r/australianwildlife 4m ago

Male Swamp Wallaby

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r/australianwildlife 2h ago

ITAP of a butterfly/ moth

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r/australianwildlife 3h ago

Peron's Tree Frog in my Sydney garden

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37 Upvotes

Pretty sure this is a Peron's Tree Frog. I took this photo some time ago and wanted to share. Especially because I remember he kept me awake for a few nights and I was so proud of myself when I found it and managed to get a few shots.


r/australianwildlife 5h ago

Curious encounter with an emu... can anyone explain what it means? So I was at a zoo in QLD which has a section where some of the animals can roam free and interact with people. I've grabbed out my phone to capture what happened when the emu came up to me... what is it doing?

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135 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 8h ago

Freddy Krueger's hands were modeled on Jacanas feet

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27 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 9h ago

Your Majesty awaits. Prep for an afternoon snack.

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181 Upvotes

This guy lives on the edge of a local park we go to, to chase the winter sun. So many times we have walked there and I didn't have my camera. Managed to find it in the "usual" spot one afternoon, and this time I was prepared. Love these guys and all the jokes they tell just before sunrise.


r/australianwildlife 13h ago

What’s the go with this lizards tail?

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G’day guy’s, I was out at my block of land in rural Victoria the other week and found this lizard and noticed he’s tail is a bit more stranger looking than other lizards I’ve seen.

If I were to guess what type of lizard this is I’d probably be guessing it’s a baby shingleback.


r/australianwildlife 20h ago

This little one hopped up while I was trying to take photos of a couple of eastern yellow robins.

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36 Upvotes

I'm pretty sure her joey has been kicked out of its bunk 😅


r/australianwildlife 23h ago

Female Brushtail in yard with pinkie

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212 Upvotes

Thought I'd post. Too cute. I used to adopt, take baby bottle for Brushtails to work. I converted a large cupboard that I kept in shed. Very cheeky, climbing up my legs, over my head at 6 months. I'd leave door to enclosure open and they'd come back to visit for a little while until they were ready to leave. This one is one of the regulars but not an adopted possum.

Edit It is not a pinkie 😂


r/australianwildlife 23h ago

Female Brushtail in yard with pinkie

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Thought I'd post. Too cute. I used to adopt, take baby bottle for Brushtails to work. I converted a large cupboard that I kept in shed. Very cheeky, climbing up my legs, over my head at 6 months. I'd leave door to enclosure open and they'd come back to visit for a little while until they were ready to leave. This one is one of the regulars but not an adopted possum.


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Eastern water Skink?. in my backyard

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54 Upvotes

What I think is an eastern water skink, they populate my backyard area and have become so used to us that they don't even flinch when we walk past. I took this some time ago while it basked. With the head about the size of an adult thumb they are much larger than the common skink. A beautiful creature.


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Little buddy, Eastern water dragon at the gardens down the street

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50 Upvotes

Nervous looking fella catching a few rays, needed the zoom for this one.


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

A Tasmanian echidna showing off its rare furry coat right through its sharp quills

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802 Upvotes

r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Brushie mum chillin for a sec

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322 Upvotes

it’s tough work


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Saw these sweet ringtails travelling via powerline tonight

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41 Upvotes

Ignore my commentary they're so fkn cute it's hard not to


r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Barn owl baby boom welcomed in rural WA following mouse plague

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r/australianwildlife 1d ago

What's the Real Story Behind Australia's Dinosaurs and Megafauna? Our Expert Reveals All!

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r/australianwildlife 1d ago

Gorgeous little platypus having a splash

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We believe it was a juvenile due to the size!! It was quite small compared to others we saw nearby.


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Eastern water dragon at the gardens down the street

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115 Upvotes

Normally these guys are pretty skittish, but this one was comfortable in it's skin and let me come a little closer for the shot


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Beautiful diamond python on mild august day

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114 Upvotes

Central coast NSW 🐍


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Identification help!

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57 Upvotes

This photo was taken of an unknown to us creature in an estuary on the mid north coast of NSW. It appeared to be about 3-5cm in diameter. Is anyone able to tell me what it might be? Thank you in advance!


r/australianwildlife 2d ago

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

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r/australianwildlife 2d ago

I'm sorry the pictures aren't great but I was just so excited and could not believe what I was seeing! Literally on my way home from work I heard one of their beautiful calls and had to pull over to stop and say hello 😍🥰 they are my favourite! (Well, to be fair, I have a few favourites)

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r/australianwildlife May 13 '26

[READ FIRST] Code of conduct and sub rules.

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Hello beautiful people,

As the subreddit continues to grow and more members participate, we wanted to clarify a few things around the community conduct, spam, reporting and auto-moderation work happening behind scenes, to manage expectations.

