Trip Report: Wet Tropics, July 2017
This is the trip report of my 2 mammal watching days in the Wet Tropics, Queensland.
Trip report PDF: Mammal watching Atherton 2017
SPECIES LIST:
Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
Northern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus)
Long-nosed Bandicoot (Permeles nasuta)
*Musky Rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus)
Agile Wallaby (Notamacropus agilis)
*Mareeba Rock-wallaby (Petrogale Mareeba)
Red-legged Pademelon (Thylogale stigmatica)
Spectacled Flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus)
Little Red Flying-fox (Pteropus scapulatus)
Fawn-footed Melomys (Melomys cervinipes)
(* indicates endemic)
It’s not the best list but I’m hoping to get back there in the future for a more thorough mammal watching session.
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Jon Hall
Thanks Antoni. Is this your first report? Lots of good info here on different sites. By the way, I suspect at least some of the bats around the streelights were Little Northern Freetails (Mormopterus loriae .. or whatever they are called these day).