think of @snailseyeview.bsky.social 🐌🐌🐌
(Snail from Samoa)
(Snail from Samoa)
May 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
When I travel snails make me think of @snailseyeview.bsky.social 🐌🐌🐌
(Snail from Samoa)
(Snail from Samoa)
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May 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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One bird. 399 pieces of plastic. 55 g.
This is not our record.
This is not our record.
May 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
One bird. 399 pieces of plastic. 55 g.
This is not our record.
This is not our record.
Chat GPT tells me -
If an echidna were casting a vote in the 2025 Australian election—motivated by instincts to protect its habitat, ensure clean air and water, and avoid human-caused extinction—it would most likely lean toward the Greens.
Make good choices today Australia! #auspol
If an echidna were casting a vote in the 2025 Australian election—motivated by instincts to protect its habitat, ensure clean air and water, and avoid human-caused extinction—it would most likely lean toward the Greens.
Make good choices today Australia! #auspol
Has anyone asked the echidnas their views on this election? 🎤
May 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Chat GPT tells me -
If an echidna were casting a vote in the 2025 Australian election—motivated by instincts to protect its habitat, ensure clean air and water, and avoid human-caused extinction—it would most likely lean toward the Greens.
Make good choices today Australia! #auspol
If an echidna were casting a vote in the 2025 Australian election—motivated by instincts to protect its habitat, ensure clean air and water, and avoid human-caused extinction—it would most likely lean toward the Greens.
Make good choices today Australia! #auspol
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Has anyone asked the echidnas their views on this election? 🎤
May 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Has anyone asked the echidnas their views on this election? 🎤
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There’s antechinus, & there’s ANTECHINUS!!
Antechinus are small (usually…) relatives of the Tasmanian devil. This chonk of a male was caught at Inala Jurassic Garden, for quick samples to help out with vaccine research for Devil Facial Tumour @wildimmunity.bsky.social
Pic- @catmyoung.bsky.social
Antechinus are small (usually…) relatives of the Tasmanian devil. This chonk of a male was caught at Inala Jurassic Garden, for quick samples to help out with vaccine research for Devil Facial Tumour @wildimmunity.bsky.social
Pic- @catmyoung.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
There’s antechinus, & there’s ANTECHINUS!!
Antechinus are small (usually…) relatives of the Tasmanian devil. This chonk of a male was caught at Inala Jurassic Garden, for quick samples to help out with vaccine research for Devil Facial Tumour @wildimmunity.bsky.social
Pic- @catmyoung.bsky.social
Antechinus are small (usually…) relatives of the Tasmanian devil. This chonk of a male was caught at Inala Jurassic Garden, for quick samples to help out with vaccine research for Devil Facial Tumour @wildimmunity.bsky.social
Pic- @catmyoung.bsky.social
Paper daisy season! 🌟
January 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Paper daisy season! 🌟
Jewel beetles, paper daisies and highland lakes - magical outing with the Tasmanian Field Naturalists
January 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Jewel beetles, paper daisies and highland lakes - magical outing with the Tasmanian Field Naturalists
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Turns out that flying London > Darwin + bus/ferry > Hobart, instead of flying all the way to Hobart, saves about 330 kg CO2 (including radiative forcing: the extra impact of emissions high in the atmosphere).
Is 330 kg a lot? It’s 11% of the trip; also 9% of Sweden’s 2022 per capita emissions 😳
Is 330 kg a lot? It’s 11% of the trip; also 9% of Sweden’s 2022 per capita emissions 😳
January 13, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Turns out that flying London > Darwin + bus/ferry > Hobart, instead of flying all the way to Hobart, saves about 330 kg CO2 (including radiative forcing: the extra impact of emissions high in the atmosphere).
Is 330 kg a lot? It’s 11% of the trip; also 9% of Sweden’s 2022 per capita emissions 😳
Is 330 kg a lot? It’s 11% of the trip; also 9% of Sweden’s 2022 per capita emissions 😳
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Bloody cracking talk from @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social!
Dogs ARE better than humans, hard agree, Nic! #ESAus2024
Dogs ARE better than humans, hard agree, Nic! #ESAus2024
December 10, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Bloody cracking talk from @tasbiophiliac.bsky.social!
Dogs ARE better than humans, hard agree, Nic! #ESAus2024
Dogs ARE better than humans, hard agree, Nic! #ESAus2024
Tasmania - when the government says it cannot afford to fix the housing crisis or protect our environment, just remind them they are paying $47,534 a week to park a ship in Edinburgh because the port here won't be built till 2027.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Scottish media mark arrival of Spirit of Tasmania ferry 'too big' for Australia as cost revealed
It'll cost at least $47,534 a week, plus costs, for the Spirit of Tasmania IV to berth in Scotland under a 30-day deal struck by the Tasmanian government.
www.abc.net.au
December 4, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Tasmania - when the government says it cannot afford to fix the housing crisis or protect our environment, just remind them they are paying $47,534 a week to park a ship in Edinburgh because the port here won't be built till 2027.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos feeding by the road, Bruny Island
December 1, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos feeding by the road, Bruny Island
Watching the tide come in, Bruny Island #tranquility
November 30, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Watching the tide come in, Bruny Island #tranquility
Who's creeping on who?
Me with the thermal camera or this sneaky brushtail possum on the deck.
Me with the thermal camera or this sneaky brushtail possum on the deck.
November 29, 2024 at 1:42 AM
Who's creeping on who?
Me with the thermal camera or this sneaky brushtail possum on the deck.
Me with the thermal camera or this sneaky brushtail possum on the deck.
Classically a winter destination Ben Lomond National Park is well worth a visit in the summer!
November 17, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Classically a winter destination Ben Lomond National Park is well worth a visit in the summer!
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The local swifties are very much enjoying the flowering black gums in the Hobart suburbs right now!
November 16, 2024 at 8:13 AM
The local swifties are very much enjoying the flowering black gums in the Hobart suburbs right now!
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🎶 It’s me, hi! 🎶
🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶
Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…
🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶
Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…
November 15, 2024 at 6:43 AM
🎶 It’s me, hi! 🎶
🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶
Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…
🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶
Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…