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Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae)Observer
sandra_curranDescription
There were several eruptions of loud raucous bird calls in the backyard during the night and into daylight times until I saw these birds fly away about 10.00am. Photos are of these two very large birds in backyard jacaranda and mulberry tree.
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Aitanga Pepeke (Insects) (Class Insecta)Observer
ruth-palssonDescription
Leaf mines in Pomaderris queenslandica
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Southern Hooked Rustyhood (Pterostylis hamata)Observer
timothy_mervDescription
I was told this is the undescribed "Pterostylis aff. hamata", soon to be named P. cranei.
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Prowling Spiders (Family Miturgidae)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
Found in the house but we may have brought it in with some kangaroo grass we collected from a roadside on the edge of town yesterday.
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Feral Pigeon (Columba livia var. domestica)Observer
elysia_hDescription
The remaining pigeons from Burns building.
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Southern Banjo Frog (Limnodynastes dumerilii ssp. insularis)Observer
frankashwood
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Tūī (Mainland Tūī) (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae ssp. novaeseelandiae)Observer
jon_sullivanDescription
Look what I found today in Victoria Park!
(Unbanded)
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Spotted Python (Antaresia maculosa)Observer
shanti_singhDescription
Found 18km NE of Gunnedah. Shared with permission from the photographer, Tammy Carter.
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Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)Observer
geotrum8670Description
has been a while since I've had one at home - used to see quite a few. looked like a young male
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Cephalotes setuliferObserver
jon_sullivanDescription
A page from my field notebook from 28 June 1994, from Sector Santa Rosa of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. This is what I used to do before digital photography. This shows the tree Cordia alliodora, identified for me at the time by Roberto Espinosa (RE). Cordia stems are swollen and contain ants, of several species but mostly a small ant with a flattened head, that uses its head to block the entrance to the cavity where they nest. I've since learned that this is the obligate Cordia specialist ant, Zacryptocerus setulifer (Emery), now known as Cephalotes setulifer. (According to John Longino "The most ubiquitous inhabitant of C. alliodora is Zacryptocerus setulifer (Emery)...Nearly every C. alliodora population I have examined in Costa Rica has had Z. setulifer in some of the nodes.")
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Ornate Wobbegong (Orectolobus ornatus)Observer
johnturnbullDescription
And the final of the three; photo taken at Fly Point. Dwarf ornates are smaller (doh!) - about half the size as adults - and have more of a plain but freckled face than banded and spotted wobbys.
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Blackfoot Paua (Haliotis iris)Observer
naturewatchwidowDescription
ID for the paua - same as this observation: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/75744067
