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Robin Sinclair

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Field Ecologist with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy in Australia's Top End. Living in Garramilla/Darwin on Larrakia Country. He/they.

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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · Feb 26

I'm the subject of this month's "People of AWC" article.
Click through to learn a little about me, my work and my background in conservation.
www.australianwildlife.org/meet-the-peo...

Meet the people of AWC: Field Ecologist Robin Sinclair

Get to know Robin Sinclair, Australian Wildlife Conservancy's Field Ecologist based at Mt Gibson Wildlife Sanctuary in WA.

www.australianwildlife.org

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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 31m

Yep, that's my understanding. We have roost caves on Pungalina too, but we only visit them when we need to survey the population because they are sensitive to human disturbance.

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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 45m

Ghost bats (Macroderma gigas) are Australia's only bat species that feeds on large vertebrates. On a recent fieldwork trip to AWC's Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary, we visited one of their feeding caves where we found remains of owlet nightjars and rainbow bee-eaters caught by bats 😮. #WildOz

A pile of colourful feathers plucked from a rainbow bee-eater and discarded by a ghost bat.

The two detached wings of an owlet nightjar sitting on a cave floor.

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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 1h

It's doing really well. I've just started working there so I don't have a good frame of reference, but the habitats are looking really healthy, the fire program is going well and feral herbivores are being managed well.

Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks! Very lucky to be in the right place at the right time 😊

Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you!

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20h

A jacky winter at Hattah-Kulkyne National Park.

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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 23h

Gouldian Ficnhes are listed as endangered under the EPBC act, with numbers once thought to be as low as 2500. Their primary threat is inappropriate fire regimes resulting in large, hot late dry season fires which destroy the tree hollows the nest in and reduce the availability of the seed they eat

About 8 Gouldian Finches perched in a tree. There is a mix of adult and juvenile bird with both red and black faces.

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Robin Sinclair @robinssci.bsky.social · 23h

A highlight of a recent fieldwork trip to AWC's Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary was seeing my first Gouldian Finches.
We only got a brief look at a group of 6 on sanctuary (thrilling nonetheless) but then on the way back to Darwin we had ~130 of them visit our campsite in Limmen National Park.
#WildOz

Six Gouldian Finches, five sat on a lawn with a sixth coming in to land, it's wings outstretched behind it. There is one dull grey-green juvenile bird and five colourful adults. The adults have a yellow belly, purple chests, green back and bright blue on their tail and ringing their faces, which are either red or black.

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Aussie Moths @wa-moths.bsky.social · 1d

Another #spider for the end of #Arachtober 🕷️

Meet the incredibly handsome Banksia Peacock spider (Maratus mungaich). He’ll use those amazing colours on his abdomen to try and impress the lady spiders
#ausinverts #wildoz #arachnids #inaturalist #nature

Picture of a small spider with a dazzlingly colourful abdomen in greens and reds

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Kristi Ellingsen @kristiellingsen.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry spider haters, but this was just the most beautiful beast & I knew (nearly everyone) would need to see it 😉. It sat frozen, up on its toes, on the edge of Leeman (WA) salt lake while I took pics. Unfortunately it was too big (body length 1.4cm) for my lens. #spider #Lycosidae #Tetralycosa