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Book Chapter

The current status of bats in Western Australia

By Kyle N. Armstrong

Book: The Biology and Conservation of Australasian Bats

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2011

10.7882/FS.2011.026

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3

.... gigas has provided much relevant information for assessing development proposals, mainly in the Pilbara where plans for iron and gold mines coincide with their habitat. There are several unresolved taxonomic issues in the fauna, and when these are resolved, the tally for the state might increase by up...

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Distribution, status and conservation of pythons in Western Australia

By David J. Pearson

Book: Herpetology in Australia: A Diverse Discipline

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 1993

10.7882/RZSNSW.1993.062

EISBN: 0-9599951-8-8

... were probably the major contributing factors in the Wheatbelt region; however, predation by feral animals and vegetation change due to fire may be significant in other parts of their range. Morelia olivacea barroni occupies restricted habitats in the Pilbara and its populations need to be closely...

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Journal Articles

A significant range extension for the Western Soil-Crevice Skink Proablepharus reginae (Glauert 1960) and an updated reptile species list of Cape Range, Western Australia

Chad Beranek, Stephen Mahony, Shawn Scott

Australian Zoologist (2021) 42 (1): 146–155.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.029

Published: 31 August 2021

..., Diplodactylus capensis, Gehyra capensis, Menetia surda, and Strophurus elderi. Discussion This is the first published record of P. reginae in Cape Range National Park, North West Cape, Western Australia and represents the first record for the species to the west of the Pilbara on the North West Cape peninsula...

View article titled, A significant range extension for the Western Soil-Crevice Skink Proablepharus reginae (Glauert 1960) and an updated reptile species list of Cape Range, Western Australia

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Range extension of Czeblukov’s true sea snake Hydrophis czeblukovi (Elapidae:Hydrophiinae) southwest to Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia

A.M. Davenport, B.R. d’Anastasi, B.M. Fitzpatrick

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (3): 738–751.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.005

Published: 01 March 2022

... and Bickford 2014; Bland et al. 2017). The geographic distribution of H. czeblukovi records overlap significantly with the highly industrialized and heavily fished northwest shelf region of Australia (Pilbara Ports Authority 2020, Udyawer et al. 2021). This is in the context of three other recent range...

View article titled, Range extension of Czeblukov’s true sea snake Hydrophis czeblukovi (Elapidae:Hydrophiinae) southwest to Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia

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A re-appraisal of species diversity within the Australian grasswrens Amytornis (Aves: Maluridae)

Les Christidis, Frank Rheindt, Walter Boles, Janette Norman

Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (4): 429–437.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2013.004

Published: 27 September 2013

..., G.W. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. Check-List of Birds of the World 11 409 464 Mees, G.F. 1961. An annotated catalogue of a collection of bird-skins from West Pilbara, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 44: 97-143. An annotated...

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Island Jewels: the natural history of Western Australia’s islands

Dorian Moro

Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 409.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.032

Published: 30 October 2023

... traverses the islands as groups from the tropical cays and islands off the Kimberley coast, down to the Pilbara islands off the north-west coastline, and southwards off the Shark Bay, mid-west, and southwest coasts, ending at the Recherche Archipelago on the south coast. The book also includes a discussion...

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The breeding biology of the Western Red-tailed Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus escondidus in the wheatbelt of Western Australia

Denis A Saunders

Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 199–219.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.036

Published: 10 November 2023

... on comparative biology of cockatoos (Saunders and Smith 1981; Saunders et al. 1982, 1985; Smith and Saunders 1986). 2023 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 43 (2) 199 Saunders The Western Red-tailed Cockatoo, whose natural distribution is in the more northerly Pilbara, Gascoyne, and Murchison Regions of Western...

