... Advisory Committee under the Qld Nature Conservation Act 1992. Counts of these two species have indicated a decline in numbers over the last few years. There also has been an observed decline in both the area of occupancy and the extent of occurrence of the Grey-headed Flying-fox. The issuing of damage...

... Grey-headed Flying-foxes can be difficult to capture and process in sufficient numbers for population studies, and here we describe a successful method to do both and evaluate its practicality. Over the year 2006/07 (24 nights) we captured and banded with ABBBS bands 466 flying-foxes from...

... to be dropped distant from the parent tree. However, colonies of Spectacled Flying Foxes appear to have declined in number and size over the last decade, probably due to their status as unprotected fauna in Queensland. There is evidence from tropical American forests for the concept of “pivotal” tree species...

... and an integrated network of camps as stopover habitat during migration as well as suitable roosting environments. Several ecological attributes of the Grey-headed Flying-fox make this a demanding task, in particular, its wide-ranging and nomadic habits. The long distances over which flying-foxes travel mean...