#muttonbirds — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #muttonbirds, aggregated by home.social.
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Swamp wallaby sighting on Giidany Miirlarl, (Muttonbird Island Nature Reserve.) >>
https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/swamp-wallaby-sighted-on-muttonbird-islandHow did the marsupial managed to get onto the island through such a hostile environment? Wallabies rapidly disappear from the #CoffsHarbour landscape.
#Muttonbirds #MuttonBirdIsland #biodiversity #wildlife #birds #seabirds #shearwaters #wallabies #dogs #GiidanyMiirlarlImage: Walkway to the island. The hot 'rockery' used to have flowering native trees full of singing birds. At the end of the walk: pigeons torn apart by wo/men's best friend.
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Taking care of Country: Looking after Short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds)
" ‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey. A new knowledge-sharing project aims to ensure the survival of the migratory short-tailed shearwater."
"First Nations peoples on both coasts have noticed that something is wrong. They began to see sick and dying shearwaters washing up on beaches: emaciated, their bellies filled with microplastics instead of food. Birds were turning up in places they hadn’t been." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/26/indigenous-groups-australia-alaska-track-short-tailed-shearwater-bird#birds #ShortTailedShearwaters #muttonbirds #shearwaters #wildlife #migration #ShiftingBaseline #ClimateCrisis #microplastics #StarvingWildlife #IndigenousPeoples
Image: Giidanyba, The Moon Man, Muttonbird depiction, Gumbaynggirr Country
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Spotted-tailed quoll out of habitat
"Residents have reported sightings of a spotted-tailed quoll at the Coffs Harbour Marina."
There are concerns for the animal's welfare due to a hostile environment of roads, sprawl, dogs and fishing gear.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-23/vulnerable-spotted-tail-quoll-spotted-at-coffs-harbour-marina/105923582
#CoffsHarbour #wildlife #quoll #dogs #sprawl #NSWLogging #fishinggear #MuttonBirds -
Why are dead and dying seabirds washing up on our beaches in their hundreds?
"Millions of short-tailed shearwaters (Ardenna tenuirostis), commonly known as muttonbirds, return to southern Australia from the Arctic each spring – a round trip of up to 35,000km.Muttonbird wrecks have happened on rare occasions since time immemorial, but are becoming more common.The many ideas about what is causing wrecks range from storms and overfishing to plastic, blue-green algae and irradiated water from Fukushima."
"When muttonbird wrecks occur, the casualties are starving. These birds weigh only half their healthy body weight. The factors leading to this starvation start before they reach Australia."
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https://theconversation.com/why-are-dead-and-dying-seabirds-washing-up-on-our-beaches-in-their-hundreds-217349
#birds #seabirds #muttonbirds #wreck #NSW #MarineHeatwaves #migration #starvation #salmon #overfishing -
A Thing Well Made, The Mutton Birds. Perhaps Aotearoa's greatest storyteller-in-a-song is Don McGlashan. Here he eerily echoes the terrible tragedy at Aramoana.
It's Wednesday
So I do the mail orders
There's nothing much
Some oilskins and a 303
For a hunter over in Westland
And oh yeah
One of those AK-47s
For some collector down the line#JukeboxFridayNight #AStoryTold #MuttonBirds #Don McGlashan #Aramoana
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Here's the first - by a kiwi who went to the UK as part of the #MuttonBirds but succumbed to drugs and more recently cancer... Chris Sheehan, aka Chris Starling, or Starlings with "That's it, you're still in trouble": https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=kPfoevvowiY or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPfoevvowiY mesmerising guitar loop, and one of my favourite beats outside of James Brown's catalogue. #SeriouslyUnderratedSongs
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@plambrechtsen Love that song, as did our teenage children. Once, when visiting Auckland, we drove down Dominion Road with the song blasting out of the CD player. Such fun!