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A Matter of Scale

Small creatures, big results

Feb 23

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.

Feb 23

Looking Both Ways

Hiding in plain sight

Feb 9

Looking Both Ways

Feb 9

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

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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