Stephen Fricker
@stephenfricker.bsky.social
Interests include public health, Environment, Evolution Mosquitos and citizen science engagement
Co-founder GSBioblitz
Opinions expressed are my own.
Northern Territory, Aus, https://linktr.ee/stephenfricker
Co-founder GSBioblitz
Opinions expressed are my own.
Northern Territory, Aus, https://linktr.ee/stephenfricker
Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) at Lee Point!
Spotted this amazing Arctic migrant near Buffalo Creek yesterday.
On our shores they forage along beaches & tidal flats for worms, molluscs & crustaceans. Incredible travellers! 🌏✨ #Darwin #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Migration #Australia
Spotted this amazing Arctic migrant near Buffalo Creek yesterday.
On our shores they forage along beaches & tidal flats for worms, molluscs & crustaceans. Incredible travellers! 🌏✨ #Darwin #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Migration #Australia
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) at Lee Point!
Spotted this amazing Arctic migrant near Buffalo Creek yesterday.
On our shores they forage along beaches & tidal flats for worms, molluscs & crustaceans. Incredible travellers! 🌏✨ #Darwin #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Migration #Australia
Spotted this amazing Arctic migrant near Buffalo Creek yesterday.
On our shores they forage along beaches & tidal flats for worms, molluscs & crustaceans. Incredible travellers! 🌏✨ #Darwin #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Migration #Australia
Two Grey Teal (Anas gracilis) another #BirdsSeenIn2025!
I saw these in Adelaide Australia last month, I haven't seen them much in the Top End.
#wildoz #birdsofoz
I saw these in Adelaide Australia last month, I haven't seen them much in the Top End.
#wildoz #birdsofoz
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Two Grey Teal (Anas gracilis) another #BirdsSeenIn2025!
I saw these in Adelaide Australia last month, I haven't seen them much in the Top End.
#wildoz #birdsofoz
I saw these in Adelaide Australia last month, I haven't seen them much in the Top End.
#wildoz #birdsofoz
A Superb Fairywren 'Malurus cyaneus' from a recent visit to Adelaide
#inaturalist #328340243
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdsofoz #wildoz
#inaturalist #328340243
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdsofoz #wildoz
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A Superb Fairywren 'Malurus cyaneus' from a recent visit to Adelaide
#inaturalist #328340243
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdsofoz #wildoz
#inaturalist #328340243
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdsofoz #wildoz
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
🐞🐜🪲🪰🐛🐌 This week (Nov 17-23) is Bugs in My Backyard week in Australia … not that I need any excuse to get out and look for bugs!
And there are lots about at the minute, like these tiny Crusader Bug nymphs (Mictis profana) that had just hatched
#ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #nature #Heteroptera
And there are lots about at the minute, like these tiny Crusader Bug nymphs (Mictis profana) that had just hatched
#ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #nature #Heteroptera
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
🐞🐜🪲🪰🐛🐌 This week (Nov 17-23) is Bugs in My Backyard week in Australia … not that I need any excuse to get out and look for bugs!
And there are lots about at the minute, like these tiny Crusader Bug nymphs (Mictis profana) that had just hatched
#ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #nature #Heteroptera
And there are lots about at the minute, like these tiny Crusader Bug nymphs (Mictis profana) that had just hatched
#ausinverts #wildoz #inaturalist #nature #Heteroptera
Didn't even hear this come down this morning.
One of the first casualties of Fina in Darwin
One of the first casualties of Fina in Darwin
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Didn't even hear this come down this morning.
One of the first casualties of Fina in Darwin
One of the first casualties of Fina in Darwin
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
#GSB2025 Highlight: A stunning record of the Southern Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa ssp. famosa)
These sunbirds play a vital role as pollinators of Aloe, Protea, and other long-tubed fynbos flowers, adding both beauty and ecological importance to their habitats.
These sunbirds play a vital role as pollinators of Aloe, Protea, and other long-tubed fynbos flowers, adding both beauty and ecological importance to their habitats.
