gus11
Active Member
This past few days Moloch was able to drop in and we had some planned adventures to find some of the more hard to see geckoes of North Queensland. as well as anything else we could find.
It couldnt have started any better than a trip up to find Phyllurus gulbaru.
any find them we did, we found 10 individuals in total, some gravid.
we also managed some other herps, saproscincus basiliskus, eulamprus brachyosoma
small eyed snakes
pink tongue skinks one of which was unbanded
and litoria xanthomera, which you may notice something strange about.
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From here it was a move south to the mackay region where 4 endemic leaf tails are known to occur. P. nepthys, P. ossa, P. isis and P. championae.
we looked for 3 of these and came across 2 P. nepthys and P. ossa.
P. ossa was a new one for me and was harder to find than the other species. we only managed to find 3 individuals
during the night we also spotted odeura monolis
and eulamprus amplus
and this funky beetle, longhorn boorer, a ceranbycid
on the way home we managed this interesting pink tongue skink, anyone notice why it is interesting???
from here it was off to find a rare frog and look for other endemic skinks, the skinks evaded us but we were able to find the eungella day frog...taudactylus eungellensis i think its called
not all skinks evaded us and carlia rhomboidalis were common
other interesting things seen were this golden orb spider eating a cicada
and a grey goshawk that managed to grab a bird, sorry bout the quality
from here it was our first unsucessful night only finding a gehyra and no leaf tails. but our next morning found plenty more skinks many carlia rhomboidalis and even more egernia freri
and what may be eulamprus martini
in the surrounding caves we found what i think to be a eastern free tailed bat, though i'm waiting for an actual id from the bat lab at uni.
during the walk we noticed the hundreds of red tailed black cockatoos that were being harassed by a grey goshawk
.
tonight were off to look for P. amnicola will undoubtedly find other things such as lampropholis mirabilis and hopefully more.
Moloch may provide a post on his trip, but thats up to him, and if he does it will be something everyone should look foward to.
Gus
It couldnt have started any better than a trip up to find Phyllurus gulbaru.
any find them we did, we found 10 individuals in total, some gravid.
we also managed some other herps, saproscincus basiliskus, eulamprus brachyosoma
small eyed snakes
pink tongue skinks one of which was unbanded
and litoria xanthomera, which you may notice something strange about.
From here it was a move south to the mackay region where 4 endemic leaf tails are known to occur. P. nepthys, P. ossa, P. isis and P. championae.
we looked for 3 of these and came across 2 P. nepthys and P. ossa.
P. ossa was a new one for me and was harder to find than the other species. we only managed to find 3 individuals
during the night we also spotted odeura monolis
and eulamprus amplus
and this funky beetle, longhorn boorer, a ceranbycid
on the way home we managed this interesting pink tongue skink, anyone notice why it is interesting???
from here it was off to find a rare frog and look for other endemic skinks, the skinks evaded us but we were able to find the eungella day frog...taudactylus eungellensis i think its called
not all skinks evaded us and carlia rhomboidalis were common
other interesting things seen were this golden orb spider eating a cicada
and a grey goshawk that managed to grab a bird, sorry bout the quality
from here it was our first unsucessful night only finding a gehyra and no leaf tails. but our next morning found plenty more skinks many carlia rhomboidalis and even more egernia freri
and what may be eulamprus martini
in the surrounding caves we found what i think to be a eastern free tailed bat, though i'm waiting for an actual id from the bat lab at uni.
during the walk we noticed the hundreds of red tailed black cockatoos that were being harassed by a grey goshawk
tonight were off to look for P. amnicola will undoubtedly find other things such as lampropholis mirabilis and hopefully more.
Moloch may provide a post on his trip, but thats up to him, and if he does it will be something everyone should look foward to.
Gus
