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Frogs in the Araucaria pond

Ronda — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:48:40 +0000

Frogs at home at Running Creek, Scenic Rim, southeast Queensland

Dainty green treefrog

We’ve been hearing and seeing a few frogs lately, on warm wet evenings (although some of the evenings have been surprisingly cool for a Queensland summer).

Clicking froglets (Crinia signifera) have been very vocal, and we’ve heard a variety of others, including spotted and striped marsh frogs, tusked frogs, the green tree frog and the great barred frogs.

This little beauty is the dainty green treefrog, Litoria gracilenta, on a Dianella (native flax lily) next to the small pond near our wildlife ecology centre.

Another bat stuck in a cocos palm

Ronda — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:55:02 +0000

We had another call today to rescue a bat caught in a cocos palm. These palms are really bad news for wildlife – it would be good to see them all replaced with bangalow or other native wildlife-friendly palms.

Once again the bat freed himself while we attempted to reach him, but this time with his leg bleeding, so we can only hope the wound was not too serious.

Amateur naturalists contribute to science

Ronda — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:03:04 +0000

A couple of years ago, Wildlife Tourism Australia ran a workshop in Beaudesert on the role of the amateur naturalist in science and conservation

There has been an interesting example recently in England, with a gardener showing that garden snails appear to have a formerly undetected ‘homing instinct.’

School childrfen are now being encouraged to join in the study to confirm this – and see the BBC article ‘Snails have a homing instinct.’