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arjay wrote:

20 min ago

We very rarely see black rats or for that matter house mice. Instead we have bush rats and antechinus both of which are much nicer animals.

Rattus fuscipes

arjay wrote:

28 min ago

I do have other photos. Is there anything specific that you need to give a better ID?
This bat had landed in a shallow bowl and it couldn't actually take off flying from this position. It was taken outside.
The person who caught them has absolutely no taxonomic qualifications whatsoever so no ID from them.

Vespertilionidae (family)

DonFletcher wrote:

33 min ago

Hi arjay, I agree with fuscipes but we see so few these days, compared to hundreds of R rattus, that I wanted more certainty. Verified as fuscipes.

Rattus fuscipes

arjay wrote:

33 min ago

No background. The bat was being evicted from a house. Normally we leave them alone and they make their own way out. Or not. Sometimes they get themselves into impossible positions where they can't take off so in that case we very carefully take them outside.
The general area is dry sclerophyll forest with some cleared grassland that is reverting via ti tree and wattles to a forested state.

Chalinolobus gouldii

arjay wrote:

40 min ago

These are the only two photos I have and they were taken in 2014 so the animal itself is long gone. I have loaded an magnified image of tail. Sorry no images of the other ear or hind foot. Will keep it in mind for next time. I had assumed it was R. fuscipes. It is not R. rattus. Tail too short although it looks like it has been trimmed a bit at some stage. Ears too small. Surrounding habitat is difficult. It varies a lot. Probably mostly dry sclerophyll forest that is extremely wet at the moment. Old cleared areas are reverting to forest via ti tree, Bursaria and wattles. Very slowly.

Rattus fuscipes