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| Thumbnails: 118. 19 native species (8 introduced) listed, with 10 natives (7 introduced) from Ellura |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Even-toed Ungulates (Artiodactyla); 1 species from Ellura - Cloven-hoofed Mammal (Bovidae); 1 species from Ellura | Feral Goat Capra hircus iNaturalist | If e m f |
Thank you Antoni Camozzato for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 17 in Apr(9), Jul(3) & Sep(5) |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Placental mammals (Carnivora); 3 species, 2 from Ellura - Canine (Canidae); 1 species from Ellura | Red Fox Vulpes vulpes iNaturalist | If e m a |
Thank you Geoffrey Cox for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 3 in Jan(1), Sep(1) & Oct(1) |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Placental mammals (Carnivora); 3 species, 2 from Ellura - Cat (Felidae); 1 species from Ellura | Feral Cat Felis catus | If e m a r c | Imaged 1 in Aug |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Placental mammals (Carnivora); 3 species, 2 from Ellura - Eared Seal (Otariidae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Long-nosed fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri iNaturalist | Na c | Thank you Antoni Camozzato for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 4(1M,2F) in Jul(3:1M,2F) & Sep(1) |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Dolphins & Whales (Cetacea); 1 species, none from Ellura - Right Whale (Balaenidae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Southern Right Whale Eubalaena australis iNaturalist | P-V c | Thank you Patrick White for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 1 in Sep |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Bats (Chiroptera); 5 species from Ellura - Free-tailed Bat (Molossidae); 2 species from Ellura | White-striped Freetail-bat Austronomus australis | LC e m |
A big thanks to Aimee Linke, Project Manager at Mid Murray Landcare SA, for lending us the anabat and getting our recordings identified. We're not sure how we'll get photo's but hopefully we will manage it one day. |
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| Southern Free-tailed Bat Ozimops planiceps | NT e m |
A big thanks to Aimee Linke, Project Manager at Mid Murray Landcare SA, for taking recordings and getting our bats identified. We're not sure how we'll get photo's but hopefully we will manage it one day. |
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| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Bats (Chiroptera); 5 species from Ellura - Vesper Bat (Vespertilionidae); 3 species from Ellura | Gould's Wattled Bat Chalinolobus gouldii iNaturalist | LC e m | Thank you Michael Pennay for confirming and Jakob Fahr
for helping with the id of this species for us Nose to tail, she was ~80mm long. We were dismayed to find this poor bat trapped behind a plastic cupboard in our annex. Since then we have sealed everything up better and stopped this from ever happening again. Very dehydrated and suffering from the heat we put gloves on and managed to get it out without injury. There's a short video here showing Marie giving it a drink. We then put it on the roof of our car to cool down (in the shade) and a few minutes later it flew off looking refreshed. You must never handle bats as they can carry a lethal (to humans) virus; Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV). Imaged 1 in Feb
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| Chocolate Wattled Bat Chalinolobus morio | DD e m | A big thanks to Aimee Linke, Project Manager at Mid Murray Landcare SA, for lending us the anabat and getting our recordings identified. We're not sure how we'll get photo's but hopefully we will manage it one day. |
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| Little Forest Bat Vespadelus vulturnus | NT e m | A big thanks to Aimee Linke, Project Manager at Mid Murray Landcare SA, for taking recordings and getting our bats identified. We're not sure how we'll get photo's but hopefully we will manage it one day. |
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| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Carnivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia); 1 species, none from Ellura - Carnivorous Marsupials (Dasyuridae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Slender-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis murina iNaturalist | NT m r | These were found on an expedition North of here, with a team of people helping with id's. We ask that you do not try this without expert supervision. It'd be easy to injure the animal, or get bitten. A small mouse like marsupial. Females have a pouch The soles of the rear feet have diagnostic pads. Imaged 2(1M,1F) in Oct |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Kangaroos & Wombats (Diprotodontia); 9 species, 4 from Ellura - Kangaroo & Wallaby (Macropodidae); 5 species, 3 from Ellura | Black-faced Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus ssp melanops iNaturalist | LC e m a f |
