Wnat to know what is in your area?

[Paliadon]

The EPA Queensland website, has a great facility which I have just come across. It is a page where you can enter you information of where you live, what animals you want included on that list and how far around your locale you want the species list to cover. I have just done it and it is great.

It is awesome to find out what reptiles and other herps actually live in your area.

Try it now: http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/nature_con...ldlife_online/

Oh, it is very accurate as well so it is well worth a look. Maybe if there is enough interest in this, it could become a sticky? Just a thought.

Hopefully it includes all states not just Queensland. Give it a shot and let us know if it is. It is definitely available for Queensland.

Cheers

Kris

[hornet]

unfortunatly many areas they dont have the data for.

[Paliadon]

Oh, I forgot, you need your Longitude and Latitude (easy to get off google earth or a web search). And I also choose to generate a list for a specific point (but this allows you to state an area) I usually do 5kms. Have fun.

Also, here is the blurb from the epa.qld website:

Wildlife Online

About Wildlife Online

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) wildlife database contains recorded wildlife sightings and listings of plants, fungi, protists, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater fish, marine cartilaginous fish and butterflies in Queensland.


This website enables you to access a list of wildlife that the EPA has recorded for areas such as national parks, State forests and shires, or areas defined by the user. The information is in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) or tab delimited text file and can be emailed to a valid address. Wildlife lists for shires, basins and NRM body regions can be viewed online via the WetlandInfo’s Wetland Information Summary Search.


The wildlife list generated will contain the kingdom name, class name, family name, scientific name, common name, flag for introduced species, status under the Nature Conservation Act 1992, status under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the number of records for the record category selected and the number of specimens for each species recorded in the nominated area.


Information about your wildlife search request is collected to process this transaction. Wildlife search requests are logged for quality assurance and product enhancement purposes only.


The information used to produce the wildlife lists is based on collated species lists and wildlife records acquired by the EPA through a range of sources including specimen collections, research and monitoring programs, inventory programs including extension activities, literature records, wildlife permit returns and community wildlife recording programs. As the EPA is still in the process of collating and vetting wildlife data, it is possible the information given is not complete. The absence of a species from the list does not mean that it does not occur there, but only that records are not held within the EPA wildlife database.


Any feedback on the Wildlife Online website or the wildlife lists should be emailed to: Wildlife.Online@epa.qld.gov.au.

[hornet]

you dont need the exact location, you can also select state forests or nationalparks

[Paliadon]

Originally Posted by hornet

you dont need the exact location, you can also select state forests or nationalparks

That is correct, but it is a lot easier if you do.

[lazybuddha]

shane park in blacktown looks like an alright place, Jacky's beardies, wood geckos red bellies and browns, and snake neck turtles. theres alot more in blacktown than i thought there would be

[noni]

yeah i just looked up blacktown; i went to nurragingy today to walk the dog and heard heaps of frogs in the wetland area which is full after all the rain

[Paliadon]

Nice. There are heaps of species here where I live. It is very interesting what species are actually around that you didn't even know about.