...Matthew Mo; Kylie Coutts-McClelland; Vanessa Wilson; Ron Haering; Lorraine Oliver; Linda Bell; Daniel Lunney ABSTRACT The Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus was listed as a vulnerable species by both the New South Wales (NSW) and Australian Governments in 2001. The NSW Government has...

...Matthew Mo; Kylie Coutts-McClelland; Vanessa Wilson; Ron Haering; Lorraine Oliver; Linda Bell; Daniel Lunney ABSTRACT Managing the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus as a species vulnerable to extinction in New South Wales (NSW) is complicated by contentious issues arising from flying...

...Matthew Mo; Lorraine Oliver; Kylie Coutts-McClelland; Nathaly Jones; Joshua Gregory ABSTRACT The management of a Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus camp in Berry, New South Wales, is a case study of the challenges faced by local councils and state environment agencies trying to address...

...Matthew Mo; Mike Roache; Deb Lenson; Heidi Thomson; Mitchell Jarvis; Natalie Foster; Angie Radford; Lorraine Oliver; Damon L. Oliver; Joss Bentley ABSTRACT Flying-fox camps in urban areas are a contentious wildlife management issue. Since 2012, Grey-headed Flying-foxes Pteropus poliocephalus have...

...Peggy Eby; Greg Richards; Linda Collins; Kerryn Parry-Jones The Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus has an expansive range. However, the species actually occupies a relatively restricted and continuously changing habitat area, which is primarily defined by irregular patterns of nectar...

...Linda Christesen; John Nelson The vocalisations emitted by adult and juvenile Grey-headed Flying-foxes Pteropus poliocephalus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) within daytime camps and night nurseries were studied using audio and video data. The calls were differentiated via discriminant analysis...

...David Newell; Ross Goldingay Conservation reserves are commonly relied on as a primary means of conserving threatened species. We conducted surveys for the endangered Broad-headed Snake Hoplocephalus bungaroides across 236 sites in 10 conservation reserves of the Sydney region, to assess...

... the conservation status of this species, suggest strategies to maintain viable populations, and report consistent success in breeding this species in captivity. Reptilia Serpentes Elapidae Conservation Habitat Reproduction Conservation and Reproduction of an Endangered Species: the Broad-Headed Snake...

...Anja Divljan; Kerryn Parry-Jones; Peggy Eby For several years, animal welfare concerns have been raised over the practice of shooting Grey-headed Flying-foxes (GHFF) in commercial fruit orchards in Australia, and the role of government agencies in licensing the kill. In NSW the practice is poorly...

...Mark Fitzgerald; Lazell Brian; Richard Shine The Pale-headed Snake, Hoplocephalus bitorquatus (Jan 1859), is a slender-bodied, arboreal, venomous snake that is widely, but patchily, distributed through coastal and inland eastern Australia. We summarise existing knowledge on the conservation status...

...L. Llewellyn Flat-headed Gudgeon Philypnodon grandiceps were bred in ponds and aquaria at the Narrandera Fisheries Centre at temperatures from 18.0 to 28.0°C. Breeding in inland rivers probably occurs between October and April. An abundant food supply was essential for initiating spawning...

...Isabella Howard; Jenna C. H. Ridley; Wade Blanchard; Kita R. Ashman; David B. Lindenmayer; Megan L. Head; Kara N. Youngentob ABSTRACT Nest boxes are often deployed in an attempt to offset the loss of natural tree hollows following landscape disturbance (e.g., land clearing, logging and wildfire...

...J. Sean Doody; Peter West; Jessica Stapley; Michael Welsh; Anton Tucker; Enzo Guarino; Matthew Pauza; Nina Bishop; Megan Head; Stuart Dennis; Geoff West; Ashe Pepper; Amanda Jones We use the Eastern Gas Pipeline (EGP) in southeastern Australia as a case study to examine the value of documenting...