Bill Bateman
@acanthoplus
At Curtin Uni, Perth, W. Aus - urban ecology, behavioural ecology, wildlife, conservation Twitter @Acanthoplus Lab. Page:
“There’s a huge rat on your deck!” “How dare you - her name is Quendalina Jolie”
#birdsseenin2026 Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata Perth WA demonstrating with its melodious song why it is sometimes known as a Throttlebird
Sunrise on campus on the last week of semester. The brief gap between no more lectures and the start of exams. Good luck everyone!
Creatures on Campus on #Curtin Campus last Friday and Saturday - fantastic displays and some of us were able to get up on stage and talk about our research! thewest.com.au/news/perth/c...
Look at him: just sitting there waiting for me to drop my guard so he can swoop in and try and steal a biscuit and cause as much chaos as he can #kookaburra #urbanecology
An excellent final talk on his PhD by Thilo Krueger on the best plants there are - Drosera. Well done Thilo. #curtinmls #ecology
Social bobtails - a pipe in the garden makes a snug home for two #urbanecology #wildoz
Stole a chip the thieving bastard and now doesn’t know what to do with it. Kookaburra #birdsseenin2026
Long billed corellas doing some lawn work #birds #urbanecology #birdsseenin2026
Australasian Raven Corvus coronoides wondering if I have any food I’d like to share #birds #birdsseenin2026
Come to help clean up the bbq grill. Kookaburra #birds #birdsseenin2026
The Carnaby’s cockatoos have descended on Curtin campus again - listen to those calls #birds #wildoz #birdsseenin2026
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae with a grasshopper for the whiny baby #birds #birdsseenin2026 Perth WA
Red wattled lapwing, magpie-robin, white-vented mynah - all urban Bangkok #birds #birdsseenin2026
Awesome mounted skeleton of reticulated python (Mahidol University Bangkok)