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.

NORTHERN BROWN BANDICOOT

79               NORTHERN BROWN BANDICOOT               Isoondon macrourus

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS                   79

Also known as Brindled Bandicoot. Common in wet tropical and subtropical forest, woodland, scrub, grassland and gardens across n. and e, Australia from n. Kimberley (WA) to Hawkesbury River (NSW). Mostly nocturnal, solitary, territorial and aggressive. Omnivorous, digs in topsoil for anthropoids, tubers, fruits and seeds.

BLACK-STRIPED WALLABY

Photographed near Marlborough, Queensland, November 2017

78                BLACK-STRIPED WALLABY                  Macropus dorsalis

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS                 78

Range from Townsville (Q) to Narrabri (NSW), in NSW only west of ranged its numbers here are decreasing, NSW population classified as endangered. Nocturnal, grazer, shy.

RED DEER

Photographed at Borumba Dam near Imbril, Queensland, November 2017

77              RED DEER              Cervus elaphus

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS              77

 Introduced species, largest of deer in Australia. Populations found in Grampians NP, w. Victoria, and in headwaters of Mary and Brisbane Rivers, Queensland; locally common. opportunistic herbivores, graze and browses on wide range of foliage and bark of plants and lichen and fungi. Gregarious in small single-sex herds for much of year.     

WHIPTAIL WALLABY

Photographed on the road to O'Reilly's Guesthouse, Leamington National Park, Queensland, November 2017

76             WHIPTAIL WALLABY               Macropus parryi    

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS                 76

Locally common in open grassy open-forest in hilly areas of coastal eastern Australia from s. of Cooktown (Q) to near Grafton (NSW). Gregarious, in social group with dominance hierarchy amongst males; up to 50 not uncommon. Active any time day or night, grazes ferns, grasses and herbs.

SHORT-EARED BRUSHTAIL POSSUM

Photographed near O'Reilly's Guesthouse, Lamington National Park, Queensland, November 2017

75                SHORT-EARED BRUSHTAIL POSSUM             Trichosurus caninus

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS             75

Common in cool-temperature wet forest and subtropical rainforest with luxuriant understory of non-sclerophyllous shrubs and ferns throughout ranges and coastal plains from inland of Gladstone(Q) to about Newcastle (NSW).

SOUTHERN GREATER GLIDER

Photographed at Sheepstation Conservation Reserve, Queensland, November 2017

74                SOUTHERN GREATER GLIDER              Petauroides volans

AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS

Locally common in wet, damp sclerophyll forest on ranges and coastal plains near Mossman (Q) to Daylesford (V). Nocturnal, solitary; eats only eucalyptus leaves and buds.

Taken at Dunn's Swamp, NSW, December 2017

Taken at Watagen National Park, December 2020.