We went to the #Hobart chicken show! Brace yourself for a thread of unbelievable poultry like this red faced feather duster This black leghorn has a nifty inbuilt umbrella

🚨New Research!
Do nest boxes breed the target species or do they just help its competitors?
We looked at this question for swift #parrots to see if nest boxes are a good long term conservation strategy.
Read it here👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re…

A quick thread (1/10) (2/10) Tree hollows suitable for swift parrots are extremely rare (and are becoming rarer because of logging).

Nest boxes are a popular conservation option to compensate for rare hollows.

But swift parrots compete with 2 birds for hollows and boxes: tree martins and starlings

Thread 1/n: Even though the world is topsy-turvy, the annual rare breed chicken show happened in #Hobart today - I am your willing correspondent 2/n - Meet the rose comb- he’s got a mess going on upstairs and he’s not sorry about it