🏙️🦊 Urban #wildlife like the #cockatoos in #Sydney and the #monkeys in #NewDelhi are learning similar bold strategies to find #food and communicate over traffic noise.

The global trend toward matching urban behaviors may leave species less equipped to survive in the wild. Researchers are studying these changes to better understand how human expansion reshapes animal #evolution.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-animals-are-adapting-to-city-life-in-surprising-ways-scientists-reveal

#cities #biology #conservation #nature #science #animals #ecology

It's the time of year where crackles of sulphur crested #cockatoos go through plane trees and liquidambars, eating the seed pods.

They're messy eaters, leaving a huge amount of green detritus as they work their way from tree to tree stripping seeds and forcing them to the ground to be eaten by other members of the crackle, working their way along from tree to tree.

#ParrotOfTheDay #cockatoo #cockatoosofmastodon

For sale: bird feeding box, only 8 years old! Lovingly home made to feed greedy entitled #AustralianBirds such as #Cockatoos #Corellas #Gallahs and #Doves.

Some renovations and alterations carried out, particularly by Cockatoos.

Cockatoos!
Everyone loves cockatoos (except property developers)
"Developers in Western Australia are planning to bulldoze an endangered banskia ecosystem to build some overpriced homes. >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/feb/23/cockatoos-everyone-loves-cockatoos-except-property-developers

Image: First Dog on the Moon >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/feb/23/cockatoos-everyone-loves-cockatoos-except-property-developers
#Cockatoos #birds #bulldoze #EndangeredSpecies #biodiversity #sprawl

Cockatoos! Everyone loves cockatoos… except property developers apparently
Screeching sulphur-crests? Adorable.
Carnaby's & Baudin's blacks doing their thing in banksia heaven? Iconic.
But WA devs: 'Hold my bulldozer – these overpriced McMansions won't build themselves!'
Endangered woodland? What woodland?
Save our black cockies & their banksia home before it's all concrete & regrets.

#Cockatoos #NoMoreBulldozers #WABiodiversity #Urbanisation #Developers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/feb/23/cockatoos-everyone-loves-cockatoos-except-property-developers

Australian biodiversity and imperial obsequiousness

In a nutshell:
#biodiversity #mining #JarrahForest #LandClearing #UnlawfulClearing #EPBCAct #EPBCActExemptions #cockatoos #EndangeredSpecies
#Australia #CriticalMinerals #ImperialObsequiousness #SubimperialEnforcer #ExemptionPower #NationalInterest #extractivism #zeitgeist

"The Australian government’s decision to allow the US mining giant Alcoa to continue clearing swathes of Western Australian jarrah forest despite past illegal clearing practices was made in part due to a critical minerals deal reached between Australia and the Trump administration last year, a new document shows."

"...The government has prioritised corporate interests and foreign defence interests above the jarrah forests, the endangered species that rely on the forests and Perth’s drinking water – showing just how wrong their priorities are.”

“In the twisted logic of Australia in the Trump age, the national interest lies not in honouring and protecting the beauty and richness of our natural heritage, but in sacrificing it to foreign mining companies.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/21/australia-us-minerals-underpinned-decision-to-allow-alcoa-to-keep-clearing-wa-forest-document-reveals