"Forensic testing of fox scats found in Tasmania has revealed DNA from five different foxes. The University of Western Australia has analysed 30 scats, but...
Andrew Taylor
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Mar 15, 2009 8:39 pm
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Last week-end we spent a few days at the light house cottages at Green Cape in Ben Boyd National Park. Green Cape is a magnificently scenic spot halfway...
Kathy and John (home)
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Apr 1, 2009 9:39 am
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I just uploaded a report from Dion Hobcraft who spent 3 weeks in Queensland last winter. He was concentrating on mammals for once, and saw 70 species! The...
Hi All, I see foxes often enough that I don't usually think much of encounters. Yesterday whilst running a field trip for university students on the Mornington...
Hi all, Over the easter holiday I managed an evening spotlighting near the Heathcote-Graytown National Park (central Victoria). I was attempting to locate some...
Hi everyone, We are looking for volunteers for four field trips scheduled for this year (each one roughly two weeks) that will be going to various parts of Qld...
Hi, We have just had 10 days in Broome, primarily to see the waders in breeding plumage, but also at all other things. We were a little surprised at how few a...
Kathy and John (home)
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Apr 24, 2009 11:09 am
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G'day all, put my moth light out last night, then looked up to see this little bat hanging from a brick joint. It was just a little over 50 mm body length. I...
Thanks very much Storm and John, I'm in Maffra, Victoria by the way. The little fellow/lady must have roosted there during the day, and when I switched the...
G'day, A friend of mine recently showed me what looked like masticated pellets of Melaleuca bark, 2x4 centimetres. The site is near Tinaroo Dam on the Atherton...
Greetings, Is anyone of you currently working on sugar gliders and wouldn't mind a film crew looking over your shoulder. Regards, Alan Gillanders Alan's...
In May there were 7 reliable, or very plausible, reports of Echidnas in the City of Bayside (Beaumaris to Brighton on the east of Port Phillip Bay). Despite my...
Hi Michael They are still fairly regular in the Dandenong Creek and Yarra River valleys, and from there odd ones go 'suburban'! My guess is that your bayside...
Gday. My name is Hugh McGregor. This is my first post on the forum. Im heading down to Tasmania in a few days for some mammal twitching. I hope to collect and...
Hi Hugh I suspect the legal answer to both questions (collecting skulls, bringing them back to 'Australia') is no! You could check with the relevant ...
Hi everyone, We are urgently looking for one or two volunteers for a field trip scheduled for 4th-19/20th of August, to two properties SW of Longreach. The...
DearĀ members, I meant to send this a little earlier, I don't know if anyone feels they can help This is an email sent to me which I think others should see,...
Hi everyone, We are urgently looking for volunteers for two field trips scheduled for ~13th-30th of October (NE of Alice Springs) and ~9th-18th November (lower...
Hello everyone I am just curious, does anyone have any tips for detecting Feathertail Gliders? I heard a story ages ago of some old hands in Victoria who got...
Hi Hugh Here's an extract from my website that might help ... I helped with another fauna survey in the South East Forest National Park further inland and not...
I'll second that. Falling leaves, particularly those that change direction in windless conditions, often turn out to be parachuting Feathertail Gliders. ...
What I probably neglected to add is that long hours in the bush at night is they key! I've had most success detecting Feathertail Gliders in surveys in tall...
Dear everyone, Does anybody have reliable gps locations (with dates preferably) for spectacled hare wallabies and northern nailtail wallabies that they would...
Greetings, does anyone know of a person or company for spotlighting or other mammal focused tours out of Byron Bay. I have some customers who are now down that...
Gday everyone Just have a question regarding when you can trust a Squirrel Glider/Sugar Glider ID. I am currently conducting a survey of the distribution of...
Dear everyone, A fabulous opportunity exists for a suitably qualified PhD student. The project is to establish what are the population level determinants of...