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Its amazing how an adult western grey kangaroo will queeze from nearly 70m of a 600x600mm underpass (nearly 100 times this year)

My best underpass monitoring photos of 2012

December 21, 2012by Brian Chambers 1 Comment

Over the course of 2012 I had cameras monitoring the use of 10 different fauna underpasses across the southern Perth metro area.  Between them those cameras managed to take over […]

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Underpass
Quenda using one of the fauna underpasses at Roe Highway

Roe Highway: finally some quenda using underpasses

December 21, 2012by Brian Chambers Leave a comment

The last week of my trapping for 2012 was at the Roe Highway site, which tends to be a week of lots and lots of quenda and the site didn’t disappoint. […]

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Roe Highway, Trapping
Estimated population size for quenda in the 8ha trapping grids at The Spectacles (blue) and Jandakot Regional Park (red).

Mandogalup: females still in short supply

December 20, 2012by Brian Chambers Leave a comment

I’ve gotten a bit behind with fieldwork updates again, but now that I’ve finished for the year its time to catch up. A few of weeks ago it was the […]

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Jandakot Regional Park, The Spectacles, Trapping
Brush-tailed phascogale demonstrating its climbing skills outside a nestbox

Brush-tailed phascogale update: everyone wants in on the nestboxes

December 12, 2012by Brian Chambers Leave a comment

I spent half the day yesterday at Paganoni Swamp Reserve with one of my honours students, Fernando Garcia-Solis, checking nestboxes and collecting phascogale scats for dietary analysis.  The good news […]

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Brush-tailed phascogale, Paganoni Swamp Reserve
Feral cat asleep in an underpass between Walyungup and Cooloongup Lakes

Walyungup/Cooloongup Lake: Doing my bit for cat control

November 29, 2012by Brian Chambers 1 Comment

The past two weeks I have spent trapping at Walyungup and Cooloongup Lakes in Warnbro.  This used to be a one week job, but with a huge increase in quenda […]

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Lake Cooloongup, Lake Walyungup, Results, Trapping

The death of a sole survivor

November 19, 2012by Brian Chambers Leave a comment

In case you missed it Tim Flannery published a beautifully written article in the Sydney Morning Herald on the weekend. The article deals with Australia’s last mammal extinction, that of […]

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Wildlife conservation

Panasonic Toughpad: a possible replacement for my Algiz 7

November 19, 2012by Brian Chambers Leave a comment

Panasonic’s have just announce the release of their Toughpad Android tablet in Australia.  The Toughpad  shares the same DNA as Panasonic’s highly respected (and rather expensive) range of Toughbook notebooks […]

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Recent Posts

  • My best underpass monitoring photos of 2012
  • Roe Highway: finally some quenda using underpasses
  • Mandogalup: females still in short supply
  • Brush-tailed phascogale update: everyone wants in on the nestboxes
  • Walyungup/Cooloongup Lake: Doing my bit for cat control

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  • Australian Wildlife Conservancy
  • UWA School of Animal Biology
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