Know Your Wildlife!

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Know Your Wildlife

How well do you know the local wildlife?  You are invited to meet the Wildlife Identification Challenge!

CAN you identify these bats using the MCCG Digital Field Guides?

 

ANSWER:

The Grey-headed Flying Fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) and Little Red Flying-fox (Pteropus scapulatus) are native only to Australia, but the range of the Black Flying-fox (Pteropus alecto) extends to Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia.

  1. Black Flying-fox (Pteropus alecto) – photo Rebecca Bain
  2. Little Red Flying-fox (Pteropus scapulatus) – photo Rebecca Bain
  3. Grey-headed Flying Fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) – photo Rebecca Bain

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