#mammalwatching

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you’re not a true dasyuromorph disciple until you have a wild quoll walk up to you and sniff your phone

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Australian Sea Lion (Neophoca cinerea) - Seal Bay Conservation Park, SA, December 2021

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hello yes I am alive! been super busy this year but hoping to get back to posting

Guess there's no more on-brand way to return than announcing I have now seen ningauis irl! Got to see a bunch of southern ningauis (N. yvonneae) over the Easter weekend whilst participating in a small vertebrate survey on the Eyre Peninsula and it was a truly life changing event

they are my beloveds

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Some scenery and common wildlife from an evening in Cleland National Park, both before and after dark

(Daylight critters - yellow-tailed black-cockatoo, New Holland honeyeater, sulphur-crested cockatoo)

(Creatures of the night - common ringtail possum, common brushtail possum, koala and southern boobook)

Additional invasive thug - look at those chompers!:

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A collection of possum species from my June 2023 roadtrip through NSW, the ACT and south-east Queensland

Krefft's Glider (Petaurus notatus) - Black Mountain Nature Reserve, ACT

Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) - Cotter Campground, ACT

Broad-toed Feathertail Glider (Acrobates frontalis) - Warrumbungle National Park, NSW

Short-eared Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus caninus) - Lamington National Park, QLD

Southern Greater Glider (Petauroides volans) - Barrington Tops National Park, NSW

Common Ringtail Possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) - Myall Lakes National Park, NSW

Yellow-bellied Glider (Petaurus australis) - Murramarang National Park, NSW

Sugar Glider (Petaurus breviceps) - Murramarang National Park, NSW

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Happy international wombat day!

Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) - west of Blanchetown, SA, September 2019