Showing posts with label Pteropus conspicillatus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pteropus conspicillatus. Show all posts

Sunday, November 26, 2017

SPECTACLED FLYING FOX

Photographed in Cairns CBD, Queensland, November 2017
80              SPECTACLED FLYING-FOX                  Pteropus conspicillatus

AUSTRALIA          80         

Usually found in single species roosts.Feeds mostly on rainforest fruits, some euclypt nectar and pollen; territorial and aggressive at food sources. Confined to coastal Queenslandfrom around Tully to tip of Cape York; camps tall rainforests, gallery forest, mangroves, paperbark forests. Threatened by habitat destruction and fruit growers.





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