Jon Sullivan

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Kia ora! I'm a #nature nut, addict of #iNaturalist NZ — Mātaki Taiao, and an #ecologist at #LincolnUniversity in #Aotearoa-#NewZealand.

I spend an inordinate amount of my time counting nature to watch what's changing (see https://wildcounts.org/).

#TwitterMigration #NZTwits #ecology #EcologicalMonitoring #NaturalHistory #iNaturalistNZ #iNaturalist #wildcounts #RStats #Biodiversity

Born when there was 326 ppm carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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2025-09-14 06:13:58 UTC

How to unexpectedly acquire a chicken in 6 easy steps:
1) Go to a remote forest reserve in the hills where you've never seen a chicken before. Find a chicken waiting for you there.
2) Offer the chicken food. (I had an old, unopened muesli bar in my backpack that did the trick.)
3) Feed the chicken some of the food by the car.
4) Slowly open the car door, and put some of the food inside the car. Provide a step up into the car for the chicken. (If the chicken is suspicious of the backpack you first use as a step, swap that out for something the chicken recognises, like a nearby brick.)
5) Wait patiently for the chicken to hop up into the car.
6) Close the car door. Drive home with the chicken.
😄
#chickens #NZ #ChickenRescue #ChristchurchPortHills #birds
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2025-06-04 07:50:17 UTC

Bugger. I’m still faintly positive.
Remember to test, mask, and isolate. The old rules still work.
I first tested positive at the end of last Thursday when my nose started running. I’ve been masked and isolating from my family for six days now, and they’re still fine.
Almost there.
#COVID19
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2025-02-14 10:19:21 UTC

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That looks like a fascinating book. I hadn’t realised that Medieval hedge maintenance was so involved.
“The bent part of the hawthorn is called a plasher, the skill known as plashing or pleaching.”

2024-11-29 00:01:54 UTC

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Hmm. There are lots of choices. If I remember, I'll look in my native garden books at home for inspiration.
In the meantime, as an unhelpful tangent, have you considered geese? 😄 One good way to maintain a dominance of native plants in turfs, at least in wetter areas, is grazing by geese.
Here's a 2013 article from the NZ Journal of Ecology on how important Canada geese are now for NZ wetlands since our native geese are extinct.
https://newzealandecology.org/nzje/3089.pdf