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Bronwen Scott

A Matter of Scale

Small creatures, big results

6d ago

Detail of an embroidered mantle. The fabris is dyed deep red and gold embroidery depicts a stylised lion with a mane that looks like flames and a striped body. The finer details are picked out in double rows of pearls.

6d ago

Looking Both Ways

Hiding in plain sight

Feb 9

Looking Both Ways

Feb 9

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Over the Edge

One more bird becomes extinct on our watch

Dec 15, 2024

Painting of a noble if sad-looking bird with long legs, long neck and a long, slender, down-curved bill. The curlew has brown feathers on back and wings and black spots on neck and breast. It stands on one leg with the other slighly raised. It is beside a clump of straggy grass with a water body and mountain in the background.

Dec 15, 2024

Spring Surprise

A blizzard of iridescence

Nov 10, 2024

A Zodiac Moth with wings spread showing the pink — orange — yellow — green iridescence between the black bands and the white scalloped edge to the hind wings. If you didn’t know it was a moth, you’d swear it was a swallowtail butterfly.

Nov 10, 2024

Sightlines

Keeping an eye on the birds

Oct 28, 2024

Bird with a stunning two-tone blue face, black mohawk, olive back and wings, and white front with a black bib.

Oct 28, 2024

If Looks Could…

The (un)natural history of Basilisks

Oct 7, 2024

Woodcut of a strange looking critter with a long tail, raised and curled at the tip; a pudgy scaly body with eight legs; and a head with a curved beak and wattles, and bearing a crown wedged on a pointy head.

Oct 7, 2024

Digging that Scene

Invertebrates make a difference in the garden

Sep 27, 2024

Digging that Scene

Sep 27, 2024

It’s Cuckoo Time

All the birds are on high alert

Sep 9, 2024

Grey cuckoo with striped breast, yellow bill, eye ring and feet. The bird is perched on a lichen-covered twig and is facing left. It looks as though it is about to take off.

Sep 9, 2024

Wildlife in a Noisy World

Noise annoys — but it’s worse than that…

Aug 24, 2024

Bird with bright yellow underparts and sides, with a black head, black chest band, and white throat against a greenish background. The bird has bright dark eyes and an intense expression typical of Golden Whistlers.

Aug 24, 2024

King Henry VIII and the Spoonbill

The fall and rise of an unusual bird

Aug 10, 2024

A beautiful white spoonbill with black bill, floppy white crest, red throat and flush of yellow on the neck. The bird is leaning forward and a spray of water droplets falls from its bill.

Aug 10, 2024

Just One Tree

What difference can it make?

Jul 25, 2024

Bare oak tree in a paddock with vehicle tracks heading towards the horizon. There are groups of trees in the distance.

Jul 25, 2024

What’s in a Name?

The importance of taxonomy

Jul 20, 2024

A row of handsome, cinnamon-coloured ducks with dark caps. Most are preening but the second duck from the right is curious about the camera.

Jul 20, 2024

Nature, Knowledge and Us

Understanding the world through citizen science

May 26, 2024

Photo of a smartphone in landscape with an image of a small butterfly perched in the grass.

May 26, 2024

An Exuberance of Shells

We’ve always been fascinated by them

May 15, 2024

An Exuberance of Shells

May 15, 2024

Pairs of Ragged Wings

A butterfly calendar

Apr 23, 2024

Pairs of Ragged Wings

Apr 23, 2024

Elizabeth Blackwell: 18th century pioneer in Art, Botany and Copyright

She drew plants and tested the law

Mar 21, 2024

A garden packed with plants around a pond with a giant clam shell. Expensive terraced houses are in the background.

Mar 21, 2024

On Perseverance

Lessons from spiders

Feb 29, 2024

On Perseverance

Feb 29, 2024

Over the garden fence

The plants that got away

Feb 21, 2024

Over the garden fence

Feb 21, 2024

The Wonder of Wetlands

Celebrating World Wetlands Day on 2 February

Feb 2, 2024

The Wonder of Wetlands

Feb 2, 2024

Fragile Lives

Reflections on extinction

Jan 21, 2024

Fragile Lives

Jan 21, 2024

Bronwen Scott

Bronwen Scott

Zoologist, writer, artist, museum fan, enjoying life in the tropical rainforest of Far North Queensland. She/her. Website: bronwenscott.com

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