@CMacColl

PhD researcher at UniQLD in the @RaresGroup l Researching Australia's rarest bird of prey I Tweeting about 🦅🦉 & science I #RaptorResearch #Conservation

 Toowoomba, Queensland
raresgroup.com.au/
Joined December 2011
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McClure et al. (2023) Conserving the evolutionary history of birds @ConBiology doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14141 | @CJWMcClure @igorberkunsky @EvanBuechley @peregrinefund @SteffOpp @brols @_LJSutton @rikkigumbs @EDGEofExistence | #ornithology
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There is a crisis unfolding for California Condors in Arizona. We're going to need a lot of help. Illustration by @BW_Robinson peregrinefund.org/condor-cri…
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The Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagle – Australia's largest eagle – is #Endangered. Many human activities appear to threaten our iconic raptor. How to tell if the various major efforts to minimise impacts are adequate to enable its recovery? #Tasmania #CitSciMonth 📷Keith Martin-Smith
Side view of soaring adult (very dark brown) wedge-tailed eagle against the sky

ALT Side view of soaring adult (very dark brown) wedge-tailed eagle against the sky

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Everyone: Raptors have great eyesight! Me:
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The largest #Eagle in #Australia today is the Wedge-tailed eagle; but fifty thousand years ago, a much larger #fossil species flew the skies. Introducing Dynatoaetus gaffae, the largest Australian eagle that ever lived. Read the paper at the link below: link.springer.com/article/10…
Comparison of the tarsometatarsus (foot bone) of Dynatoaetus and a Wedge-tail eagle, with estimated scaled silhouettes of the live animals above.

ALT Comparison of the tarsometatarsus (foot bone) of Dynatoaetus and a Wedge-tail eagle, with estimated scaled silhouettes of the live animals above.

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UQ News@UQ_News2 Mar 2023
What environmental factors have contributed to the red goshawk’s rapid decline in numbers? #UQ researchers @cyclonewatson and @CMacColl discuss via @ausgeo: bit.ly/3mlbhyD @uqscience 📸: Patrick Webster
A red goshawk with it's red and brown speckled wings spread wide, soaring in front of a tree while another bird looks on.

ALT A red goshawk with it's red and brown speckled wings spread wide, soaring in front of a tree while another bird looks on.

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The red goshawk once ruled the skies, but now this almighty raptor has become our nation's rarest bird of prey. It's nationally listed as vulnerable, but as @cmaccoll + colleagues (@UQ_News) write, it requires "urgent uplisting to endangered". bit.ly/3KEVlBu
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Clare Peddie@ClarePeddie26 Feb 2023
Have you seen The Red? Australia's red goshawk once ruled the skies. But now this almighty raptor has become our nation's rarest bird of prey. @cmaccoll @UQscience writes @ConversationEDU about the first comprehensive population assessment. theconversation.com/australi…

Australia’s red goshawk is disappearing. How can we save our rarest bird of prey from extinction?

The first comprehensive population assessment of the raptor affectionately known as The Red reveals a species in trouble. Australia’s rarest bird of prey needs our help.

theconversation.com
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Rapid and recent range collapse of Australia’s Red Goshawk tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… #ornithology #raptors
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Rohan Fisher@RohanFisher416 Jan 2023
An animation of fires across the far north QLD in 2022. Most of the smaller fires before August are fine-scale mitigation burns. Not a bad outcome, a result of a lot of hard work on the Cape, indigenous and non-indigenous land managers working together. @CapeYorkNRM @CDUni
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sara ryding@zuuletc29 Nov 2022
Beautiful summary of my talk by Maggie!! 😄🦅🥚
Dr Maggie J Watson / @terngirl.bsky.social@terngirl29 Nov 2022
Well that’s un-egg-spected! #ESASCBO2022 @zuuletc
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RARES Group@RaresGroup2 Aug 2022
PhD opportunity in the RARES Group working on the most evolutionary distinct and globally endangered (EDGE) bird in the world, the plains wanderer! A thread: edgeofexistence.org/species/…
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RARES Group@RaresGroup14 Jul 2022
New paper out by the RARES team! Critically important work to better manage the threat of feral cat predation on one of Australia's most endangered birds, the Night Parrot #conservation #threatenedspecies #nightparrot publish.csiro.au/WR/WR21123
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RARES Group@RaresGroup27 May 2022
Watch this fun 3 minute skit our fearless leader @cyclonewatson shot for the ABC program Behind The News discussing the Threatened Species app abc.net.au/btn/classroom/thr…

Threatened Species App - Behind The News

Researchers have developed an app which will show Aussies which at-risk animals live near them.

abc.net.au
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CO2_Earth
@CO2_earth16 May 2022
🏵️🏵️  HIGHEST-EVER WEEKLY #CO2 LEVEL WITH HUMANS ON EARTH  🏵️🏵️ 📈 421.13 ppm #CO2 in the atmosphere in the 19th week of 2022 📈 Up from 418.34 a year ago 📈 @NOAA Mauna Loa data: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/wee… 🌍 Track CO2.Earth records: co2.earth/co2-records 🌍
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Another modeling masterpiece by @brols in @IBIS_journal | Flight characteristics forecast entry by eagles into rotor-swept zones of wind turbines | illustrations by @BW_Robinson | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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IPCC
@IPCC_CH4 Apr 2022
"We need to take action now or 1.5ºC will become out of reach, it will be physically impossible to get there." – #IPCC Working Group III Co-Chair Jim Skea at today’s press conference for the release of the latest #IPCC #ClimateReport on the mitigation of #climatechange.
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Another coal mine approved in #Australia by environment minister @sussanley (Must be really liberating not to have a duty of care towards future generations to worry about 😩)
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Distribution of Black-breasted Button-quail in the Great Sandy Region, Queensland and associations with vegetation communities tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1… #Ornithology #conservation
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sara ryding@zuuletc9 Feb 2022
Another 3D model for my fellow #AOC2022 attendants! This time of a red goshawk egg, collected in 1989. viewshape.com/shapes/1be86fd…
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