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
#GSB2025 Highlight: A stunning record of the Southern Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa ssp. famosa)
These sunbirds play a vital role as pollinators of Aloe, Protea, and other long-tubed fynbos flowers, adding both beauty and ecological importance to their habitats.
These sunbirds play a vital role as pollinators of Aloe, Protea, and other long-tubed fynbos flowers, adding both beauty and ecological importance to their habitats.
Silver-crowned Friarbird 'Philemon argenticeps' #BirdsSeenIn2025 on a very productive Day 3 of the #GSB2025 Darwin, Australia
October 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Silver-crowned Friarbird 'Philemon argenticeps' #BirdsSeenIn2025 on a very productive Day 3 of the #GSB2025 Darwin, Australia
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
The first record of #GSB2025 is in!
📍 Mangawhai, New Zealand
🦋 Pūriri Moth (Aenetus virescens) — NZ’s largest moth!
📸 by young naturalist Joseph Knight
Read more 👉https://www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/group/great-southern-bioblitz-explorers/discussion/6f1af2e4-f75f-410a-b0cc-d4eb53dc3395
📍 Mangawhai, New Zealand
🦋 Pūriri Moth (Aenetus virescens) — NZ’s largest moth!
📸 by young naturalist Joseph Knight
Read more 👉https://www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/group/great-southern-bioblitz-explorers/discussion/6f1af2e4-f75f-410a-b0cc-d4eb53dc3395
Pūriri moth (Aenetus virescens)
Pūriri moth from Mangawhai, New Zealand on October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM by Joseph Knight
www.inaturalist.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The first record of #GSB2025 is in!
📍 Mangawhai, New Zealand
🦋 Pūriri Moth (Aenetus virescens) — NZ’s largest moth!
📸 by young naturalist Joseph Knight
Read more 👉https://www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/group/great-southern-bioblitz-explorers/discussion/6f1af2e4-f75f-410a-b0cc-d4eb53dc3395
📍 Mangawhai, New Zealand
🦋 Pūriri Moth (Aenetus virescens) — NZ’s largest moth!
📸 by young naturalist Joseph Knight
Read more 👉https://www.greatsouthernbioblitz.org/group/great-southern-bioblitz-explorers/discussion/6f1af2e4-f75f-410a-b0cc-d4eb53dc3395
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
We have less than one day till the GSB2025.
What is your goal?
Find new species?
A number of records or species? visit a new place?
What is your goal?
Find new species?
A number of records or species? visit a new place?
October 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We have less than one day till the GSB2025.
What is your goal?
Find new species?
A number of records or species? visit a new place?
What is your goal?
Find new species?
A number of records or species? visit a new place?
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
🌿 Only 4 days to go until #GSB2025!
🤖 Use iNat’s AI suggestions wisely — double-check rare finds.
🧠 Be kind in IDs — everyone’s a volunteer!
📸 Even if not “Research Grade,” every observation counts.
Join in: greatsouthernbioblitz.org 🌍
🤖 Use iNat’s AI suggestions wisely — double-check rare finds.
🧠 Be kind in IDs — everyone’s a volunteer!
📸 Even if not “Research Grade,” every observation counts.
Join in: greatsouthernbioblitz.org 🌍
October 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
🌿 Only 4 days to go until #GSB2025!
🤖 Use iNat’s AI suggestions wisely — double-check rare finds.
🧠 Be kind in IDs — everyone’s a volunteer!
📸 Even if not “Research Grade,” every observation counts.
Join in: greatsouthernbioblitz.org 🌍
🤖 Use iNat’s AI suggestions wisely — double-check rare finds.
🧠 Be kind in IDs — everyone’s a volunteer!
📸 Even if not “Research Grade,” every observation counts.
Join in: greatsouthernbioblitz.org 🌍
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
🌿 Only 5 days to go until #GSB2025!
