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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.009
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... Roost trees at three Pteropus conspicillatus camps in the Australian Wet Tropics were monitored for the presence and absence of individuals over a four month period. The number of individual P. conspicillatus in roost trees varied on a variety of time scales, with seasonal changes...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.053
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-4-1
... In May 2001 the Grey-headed Flying-fox was listed on Schedule 2 of the Threatened Species Conservation (TSC) Act. The NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) now has a regulatory role in the protection of the ‘camps’, or roosting colonies, of this species wherever they may occur...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 109–115.
Published: 11 May 2023
...Christopher P. Slade; David M. Power ABSTRACT The Eastern Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus megaphyllus is known to roost in caves, disused mines, tunnels and old buildings. Other tropical Rhinolophus species are reported to use tree roosts, but this has not been reported for R. megaphyllus . We describe...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (3): 329.
Published: 17 March 2014
...Martin Schul The Little Bent-wing Bat Minioptems australis roosting in a tree hollow Martin Schulzl 'Faculty of Resource Science and Management, Southern Cross University, P.O. Box 157, Lismore, New South Wales 2480 The Little Bent-wing Bat Minioptem awlralu is regarded as a cave-dwelling species...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.029
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... Bats in suburban areas face a number of challenges adapting to what is a highly altered landscape. This is particularly true for species that prefer tree hollows for day roosts because the large, old trees that have developed suitable hollows are often removed from suburban areas. In suburban...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.047
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... Over-winter roosting sites for Eastern Bent-wing Bats Miniopterus schreibersii oceanensis occur in urban areas including parts of greater Sydney. Most of the known over-winter roost sites in Sydney are located in the northern and western suburbs (Hoye and Spence 2004). Only one roosting site...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.030
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... equipment. Accounts by island residents indicate that bats were present in reasonable numbers following the 2 nd World War but numbers declined dramatically from the early 1960s. Eight former bat roosts were described by island residents. Five of the roosts occurred in hollow-bearing Norfolk Island Pines...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.090
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-7-2
... records revealed that it was present within inner Sydney from at least 1892. Even at this time it was utilising human structures, including the cellar of Elizabeth Bay House. An examination of both historical and current use of diurnal roosts suggests that there has been a recent possible change...
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Australian Zoologist (2016) 38 (2): 183–191.
Published: 01 January 2016
... in historic roosting sites. Helicopter surveys located another 24 potential Ghost Bat sites but none contained evidence of occupation by these carnivorous bats. A number of cave features that were considered to be important to Ghost Bats and Cane Toads were recorded and samples of Ghost Bat droppings were...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 82–91.
Published: 17 March 2014
...Walter Boles The Ghost Bat Macroderma gigas is a large (mean mass 150 g) predatory bat of subtropical and tropical Australia. It carries its vertebrate prey to roost caves to be eaten and where remains are dropped and accumulate. Whereas the attack and feeding methods of M. gigas on mammals has...