Finally, we get to the cute and furries! 🙂 Again, Sheoak Ridge
does not disappoint on the mammal front. We often do night walks around the property to sight specific species like the striped possums and gliders. Some of our favourites include swamp wallabies, red-legged pademelons, striped possums, melomys, four species of glider… here’s the full list so you can check it out yourself: VertebratefaunalistSheoakridge2 (the list printed below is just common names, whereas the xls doc has the full scientific names). We assume we have more species than listed here, but we only record species when we have a confirmed sighting.
Possums & Gliders
Striped possum
Long-tailed pygmy-possum
Green ring-tail possum
Common brush-tail possum
Krefft’s (sugar) glider
Squirrel glider
Greater glider
Broad-toed feather-tail glider
Carnivorous marsupials
Spotted quoll
Northern quoll
Common dunnart
Yellow-footed antechinus
Macropods
Red-legged pademelon
Agile wallaby
Swamp wallaby
Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Common Wallaroo
Musky-rat kangaroo (tracks only)
Rufous bettong
Monotremes
Platypus
Echidna
Bandicoots
Northern Brown Bandicoot
Long-nosed Bandicoot
Native rodents
Grassland melomys
Giant White-tailed Rat
Fawn-footed melomys
Water rat
Prehensile-tailed rat
Bats
Eastern tube-nose bat
Spectacled flying fox
Eastern horseshoe bat
White-striped free-tailed bat
Eastern bent-winged bat
Little bent-winged bat
Gould’s long-eared bat
Large-footed myotis
Northern broad-nosed bat
Eastern cave bat
Introduced mammals – unfortunately! 😦 We do all we can to minimise the impacts of these species).
Pigs
Horses
Feral Cattle
Dingoes and wild dogs
Cat – sighted only once
For the full mammal list download this PDF: VertebratefaunalistSheoakridgeVertebratefaunalistSheoakridge
Click here to go to the other animal pages on our website (or use the tabs above under Nature-Fauna):
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