Your iNaturalist photos don’t just sit online — they power real conservation 🌍
✔ Shared with GBIF
✔ Used by Red List teams
✔ Map species & habitats
Every photo = data for nature! 📸✨
👉 greatsouthernbioblitz.org
Your iNaturalist photos don’t just sit online — they power real conservation 🌍
✔ Shared with GBIF
✔ Used by Red List teams
✔ Map species & habitats
Every photo = data for nature! 📸✨
👉 greatsouthernbioblitz.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
🌿 Only 5 days to go until #GSB2025!
Your iNaturalist photos don’t just sit online — they power real conservation 🌍
✔ Shared with GBIF
✔ Used by Red List teams
✔ Map species & habitats
Every photo = data for nature! 📸✨
👉 greatsouthernbioblitz.org
Your iNaturalist photos don’t just sit online — they power real conservation 🌍
✔ Shared with GBIF
✔ Used by Red List teams
✔ Map species & habitats
Every photo = data for nature! 📸✨
👉 greatsouthernbioblitz.org
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
Check out our annual Moth night Members project on @inaturalist.bsky.social held during the #GSB2025
Anyone can participate!
Just join the project are record moths 24-27th Oct
www.inaturalist.org/projects/mot...
Anyone can participate!
Just join the project are record moths 24-27th Oct
www.inaturalist.org/projects/mot...
October 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Check out our annual Moth night Members project on @inaturalist.bsky.social held during the #GSB2025
Anyone can participate!
Just join the project are record moths 24-27th Oct
www.inaturalist.org/projects/mot...
Anyone can participate!
Just join the project are record moths 24-27th Oct
www.inaturalist.org/projects/mot...
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
🌿 7 Days to the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025! 🌏
next weekend spend your time on iNaturalist and lets make #GSB2025 our biggest and most biodiverse event yet!
next weekend spend your time on iNaturalist and lets make #GSB2025 our biggest and most biodiverse event yet!
October 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
🌿 7 Days to the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025! 🌏
next weekend spend your time on iNaturalist and lets make #GSB2025 our biggest and most biodiverse event yet!
next weekend spend your time on iNaturalist and lets make #GSB2025 our biggest and most biodiverse event yet!
Great to see this event in Canterbury!
Join the Mahoe Reserve Bioblitz in Lincoln!
🗓 Sat 25 Oct 2025, 2–4 pm
Help Canterbury Museum & Lincoln Envirotown record local species for the #GSB2025.
🦋 Explore, identify & learn — all ages welcome!
📱 Bring iNaturalist & your curiosity!
#BioBlitz #Christchurch #CitizenScience #Nature
🗓 Sat 25 Oct 2025, 2–4 pm
Help Canterbury Museum & Lincoln Envirotown record local species for the #GSB2025.
🦋 Explore, identify & learn — all ages welcome!
📱 Bring iNaturalist & your curiosity!
#BioBlitz #Christchurch #CitizenScience #Nature
October 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Great to see this event in Canterbury!
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
🌍 African Baobab — Adansonia digitata, from Zambezi, Namibia, one of Africa’s most iconic trees.🌳
📸 Tristan Kolling, known as the “upside-down tree”, it can live for over a thousand years, its trunk stores water, providing food, shelter, and medicine to countless species including people.
📸 Tristan Kolling, known as the “upside-down tree”, it can live for over a thousand years, its trunk stores water, providing food, shelter, and medicine to countless species including people.
October 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🌍 African Baobab — Adansonia digitata, from Zambezi, Namibia, one of Africa’s most iconic trees.🌳
📸 Tristan Kolling, known as the “upside-down tree”, it can live for over a thousand years, its trunk stores water, providing food, shelter, and medicine to countless species including people.
📸 Tristan Kolling, known as the “upside-down tree”, it can live for over a thousand years, its trunk stores water, providing food, shelter, and medicine to countless species including people.
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
🌿Just 20 days to go until the #GSB2025!
📸 Grab your camera or phone, head outdoors, and help record the amazing biodiversity around you. Every observation counts toward building a better picture of nature across the Southern Hemisphere.
🌍 Tell your buds and make this the biggest BioBlitz yet!
