Radar
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hey all, I've just spent a few days on Mount Zero and Taravale stations owned and run by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (DONATE TODAY!!!!) and figured Id share a few pics.
The property (both adjacent stations) is located on the western side of the paluma range in NQLD, and supports a large variety of 'threatened' and 'of concern' vegetation types, as well as the associated fauna. Of note is the large amount of Tall open wet sclerophyll forest/woodland that, although common in the southern states, is pretty rare up here and usually only occures in a thin band on the western side of rainforested mountain ranges in the rain shadow.
We did a bit of a census of everything from mistnetting birds to active reptile searches, frogging every night till 11:30pm and dawn choruses every morning from 5am till 7am. We also set up traplines consisting of cage traps, elliot traps and funnel traps.These shots are just a fraction of what we got, as we only took photo's of a small number of individuals to reduce stress
Captured but not photographed includes a blackheaded python (which was hit by passing car as we were setting up to take some shots :evil::evil:, those people are lucky it wasnt a hunting trip or they would have been dodging 000 Buckshot), brown treesnake, RBB, a smaller small eyed snake than that in the album, various scorps (which Im going back to do a species survey on in a few months, there were some very interesting finds...), a large number of birds, rufous bettong, bushrats, yellow footed melomies, etc, etc. Unfortunatly no quolls or northen bettongs, which is what we really hoped to find.
Im putting up a link to save me the hours of resizing and re-uploading these shots.
http://jcuedu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=16050&id=660496462
Some of these shots have got common/scientific names, some have nothing, as my field notebook is still at uni, along with a bit of other stuff. Feel free to identify anything, I'll let you know if you're right or not :lol: when I get back my notebook (its full of key steps from about 10 hours keying out random stuff). There's also plenty of shots of my friends, please refrain from trying to give them scientific names :lol:.
The property (both adjacent stations) is located on the western side of the paluma range in NQLD, and supports a large variety of 'threatened' and 'of concern' vegetation types, as well as the associated fauna. Of note is the large amount of Tall open wet sclerophyll forest/woodland that, although common in the southern states, is pretty rare up here and usually only occures in a thin band on the western side of rainforested mountain ranges in the rain shadow.
We did a bit of a census of everything from mistnetting birds to active reptile searches, frogging every night till 11:30pm and dawn choruses every morning from 5am till 7am. We also set up traplines consisting of cage traps, elliot traps and funnel traps.These shots are just a fraction of what we got, as we only took photo's of a small number of individuals to reduce stress
Captured but not photographed includes a blackheaded python (which was hit by passing car as we were setting up to take some shots :evil::evil:, those people are lucky it wasnt a hunting trip or they would have been dodging 000 Buckshot), brown treesnake, RBB, a smaller small eyed snake than that in the album, various scorps (which Im going back to do a species survey on in a few months, there were some very interesting finds...), a large number of birds, rufous bettong, bushrats, yellow footed melomies, etc, etc. Unfortunatly no quolls or northen bettongs, which is what we really hoped to find.
Im putting up a link to save me the hours of resizing and re-uploading these shots.
http://jcuedu.facebook.com/album.php?aid=16050&id=660496462
Some of these shots have got common/scientific names, some have nothing, as my field notebook is still at uni, along with a bit of other stuff. Feel free to identify anything, I'll let you know if you're right or not :lol: when I get back my notebook (its full of key steps from about 10 hours keying out random stuff). There's also plenty of shots of my friends, please refrain from trying to give them scientific names :lol:.
