Marine
Tagging Sea Turtles off the Northern Rivers
A week with the volunteers turning night-time beach walks into one of the longest-running turtle datasets in the country.
The Quiet Return of the Eastern Quoll to the Mainland
For sixty years the eastern quoll was a Tasmanian story. In the dappled understorey of Booderee, a small population is rebuilding what foxes erased — and the keepers tracking them are rewriting what we know about resilience.
Photography & words from a long winter spent waiting for movement at dusk.
Reptiles
What the Bearded Dragon Remembers
Notes from a small hatchery where the bearded dragon is teaching a different generation of reptile keepers the long view of patience.
Conservation
Three Hours Above the Mountain Pygmy-Possum
Climate, snow, and a creature that has waited longer than the alpine itself. A short field diary from a hide above 1,700 metres.
From the Editors
"We write slowly because the bush moves slowly. Field Notes is offline-first, ad-free, and unmoved by the news cycle."
— Field Notes, Issue 14