📸 Grab your camera or phone, head outdoors, and help record the amazing biodiversity around you. Every observation counts toward building a better picture of nature across the Southern Hemisphere.
🌍 Tell your buds and make this the biggest BioBlitz yet!
October 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🌿Just 20 days to go until the #GSB2025!
📸 Grab your camera or phone, head outdoors, and help record the amazing biodiversity around you. Every observation counts toward building a better picture of nature across the Southern Hemisphere.
🌍 Tell your buds and make this the biggest BioBlitz yet!
📸 Grab your camera or phone, head outdoors, and help record the amazing biodiversity around you. Every observation counts toward building a better picture of nature across the Southern Hemisphere.
🌍 Tell your buds and make this the biggest BioBlitz yet!
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
🦜 20 Days to #GSB2025!
The excitement is building — 20 days until we start recording nature across the Southern Hemisphere!
🐾 Every photo and sound recording you upload to iNaturalist helps us learn more about local species.
🎯 Let’s make this the biggest bioblitz yet!
#Biodiversity #CitizenScience
The excitement is building — 20 days until we start recording nature across the Southern Hemisphere!
🐾 Every photo and sound recording you upload to iNaturalist helps us learn more about local species.
🎯 Let’s make this the biggest bioblitz yet!
#Biodiversity #CitizenScience
October 3, 2025 at 4:45 AM
🦜 20 Days to #GSB2025!
The excitement is building — 20 days until we start recording nature across the Southern Hemisphere!
🐾 Every photo and sound recording you upload to iNaturalist helps us learn more about local species.
🎯 Let’s make this the biggest bioblitz yet!
#Biodiversity #CitizenScience
The excitement is building — 20 days until we start recording nature across the Southern Hemisphere!
🐾 Every photo and sound recording you upload to iNaturalist helps us learn more about local species.
🎯 Let’s make this the biggest bioblitz yet!
#Biodiversity #CitizenScience
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
Red-legged Seriema (Cariama cristata) spotted in São José de Imbassai, Maricá – RJ, Brasil 🇧🇷
A striking ground-dwelling predator with vivid red legs & a proud crest!
📸 © Giovanna Roque de Castro
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#Birds #CitizenScience #GSB2025
A striking ground-dwelling predator with vivid red legs & a proud crest!
📸 © Giovanna Roque de Castro
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#Birds #CitizenScience #GSB2025
September 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Red-legged Seriema (Cariama cristata) spotted in São José de Imbassai, Maricá – RJ, Brasil 🇧🇷
A striking ground-dwelling predator with vivid red legs & a proud crest!
📸 © Giovanna Roque de Castro
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#Birds #CitizenScience #GSB2025
A striking ground-dwelling predator with vivid red legs & a proud crest!
📸 © Giovanna Roque de Castro
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#Birds #CitizenScience #GSB2025
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
Important Dates for the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025
Remember: it’s the date observed that counts!
Upload during the challenge or later (until 10 Nov).
Identifications can continue until 10 November.
You don’t need to ID your own observations to submit them, though you’re welcome to.
Remember: it’s the date observed that counts!
Upload during the challenge or later (until 10 Nov).
Identifications can continue until 10 November.
You don’t need to ID your own observations to submit them, though you’re welcome to.
September 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Important Dates for the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025
Remember: it’s the date observed that counts!
Upload during the challenge or later (until 10 Nov).
Identifications can continue until 10 November.
You don’t need to ID your own observations to submit them, though you’re welcome to.
Remember: it’s the date observed that counts!
Upload during the challenge or later (until 10 Nov).
Identifications can continue until 10 November.
You don’t need to ID your own observations to submit them, though you’re welcome to.
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
This Staurostichus hilaris hovering as it pollinated Pepper-and-Salt in Baldivis, WA
📸 : www.inaturalist.org/observations...
@daniel_heald (CC-BY-NC)
while fuzzy and cute, they’re also important #pollinators! Every #GSB2025 observation builds #biodiversity knowledge 🌍
#CitizenScience
📸 : www.inaturalist.org/observations...