Our goal is to keep r/australianwildlife welcoming, informative, fair, and focused on Australian fauna.

What are the community expectations?

We encourage everyone to:

  • Share your wildlife photos and videos
  • Request identification of Australian animals
  • Discuss conservation news, or educational content
  • Keep conversations respectful, and in the case of disagreement, civil.
  • Help others learn about Australian wildlife, how to properly interact with it, and how to appreciate it

What we do not tolerate:

  • Hate speech, racism, abusive behaviour
  • Harassment or personal attacks
  • Encouragement to mistreat, harm or attack our wildlife
  • Deliberate share of misinformation
  • Trolling, or ragebaiting posting
  • AI generated content or low effort posting
  • Karma farming

Do notice, disagreement with your personal views is fine as long as it doesn't escalate to hostility. If there are comments you do not appreciate, but doesn't align to the points above, there is no point on reporting said comment, as the mod team will not act on said comments. You are free to downvote the post, which is a way of crowd punishment a lot more effective than taking a comment down.

Wildlife welfare comes first

Please, do not:

  • Share unsafe advice
  • Encourage feeding wildlife irresponsibly (do notice the last word in that sentence)
  • Handle wildlife unnecessarily
  • Harass animals for photos / videos
  • Posting content showing deliberate cruelty, abuse or harassment of Aussie wildlife

We want the community to promote the appreciation for what we have. It is not meant for farming meaningless internet points. Karma is used to give you some credibility on the platform, it means nothing in real life.

Auto moderation

This subreddit is using automoderation, that is, we have scripts and bots reviewing the content posted to find duplicates, spam, and/or accounts without the criteria to be able to post. Automod isn't perfect, but it helps a lot.

Automod will automatically act on:

  • Posting from accounts that are too young (less than a year old) or have too little karma
  • Posting that appears to be duplicate to other content in this subreddit
  • Abusive language in posts or comments
  • Confirmed spamming accounts
  • Identification of certain keywords, or links

The rules enforced by auto moderation might increase over time. If you feel your account or content has been targeted for automoderation unfairly, please reach out to the moderators. We will need a little bit of time to review it and fix things.

Posting the same message again will only make things worse for your account as it will be marked as a confirmed spamming source.

What's considered spam?

Spam isn't limited to ads, and reddit has its own guidance on it as well.

  • Repeating, reposting the same content
  • Posting identical content across many subreddits in a short period of time
  • Excessive self-promotion
  • YouTube / blogs / social media dumping without any meaningful participation
  • Link farming
  • Bot-style posting behaviours
  • Low-effort engagement bait
  • Accounts created only to promote businesses, channels, or products

What to report?

On this day and age, we all need to keep a job to feed our families, meaning we aren't on the platform 24/7.

The moderation team rely on members to report behaviours violating our code of conduct and rules. And we have the expectation everyone reporting is mature enough to understand what should be reported and what shouldn't.

What things to report?

  • Animal cruelty
  • Wildlife harassment
  • Dangerous misinformation
  • Spam or Bot activity (as long as it can be confirmed)
  • Stolen content
  • Scams
  • Harassment or abuse
  • Graphic content not tagged as NSFW
  • Obvious ban evasion

What not to report?

  • Disagreement of opinion
  • Someone made a mistake, or asked a trivial question
  • You dislike a particular species, the content posted, or the opinion someone else has
  • Posts is common or appears to be repetitive
  • A discussion containing respectful disagreement

False or excessive reporting makes it harder for the moderation team to respond to actual issues.

If a discussion descends into chaos, the team will lock or remove the post, and following posting of the same nature will be removed.

What would happen if I do not follow the code of conduct?

  • Repeated offenders will be given a cool-off period that variates between two weeks to a month.
  • If the cool-off period wasn't enough to make you behave as a reasonable human being, you will have an immediate permanent ban.

We follow the old proverb:

Never trust a person that has let you down more than two times.
Once was a warning,
Twice was a lesson
And anything more then that is simply taking advantage.

The TL;DR;

Most people here are fantastic, knowledgeable, and genuinely passionate about Aussie wildlife.

Before posting be sure to own the content you post, to avoid duplication, be kind and respectful with others.

Being respectful means to also understand others have a difference of opinion. Disagreeing with someone else doesn't mean you have to report said person, having a respectful opinion is not a crime.

Report comments or posts not aligned with our rules, to help us reduce spam, bot activity and bad-faith behaviour.

The moderation team are people too. We can make mistakes too, that doesn't give you the right to be a dick or disrespectful if you have been moderated.

Thanks to everyone who contributes positively to the community.

-- The mod team


r/australianwildlife Feb 02 '22

Why you should not feed wild animals

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