View article titled, The breeding biology of the Western Red-tailed Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus escondidus in the wheatbelt of Western Australia

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Avian prey of the Australian Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas (Microchiroptera: Megadermatidae): prey characteristics and damage from predation

Walter Boles

Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 82–91.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1999.009

Published: 17 March 2014

...) June 1999 Pine Creek FRzroy Caves, Figure 1. Distribution of Macroderma gigas, showing localities discussed in this paper from which avian prey remains have been identified: (1) several (1 sites in the Pilbara district of Western Australia (Douglas 1967); (2) Pine Creek area, Northern Territory...

View article titled, Avian prey of the Australian Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas (Microchiroptera: Megadermatidae): prey characteristics and damage from predation

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Conservation detection dog is better than human searcher in finding bilby ( Macrotis lagotis ) scats

Scott A. Thompson, Graham G. Thompson, Philip C. Withers, Emma M. Bennett

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (1): 86–93.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.012

Published: 01 October 2020

... and camaldulensis) planted along two sides of the square. It was Thompson 2008, and had searched at multiple locations almost flat with approximately 80% ground cover of leaves over 10 years as part of EIA assessments in the Pilbara and grasses. Trees immediately adjacent to the boundary of Western Australia...

View article titled, Conservation detection dog is better than human searcher in finding bilby ( Macrotis lagotis ) scats

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A taxonomic review of Australian Greater Long-eared Bats previously known as Nyctophilus timoriensis (Chiroptera:Vespertilionidae) and some associated taxa

H. E. Parnaby

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (1): 39–81.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2009.005

Published: 04 October 2011

... will be presented elsewhere. A trend of increasing body size from the Pilbara region through to western Queensland is illustrated by a plot of CON vs longitude (Fig. 24) and FA shows a similar pattern. However the variation is not a simple size cline, as demonstrated in a plot of GL vs FA (Fig. 25...

View article titled, A taxonomic review of Australian Greater Long-eared Bats previously known as Nyctophilus timoriensis (Chiroptera:Vespertilionidae) and some associated taxa

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The most photographed of thylacines: Mary Roberts' Tyenna male - including a response to Freeman (2005) and a farewell to Laird (1968)

Robert Paddle

Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (4): 459–470.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2008.024

Published: 20 October 2011

..., Sydney. Thylacine Folder Wilson, A. ca1922w. Notes on the Tiger. Unpublished manuscript, Archie Wilson collection, Tasmanian Library, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart. Wright, B.J. 1972. Rock engravings of striped animals: The Pilbara region, Western Australia. Archaeology and Physical...

View article titled, The most photographed of thylacines: Mary Roberts' Tyenna male - including a response to Freeman (2005) and a farewell to Laird (1968)

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A large-scale automated radio telemetry network for monitoring movements of terrestrial wildlife in Australia

Andrea S. Griffin, Culum Brown, Bradley K. Woodworth, Guy-Anthony Ballard, Stuart Blanch ...

Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 379–391.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2019.026

Published: 01 May 2020

... 1991, Law & Lean 1999, Law et al. 2011, 2018, Roberts et al. 2012). Already, Motus technology is being used in Western Australia to track movements of Ghost Bats (Macroderma gigas) and Pilbara Leaf-nosed Bats (Rhinonicteris auranti). Biologic Environmental Survey (httpswww.biologicenv. com.au/) has...

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A call to scale up biodiversity monitoring from idiosyncratic, small-scale programmes to coordinated, comprehensive and continuous monitoring across large scales

Matt W. Hayward, Stephan Chalup, Jamil Khan, Alex Callen, Kaya Klop-Toker ...

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 514–533.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.004

Published: 01 March 2022

... Liasis olivaceus barroni Olive Python (Pilbara subspecies) Reptiles Sound Vision Status 1 VU 1 VU 1 VU 1 VU 1 VU 1 VU 1 VU 1 VU 1 VU 1 VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU VU 528 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 42 (2) 2022 2022 APPENDIX 1 Using technology to monitor biodiversity...