@daniel_heald (CC-BY-NC)
while fuzzy and cute, they’re also important #pollinators! Every #GSB2025 observation builds #biodiversity knowledge 🌍
#CitizenScience
September 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This Staurostichus hilaris hovering as it pollinated Pepper-and-Salt in Baldivis, WA
📸 : www.inaturalist.org/observations...
@daniel_heald (CC-BY-NC)
while fuzzy and cute, they’re also important #pollinators! Every #GSB2025 observation builds #biodiversity knowledge 🌍
#CitizenScience
📸 : www.inaturalist.org/observations...
@daniel_heald (CC-BY-NC)
while fuzzy and cute, they’re also important #pollinators! Every #GSB2025 observation builds #biodiversity knowledge 🌍
#CitizenScience
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
🐜🔥 The Bull Ant is getting ready… are you?
Only 25 days to go until the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025! 🌍✨
From ants to whales, every observation counts. Grab your camera, phone, and join nature lovers across the Southern Hemisphere.
📅 24–27 October 2025
👉 buff.ly/nhAd2B1
Only 25 days to go until the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025! 🌍✨
From ants to whales, every observation counts. Grab your camera, phone, and join nature lovers across the Southern Hemisphere.
📅 24–27 October 2025
👉 buff.ly/nhAd2B1
September 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🐜🔥 The Bull Ant is getting ready… are you?
Only 25 days to go until the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025! 🌍✨
From ants to whales, every observation counts. Grab your camera, phone, and join nature lovers across the Southern Hemisphere.
📅 24–27 October 2025
👉 buff.ly/nhAd2B1
Only 25 days to go until the Great Southern BioBlitz 2025! 🌍✨
From ants to whales, every observation counts. Grab your camera, phone, and join nature lovers across the Southern Hemisphere.
📅 24–27 October 2025
👉 buff.ly/nhAd2B1
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
One month to go!
Follow to keep in touch.
@bethelskope.bsky.social
Follow to keep in touch.
@bethelskope.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
One month to go!
Follow to keep in touch.
@bethelskope.bsky.social
Follow to keep in touch.
@bethelskope.bsky.social
Reposted by Stephen Fricker
🌸 30 Days to Go!
One month until the Great Southern Bioblitz 2025 kicks off!
It’s the perfect time to invite your friends, family, or community group to join you.
📅 24–27 October 2025 — save the date and charge those camera batteries!
#GSB2025 #NatureLovers #CitizenScience
buff.ly/AqpdMst
One month until the Great Southern Bioblitz 2025 kicks off!
It’s the perfect time to invite your friends, family, or community group to join you.
📅 24–27 October 2025 — save the date and charge those camera batteries!
#GSB2025 #NatureLovers #CitizenScience
buff.ly/AqpdMst
September 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
🌸 30 Days to Go!
One month until the Great Southern Bioblitz 2025 kicks off!
It’s the perfect time to invite your friends, family, or community group to join you.
📅 24–27 October 2025 — save the date and charge those camera batteries!
#GSB2025 #NatureLovers #CitizenScience
buff.ly/AqpdMst
One month until the Great Southern Bioblitz 2025 kicks off!
It’s the perfect time to invite your friends, family, or community group to join you.
📅 24–27 October 2025 — save the date and charge those camera batteries!
#GSB2025 #NatureLovers #CitizenScience
buff.ly/AqpdMst
I spied a Red-headed Myzomela 'Myzomela erythrocephala' today for The Home River Bioblitz 2025 - Rapid Creek
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #aves
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #aves
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
September 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I spied a Red-headed Myzomela 'Myzomela erythrocephala' today for The Home River Bioblitz 2025 - Rapid Creek
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #aves
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #aves
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Brown Goshawk Tachyspiza fasciata seen in Darwin, Australia back in April
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #wildoz
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #wildoz
September 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Brown Goshawk Tachyspiza fasciata seen in Darwin, Australia back in April
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #wildoz
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#BirdsSeenIn2025 #wildoz