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... being impacted by noise, odour and faeces from flying-fox roosts in close proximity (Smith 2002; West 2002; Mo et al. 2020a,b, 2022) and economic losses from flying-fox depredation of commercial fruit crops (McClelland et al. 2011). Additionally, traditional prejudices towards bats have also impacted...

... With the occurrence of many flying-fox roosts in urban areas across eastern Australia (Timmiss et 566 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 43 (4) 2024 Normalising flying-foxes: a bold vision for improving the public perceptions of our largest and most conspicuous bats al. 2021), the potential for further urban roosts...

... Conservation Act 1995 (Lunney et al. 2000). The Black Flying-fox was subsequently delisted from this Act in 2009, which was primarily based on substantial increases in both its abundance and distribution within NSW since the 1990s (NSW Scientific Committee 2008). roosts (better known as camps) in urban areas...

[email protected] bats community engagement human-wildlife conflict threatened species urban ecology A management case study of a Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus camp on residential land Matthew Mo1*, Lorraine Oliver2, Kylie Coutts-McClelland3, Nathaly Jones4 and Joshua Gregory1...

... the social and political context of flying-fox camp management, in addition to flying-fox ecology. Key words: Camp management, Grey-headed Flying-fox, human-wildlife conflict, Pteropus poliocephalus, urban ecology DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.002 Introduction al. 2017). Microchiropteran bats are rarely...

... in suburban bushland by the urban sensitive bat Nyctophilus gouldi. Journal of Mammalogy 94(2): 307-319. Webala, P.W., Craig, M.D., Law, B.S., Wayne, A.F., Bradley, J.S. 2010. Roost site selection by southern forest bat Vespadelus regulus and Gould s long-eared bat Nyctophilus gouldi in logged jarrah forests...

... (Threlfall et al.2012). Across the urban landscapes sampled in that study, M. macropus activity was positively associated with riparian habitats and vegetation gaps. Mangroves provide hollow resources that are used by roosting insectivorous bats, including M. macropus (McConville et al.2013), and along...

... then animals were retained in calico bags and released at night. Common and scientific names used here for bats are as per Armstrong et al. (2020). Mistnet Capture Two 10m monofilament mistnets were set at a known microbat roost in a disused schoolhouse at Kangaroo Valley on 31 March 1989. Nets were manned...

.... and Lentini, bad-you-can-taste-it-bats-plague-australian-tourist-town P.E. 2018. Land manager perspectives on conflict mitigation strategies for urban flying-fox camps. Diversity 10: 39. httpsdoi. Anonymous. 2016c. Flying-foxes a natural disaster for NSW org/10.3390/d10020039 town of Batemans Bay. SBS News...

.... are a prominent component of the urban fauna in eastern and northern Australia (Parry Jones 1987; Markus and Hall 2004). Flying-foxes typically roost during the day in communal camps that range in size from just a few individuals to hundreds of thousands of bats and they may be occupied seasonally...

... 1037 Installation and monitoring of bat windows in a grated roost cave in the Pilliga Forest, northern inland New South Wales,Australia Michael J. Murphy 1041 Barbara Triggs 1931-2022: an obituary and a tribute 1050 CONTENTS 2023 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 42 (4) i Annotated checklist...

...). This had an emphasis on expanding roost habitat in existing camps away from residential properties with the aim of addressing impacts on communities associated with urban flying-fox camps (Mo et al. 2022a). Anthropogenic injuries Flying-foxes suffer injuries and death from a number of anthropogenic causes...

... on biodiversity (Welbergen 2012). The majority of flyingfox species roost in colonies in exposed vegetation (Pierson and Raine 1992; Klose et al. 2009) and often in conspicuous locations, including urban and suburban areas (Timmiss et al. 2021), such that mass mortalities are easily observed (Fig. 1). Bats have...

... were recorded from 11 taxa (Table 1). In the roosting bats. I first hour after dark. this translates to 1.3 I RESULTS Records of Myotis macropus Myotis mamopus was infrequently recorded in the River Red Gum forests near Deniliquin. No M . macropus were trapped during the 46 trap-nights spent at the 18...

... targeted for urban and rural residential development to cater for an ongoing, rapid increase in human population. The conclusion drawn from this study was that Grey-headed Flying-foxes are vulnerable to population decline from the ongoing clearing of their critical over-wintering habitat in lowland coastal...

... abundance of bat s~ecies in the Figure 4 . The Little Bent-wing Bat Minioptmu australis, a common microchiropteran bat in coastal and near-coastal northeastern Australia. It roosts in caves and tunnels during the day, foraging in rainforest, Melaleuca swamps, woodlands and mangroves. This bat was the most...

... colony of this species. The limited availabilitv of roost tree may be the cause of this large aggregation bf bats. The importance of checking mature or dead trees prior to felling is demonstrated by the between the sexes, but significant differences occurred between bats from Brightview and Mt. Isa...