Nick Carter

Live in Melbourne and concerned about rat poisons and what they are doing to our wildlife? We are talking about this at Blackburn Lake tomorrow afternoon. Love for you to join us. Bookings here aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

@DoktrNick @OneworldNews Ooohhh I didn't know it was out! Jennifer interviewed the deakin powl team about some of our experiences with owls, and I remember the convo being so fun and heartwarming, she is an amazing person. Can't wait to read it and yep - powls are some strong critters!! 🦉

@DoktrNick @janey64 @EuanRitchie1 @MondayStory @bradsey @JWhiteWildlife @lucyparkerpaul Wow theres a lot of Nicks studying Powls 😂 yep we have experienced the female leaving the hollow to fly around for a bit and also meet up with her partner nearby through countless monitoring surveys of heaps of pairs in Vic. Awesome obs Harry and how cool are thermal scopes!! 🦉

Powerful owl action from just after sunset last night (not filmed on a potato, just filmed at distance with a thermal scope through bushes): owl leaves a nest hollow; ten minutes later owl returns to nest hollow.

@BigBirdMegan Wow thats awesome and such a cute owl!! I'm catching Powerful Owls at the moment in Australia, and know how difficult owls are to deal with hahah. What's your trapping method if you don't mind sharing?

Everyone say hello to ‘Cheerio’, the second adult male trapped this year! I’m trapping adults in order to assess home range size, foraging distance in relation to maximum daily temperature and roosting micro site selection. Cheerio’s got a good glare.

Squuueeee!!! Floof ball alert the baby powerful owls are emerging from their hollows. This one in a landscape with lots of agriculture. Its mum had a range that covered a massive area to link patches of bush. Those linkages in the landscape are ohhh so important.

Giving nature a chance in our cities is up to YOU! Things you can easily do 1) embrace native plants 2) plant a canopy tree 3) plant out your nature strip 4) say no to rat poisons 5) encourage others to do the same We all need to take collective action. Share the love for nature!

Yay owls 🦉

Thread: The first #OA paper from my PhD is out! We found that social media users will engage with images of reptiles🦎 , amphibians 🐸, invertebrates 🐞 and molluscs 🐙 just as much as they will with birds 🦜 and mammals 🐨 mdpi.com/1721644 @Animals_MDPI #consocsci

@ThePhDPlace Owls go hoot 🦉

@SallyRMelb @Northcoteer @MondayStory That looks more like a Tawny Frogmouth than a Powerful Owl, but still so cool you saw a Tawny - love them!

SUGAR GLIDER IN YARRA BEND PARK!! 😍 I’d heard authoritatively that they were in Yarra Bend - in fact I was looking for gliders last year when I first heard the powerful owl - but I’d given up on them being in my local patch until last night when a friend told me he’d seen one 😊

A massive pile of owl vomit! Trackers on owls can certainly help find well used roosting sites pretty quickly. Anyone for a career in owl vomitology?

Woo two individuals from different areas caught and tagged the last two nights 🥳🦉

Woo Hoooooo! Off heads another powerful owl carrying a GPS tracker. Where will she go? Time will tell. The data will be critical in helping local government plan around her need for habitat.

To all PhD students, you’re probably doing a lot better than you think you are. #PhDVoice @PostdocVoice

ALERT! Powerful owls don't generally eat rodents yet in this paper we show 83% of them have rat poison in their livers. Likely explanation possums are eating rat poison and being eaten by owls! Extremely concerning on many levels. New threatening process? authors.elsevier.com/c/1eRxxB8ccudRp

Powerful owls and rodent poisons. Our latest research in the Age today. Think before you reach for the poisons you really don’t know where they will end up. theage.com.au/national/victo…

@teamswiftparrot @LRayner_ 🏳️‍🌈🥳

Happy #LGBTQSTEMDay from us two massive #science homos 🌈🌈

@daniwallace95 @PhDVoice Woooo thats so awesome! Massive congrats friend 😊

Officially #confirmed 🥳🥳🥳 Gave my PhD confirmation seminar online but I don't think Zoom did my froggy outfit justice 🐸 Now time for field work and catching frogs! @PhDVoice #phdlife #frogs #itscalledfashion #HERper

@bradsey @UrbanPowerfuls @JWhiteWildlife @CookeRaylene Awesome work Nicco, you're an absolute owl champion! 🦉 time for some well deserved beers I think 🍻