Bronwen Scott
Invertebrate zoologist; writer; artist; museum fan; bird watcher; living in the tropics; she/her. Sometimes in Guardian Australia. Otherwise snailseyeview.medium.com
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottSea cucumbers spend their lives burrowing into and eating mud + sand. But this beautiful species—Enypniastes—is also capable of swimming by slowly undulating the cape-like structure around its top. And it's not a trick of the light: its organs actually glow in the dark, which may deter predators.
- Reposted by Bronwen Scottyall want to see a sea hare, which is a puppy-sized sea slug with a very relaxing vibe
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottLook at the gorgeous green red grey combo on this baby gang gang - such a beautifully unexpected mix of colours
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottToday I had the good fortune of meeting a few beautiful firetails and until now I far not fully appreciated their fantastic snoots
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottHere is a cartoon about the heatwave and are we allowed to blame anyone for it. Also Gina Rinehart's turtle. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottDiscovered on a wall in limestone hills covered with mixed-deciduous forest in northeastern Thailand, two land snails were recently described as new species. Find out all about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottClemson will be hosting a workshop on Appalachian land snail and slug identification in May, led by Denise Furr and Emily Phifer from the Schiele Museum. More info and register here: clemsonbugs.org/workshops.html
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottGrunge gang gang
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottFistful of superb parrot
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottA #platypus waddles her way upstream, constantly foraging. As well as using touch to find food, platypus bills can detect the electrical impulses given off by their prey's muscular contractions. #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #platypuses #fieldwork
- AGREE! This is one of the best Hakea species. Probs the best. Hakea victoria, endemic to SW Western Australia. The flowers are small and modest, but the leaves are...well...you can see.
- I’ve never botanized in Australia, so I’ve never seen anything like this in the wild: Hakea victoria has magnificent, cabbage-like leaves that look like glowing embers. The small, white flowers, hidden by the leaves, are not showy. Photos are by don_vincent CCBYNC4. #Proteaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottRandom Delightful Fact of the Day - Eastern quolls go grey as they get older! A juvenile (~6 mths old) on the L, & a 4 yr old on the R (Worth noting that 4 yrs old is oooooold for an eastern quoll)
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottAurora sighting at Altona Beach #melbourne
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottThe @nhm-london.bsky.social has a new sparkle on display, & it’s rather nice A Smokey quartz crystal #octopus that took master carver Patrick Dreher 500 hours to craft- only fitting for a creature that’s spent millions of years evolving its complex nervous system & sophisticated behaviours
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottToday’s gang gang cockatoo was a cutie 🥲
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottNormally solos in rock songs are guitar solos. Not when you have a legend like Rob Hirst on the tools. If you've not heard the solo on Power and Passion, it's so worth a listen. RIP Rob Hirst www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pKP...
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottI wrote this some time ago - with all of us knowing this day would come, and Rob, of course, fighting like the bloody-minded bastard he was to the very end. He irrevocably changed my life - and how our country saw itself. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
- There was a kerfuffle in the garden when a Blue-faced Honeyeater found a very furry moth. The scales made it difficult to keep the moth under control. You can see them on the bill and in the air. I was Team Moth but the honeyeater won. Atherton Tablelands, Australia #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birds
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottHonestly superb parrot baby faces are so bloody cute
- Tried the other starter word today Wordle 1,674 3/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟨⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottOf course within a few days of flowering ...
- If I fits, I sits. Bush Stone-curlews are big fans of bird baths. I have to refill this bath several times a day because of their enthusiasm. (Once again, soz about the dodgy exposure but cyclones and cloudy skies...) Atherton Tablelands, Australia #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 1/2
- And some shots of this Bush Stone-curlew's companion. #Birds 2/2
- Close! Wordle 1,673 3/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
- 🎵 spider butt...spider butt... 🎵 You should definitely read this thread
- If the Buff-banded Rail is the best rallid, this species is not far behind. The secretive Pale-vented Bush Hen has modest plumage but that bill is something! Pic taken earlier this month during the build up of TC Koji. We had a lot of rain! Atherton Tablelands, Australia #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birds
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottCome work with us! We are seeking a tenure-track botanist, preferably in the areas of non-vascular, systematics, physiology or cell. Happy to answer questions. unbc.njoyn.com/CL/xweb/xweb... 🧪🌱 #botany
- Reposted by Bronwen Scott"As a wildlife ecologist and conservation expert, these fires bring an unwelcome but familiar mixture of deep sadness and intense frustration. As the climate gets hotter, such events will only become more likely and more severe." My article about Victoria's fires theconversation.com/in-the-most-...
