PhD Candidate at ANU. Regent honeyeater conservation & behaviour with the Difficult Bird Research Group
Joined November 2020
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Daniel Appleby retweeted
Fascinating paper from @apples_dan et al! Critically endangered regent honeyeaters sing simplified songs, reducing their reproductive success. As these songs have become more common, though, a frequency bias has kicked in and they are becoming attractive: royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Could not be prouder of @WaspGoblin and the incredible amount of work she’s done!
Daniel Appleby retweeted
First paper from my PhD! We reassessed the population trend for the swift parrot with a decade of data. 1/n
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Palm Cockatoos trying to impress a mate @CNZdenek
Daniel Appleby retweeted
The Regent Honeyeater is so rare its love song is at risk of being lost forever. But there’s new hope the critically endangered bird can be brought back from the edge of extinction through science, tech and a whole lot of human love.
#TheProjectTV
Daniel Appleby retweeted
As a Hymenopterist, finding a nesting agg. of Homalictus bees in my frontyard was beyond exciting! As a Mutilliologist, finding an undescribed sp. of mutillid parasitising said aggregation was beyond-beyond! Look at how they take turns guarding the nest-entrance between flight 😍 – at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Haven’t been able to do fieldwork for some time now, but I did get a chance to look through some photos of my last visit to Tas with @WaspGoblin. Shame about the low light on the pink robin
@teamswiftparrot i have one of a swiftie.. but it was outside a hungry jacks in Canberra, not the most glamorous shot
Daniel Appleby retweeted
The regent honeyeater is still in the race for #BirdOfTheYear.
The critically endangered bird is losing its "song culture" & if they don't learn to sing a sexy enough song, their chances of mating are reduced.
📖: anu.edu.au/news/all-news/los…
🗳️: theguardian.com/environment/… #BirdNerd
Daniel Appleby retweeted
Dear @Matt_KeanMP, can you please explain how this decision will assist your government's target of zero extinctions? theconversation.com/destroyi… #auspol
Daniel Appleby retweeted
It would cost 0.1% of GDP each year to restore every habitat type in Australia to 30% of its original extent - more support for NRM bodies and land managers is urgent – at Brisbane, Queensland
New paper: The costs and benefits of restoring a continent's terrestrial ecosystems. @BonMappin et al. show that expected costs to restore Australia’s ecosystems to reach 30% vegetation coverage can be paid for by the expected #carbon revenue @HugePossum
👉ow.ly/3HR550G9CCX
Right back at you!
In recognition #ThreatenedSpeciesDay I would like to acknowledge the dedicated #RegentHoneyeater researchers who Ive had the privilege to work with these past few years in our effort to save the species from the brink of extinction @apples_dan @CratesRoss @PitcherBen @tarongazoo
Daniel Appleby retweeted
I had a chat with @micksfoley today about @tarongazoo’s efforts to teach #Endangered #RegentHoneyeaters to sing. The research is in collaboration with @ANUFennerSchool’s @CratesRoss and @apples_dan
Critically endangered regent honeyeaters’ get homeschooled to re-learn wild melodies after losing their song smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
Daniel Appleby retweeted
Cool science 🚨🚨🚨
‼️COOL SCIENCE‼️Our new paper shows how we used weather-sensitive time-sliced modelling to design a national monitoring program for the rare and highly mobile #regenthoneyeater 🖤💛🖤
With the amazing @teamswiftparrot
@ayeshatulloch and @CratesRoss 🍀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Daniel Appleby retweeted
Taronga is also reminding #RegentHoneyeaters how to tweet! Their song has been changing, perhaps due to small fragmented populations &reduced opportunity to learn from adults. Taronga keepers began playing songs to juvenile birds to teach them the right ones to sing. #ScienceWeek