View article titled, A call to scale up biodiversity monitoring from idiosyncratic, small-scale programmes to coordinated, comprehensive and continuous monitoring across large scales

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Aspects of the morphology and reproductive biology of the Australian Earless Dragon Lizard Tympanocryptis tetraporophora

Allen Greer, Sarah Smith

Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 55–70.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1999.007

Published: 17 March 2014

... to climatic and seasonal factors in an Australian desert lizard Amphibolurus nuchalis Aust. J. Zool. 39 373 85 Bradshaw, S. D., Saint Girons, H. and Bradshaw, F. J., 1991. Patterns of breeding in two species of agamid lizards in the arid subtropical Pilbara region of Western Australia. Gen. Comp...

View article titled, Aspects of the morphology and reproductive biology of the Australian Earless Dragon Lizard Tympanocryptis tetraporophora

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Distribution, habitat and conservation status of Leggadina lakedownensis (Rodentia: Muridae) in Queensland

A.S. Kutt, J.E. Kemp

Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (2): 258–264.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2005.023

Published: 17 March 2014

...). The species also occurs in Western Australia in the Pilbara and the Kimberley (Menkhorst and Knight 2001). This note describes the location and habitat of five new records for L. lakedownensis, collected during four vertebrate fauna surveys in northern Queensland. Past records of the species are reviewed...

View article titled, Distribution, habitat and conservation status of Leggadina lakedownensis (Rodentia: Muridae) in Queensland

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A review of the taxonomy and distribution of Australia’s endemic Calyptorhynchinae black cockatoos

Denis A Saunders, Geoffrey Pickup

Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 145–191.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.022

Published: 10 August 2023

... Australia. He concluded that the population in the northern wheatbelt, Murchison, and Pilbara regions of Western Australia was a separate taxon (Calyptorhynchus magnificus samueli) to the one distributed in forests of south-western Australia (C. m. naso). There has been confusion with regard to black...

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THE WATERFINDERS. A cultural history of the Australian dingo

Justine Philip

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 593–607.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.034

Published: 16 October 2020

... on the infamous Canning Stock Route, a path for transferring cattle (Davenport et al., 2010). The stock route weaves its way from the Western Kimberly region of north of Australia, through the Pilbara desert, and down to the markets in Wiluna, Central Western Australia. It took 12-16 weeks for mobs of cattle...

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Clutch size, incubation and nestling periods, and age estimation of nestling Red-tailed Black Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus banksii escondidus in the Western Australian wheatbelt

Denis A Saunders, Ross B Cunningham

Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 37–46.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.004

Published: 07 February 2023

... the tree-lined water courses of the Pilbara and Murchison regions. With the clearing of native vegetation and development of broad-scale agriculture, the bird has expanded its range into the northern and central wheatbelt of Western Australia. This expansion (Saunders et al. 1985) is a result...

View article titled, Clutch size, incubation and nestling periods, and age estimation of nestling Red-tailed Black Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus banksii escondidus in the Western Australian wheatbelt

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Food and movements of the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksi escondidus in the Western Australian wheatbelt

Denis A. Saunders

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (4): 960–971.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.040

Published: 21 October 2022

... along the riverine plains of the semi-arid Pilbara, Murchison, and Gascoyne Regions. It is expanding its range into the Western Australian wheatbelt (Saunders and Ingram 1995). The third taxon, C. b. naso occurs in the mesic, forested, south-west corner of the state. It has the same body size...

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The Spinifexbird Eremiornis carteri in the Desert Uplands Bioregion, north-central Queensland: a geographic isolate or a nomadic metapopulation?

A.S. Kutt

Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (2): 246–251.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2003.006

Published: 17 March 2014

... of range expansion and contraction (Ford and Parker 1974). Its existence in a series of primary refuges (Selwyn Ranges/ Mt Isa-Opalton Plateau, Hammersley and Pilbara Ranges, Central Australian ranges) (Schodde 1982; Ford 1987; Schodde and Mason 1999) on face value suggests that the undifferentiated status...

View article titled, The Spinifexbird Eremiornis carteri in the Desert Uplands Bioregion, north-central Queensland: a geographic isolate or a nomadic metapopulation?

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