- Here's a Buff-banded Rail making the most of a bird bath. I think we can all agree that this species is one of the finest--if not *the* finest--of the Rallidae. If there are better Rallidae, let me see them! Atherton Tablelands, Australia. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birds
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- Terrible photo because the bird was in the shade, but I do like this pic of a Buff-banded Rail caught in the middle of its ablutions. They are enthusiastic bathers, as you can tell! Atherton Tablelands, Australia. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birds #addBirder
- I should have started with my second starting word. Wordle 1,671 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottThey’re my most common pigeon visitors! Beautiful, underrated birds! 😊
- Every time I see one of these very common birds, I am amazed all over again at just how good our pigeons are. I mean, just look at it! And this species is everywhere. Crested Pigeon in my backyard, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. #BirdsSeenIn2026
- Well. Almost. Wordle 1,668 3/6 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
- The two species seen most frequently in my backyard on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland, Australia: Bush Stone-curlew and Bar-shouldered Dove. #BirdsSeenIn2026
- 'Tis the season for Australian Brush-turkey chicks. Two are hanging around together, happily scratching through what little leaf litter is around. They're shy and have been skulking, as you'd expect for goshawk dinner-sized birds. Taken late on a rainy day so soz they're so dark. #BirdsSeenIn2026
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottWelcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten timelines (it’s needed!). Here is my contribution; a crèche of Eider ducks marching to the sea #SuperSeabirdSunday
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottWhy is this flap-necked chameleon (Chamaeleo dilepis) moving erratically across a South African road & what does it have to do with pigeons bobbing their heads? The chameleon's disguise isn't complete without this herky-jerky motion. Let's learn about saccadic movement! (📷: nickkleer)
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottFound this Eastern Brown Snake snarled in bird netting last night. Returned this morning with some poly pipe for safe handling and sharp scissors. Released beside dam where it had a big drink. Timely reminder that bird netting is nasty stuff for wildlife—if you must use it, keep it off the ground!
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottBaby gang gang cockatoos have literally the silliest cutest faces
- Since we're on a cyclone warning, I decide that it was okay to eat all the chocolate biscuits in the cyclone kit. I might regret this, but not for a while.
- Now this is a massive unit! Look at this magnificent Kakapo.
- For our first and only artificial insemination of the #kakapo breeding season, we matched Pearl with Ralph (a founder who has no offspring) and Hurihuri - who was in excellent condition. #conservation #parrots #birds
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottHuzzuh - box jellyfish on the boardwalk www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottFor 2026 we have space for new community science projects in the Netherlands or abroad. So if you are a team of neighborhood nature enthusiasts who need expert help with biodiversity inventories, please drop us a line. #scicomm #insects #Biodiversity #communityscience #citizenscience #urbannature
- Almost! Wordle 1,663 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
- I see, Wordle, it's going to be like that. Wordle 1,662 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
- Flying in from Australia for MERL's #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay Magpie Goose; Plumed Whistling-ducks. Photos taken on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland.
- In the next few days we'll be sharing more about our birthday and what's coming up in 2026. Before then (important): we'll be marking #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay tomorrow!
- More Australian ducks for #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay Pink-eared Duck; Hardhead; Plumed Whistling-duck. All photos taken on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland.
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottIt’s publication day! 📖 🍾 Here is an intro to #NatureWithin… @pelagic.bsky.social
- Apols for the terrible back-of-camera shot, but I haven't downloaded the pics yet. This is a bad photo of a Very Good Bird that was scuttling around the garden this arvo: Pale-vented Bush Hen, Atherton Tablelands. It was one of a pair. #BirdsSeenIn2026
- Reposted by Bronwen ScottCome and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8…
- Reposted by Bronwen Scott2026 has been a long year.
- Anyway, I'm just looking through my photo files and here are some stunning Proteaceae from S Western Australia, a place of extraordinary plant diversity. 1) Banksia caleyi; 2) Hakea victoria; 3) Banksia coccinea.
- Well, this didn't last long.
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- Reposted by Bronwen ScottNew year, new you, new writing, new etc. Just trying to make it easier for you...
