You have to admit this sequence of photos capturing a mother short-eared possum and her bub is pretty cute! The Short-eared Possum, Trichosurus caninus, invests a great deal of energy rearing their young. They occur in wet sclerophyll and sub-tropical forests and are frequently seen when out spotlighting at Girralong Rainforest Retreat.
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We were excited to record this family of Parma Wallaby at Girralong Rainforest Retreat - a 200 acre conservation property comprised of sub-tropical rainforest and wet-and-dry eucalypt forest. The Parma Wallaby is a rare species restricted to the coast and ranges of central and northern NSW. Major threats to their conservation include predation by foxes and feral cats, loss and fragmentation of habitat through land-clearing for timber and grazing. There is a healthy population of superb lyrebirds at Girralong Rainforest Retreat. We recently captured this beautiful male on camera.
The lyrebird has an extraordinary ability to mimic almost any sound it hears, including individual songs of other bird species, chatter of flocks of birds, other animals such as koalas and dingoes, as well as man-made sounds. We regularly hear lyrebirds from the cottage as they broadcast a complex repertoire of birdsongs. |
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