FFNC Mammal List for the Boonah Area

Koala (photo L. Cross)

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The Fassifern Field Naturalists have been recording local flora and fauna both for Club outings, and individual member sightings for over 30 years. In that time we have recorded 55 species of mammals. 

All lists have their weaknesses. They depend on so many factors:
1) Human – the experience of the observers, the number of surveys, the change in personnel of a group, etc.; 2) Environmental – the areas surveyed, droughts, fires, floods, tree clearing, change in agricultural practices, building of dams, etc. As many of our mammals are nocturnal they are not often sighted so maybe more common than our records show.

Legend:
VC = very commonly reported – almost every month 
C = commonly reported – 6-8 times a year 
OS = occasionally reported - 3-5 times a year  
UN = uncommonly reported - only 1-2 times a year
R = rarely reported - only a few times in 30+ years, often only once in that time

Monotremes

Platypus                                R                          

Short-beaked Echidna           UN

Red-necked Pademelon
(Photo L. Cross)

Marsupial Mice, Quolls 

& relatives        

Yellow-footed Antechinus       R                      

Spotted-tail Quoll                  R

Brush-tailed Phascogale        UN

Common Planigale                  R

Common Dunnart                    R

Bandicoots  

Northern Brown Bandicoot      OS

Long-nosed Bandicoot              R

Koalas

Koala                                      OS

Brushtail Possums 

Mountain Brushtail Possum         R                        

Common Brushtail Possum         VC

Gliders        

Sugar Glider                              R

Eastern Grey Kangaroo & joey
(Photo L. Cross)

Squirrel Glider                           R

Greater Glider                           R

Feathertail Glider                      R

Bettongs     

Rufous Bettong                         OS

Macropods  

Eastern Grey Kangaroo             VC

Whiptail Wallaby                       C

Red-necked Wallaby                VC

Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby         R

Red-legged Pademelon              R                

Red-necked Pademelon             R

Swamp Wallaby                        R 

Red-necked Wallaby
(Photo L. Beaton)

Flying Foxes/Fruit Bats    

Black Flying-fox                     UN

Grey-headed Flying-fox          OS

Little Red Flying-fox                R

Microbats    

Eastern Horseshoe Bat             R

White-striped Freetail Bat       R

Little Bent-wing Bat                R

Common Bent-wing Bat           R

Gould's Long-eared Bat            R

Eastern Broadnosed Bat           R

Eastern Forest Bat                   R

Mice, Rats & relatives      

Water Rat                              R

Grassland Melomys                 R

Eastern Chestnut Mouse         R

Bush Rat                               R

Introduced Species

House Mouse                         C

Brown Rat                            R

Black Rat                            OS

Dingo/Feral Dog                   C

Red Fox                              OS

Feral Cat                             R

Red Deer                             R

Pig                                      R

European Hare                    C