Thank you (Sea-Kangaroo), Michal Sloviak & Karen Weaving for confirming the id of this species for us Difficult to distinguish from the Red Kangaroo, as they vary in colour greatly and can have rufous tones. Colour cannot be used for identification. The key we find easiest to spot is that the Red has a more dog like muzzle. The Grey has a finer, narrower muzzle. The Grey also has fluffier ears. It's a joy to be able to walk within 20m of feeding roos on Ellura and not have them run in fear. They sit back on their legs and watch, then continue grazing. The reason the Grey's have a finer muzzle than the Red's is because the Grey's prefer to eat bushes (saltbush, westringia rigida, etc), where as the Red's eat grass. New shoots are a delicacy for the Grey's. The finer muzzle allows them to more easily get into the hard prickly bushes to find their tit-bits. The Greys do eat grass as well, along with the weed "Thread Iris". Male roo's are called "Jacks", and females "Jills". All the mainland Western Grey's have been put into sub-species melanops. The sub-species name "melano" means black; ergo "Black-faced". Those on Kangaroo Island have retained the Western Grey Common name and are the type species, ssp fuliginosus. One suspects since the western invasion some of the KI sub-species would have been brought to the mainland & escaped? The shot of the pair here highlights the size difference between males & females. You can see the very strong shoulders & forearms of the male compared with the female. The species varies greatly in size with adult females sometimes being only slightly larger than some larger joeys. We usually have a couple of resident females grazing Ellura. Occasionally we'll get others visit as they pass thru and then a male will hange around for a few weeks when a female is on heat. The residents (which change over time) are much more placid. Males & visiting females are very timid and bound away without a moments hesitation. Imaged 107(15M,50F,21J) in Jan(11:1M,7F,3J), Feb(3:2F,1J), Apr(2:1F,1J), Jun(5:4F,1J), Jul(21:1M,2F,1J), Aug(9:4M,3F,2J), Sep(20:4M,9F,3J), Oct(13:1M,10F,2J), Nov(14:1M,9F,4J) & Dec(9:3M,3F,3J) | |||
| Euro Osphranter robustus ssp erubescens iNaturalist | RA e m f |
Thank you Antoni Camozzato & (Sea-Kangaroo) for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 5 in Jan(1), Oct(2), Nov(1) & Dec(1) | ||||
| Red Kangaroo Osphranter rufus iNaturalist | LC e m |
Thank you Antoni Camozzato, Mark Hura, Geoffrey Cox , C. Hewitt & Orlando J. Bonney for confirming the id of this species for us Not necessarily red. Their muzzle is much like a dogs, broad and solid. Can grow very large (1.8m+), but the females are much smaller than the males. The females & joey's are easily confused with Euros. If you can get close enough you'll see the smooth hair on the back, and the muzzle has white around the nose. Imaged 10 in Feb(1), Jun(1), Jul(1), Aug(1), Sep(1), Oct(3) & Nov(2) | ||||
| Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus ssp xanthopus | P-V | This was photographed in a zoo Imaged 1 in Oct | ||||
| Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor | DD m | Generally we don't get Wallabies in the Murray Mallee region. Those shown here were in a zoo. It's possible we get these, but if so they'd be pretty rare; perhaps along the river where there is plenty of moisture. There are no records showing on Atlas and the 2010 survey shows them as Data Defficient. We show Wallabies here to help differentiate them from other 'roos that we do get in the area. Helping people with their wildlife id's. Imaged 1 in Oct | ||||
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Kangaroos & Wombats (Diprotodontia); 9 species, 4 from Ellura - Brushtail Possum (Phalangeridae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula iNaturalist | P-R m a | Thank you Patrick White for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 3(1F,1J) in Mar |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Kangaroos & Wombats (Diprotodontia); 9 species, 4 from Ellura - Koala (Phascolarctidae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Koala Phascolarctos cinereus ssp victor iNaturalist | Ir a | Thank you Terra Occ for confirming the id of this species for us While considered cute and cuddly, wild animals should not be approached. Animals that people hold in zoo's are tame. As with any large wild animal, they can inflict severe injuries if cornered. Having said that, they are not openly aggressive. A male's mating call is a loud, deep, sickening sound. It's a much bigger sound than their size suggests. This is on purpose; the ladies like their boys to be big, so the boys oblige They love stringy bark gum trees. We also often see them walking on the roads through the Adelaide Hills. You may think we've made a mistake ... of course Koala's aren't introduced! Well, yes they were; locally at least. Introduced to the Adelaide Hills in the middle of last century. So while an Australian native, not a native where these photo's were taken. This can be related to Cootamundra Wattle. A NSW native, now an "introduced" weed species in the Adelaide Hills. Similarly, can you image the destruction this species has caused to the local native environs. It's not their fault of course, should never have been located there in the first place. But Tourism is a powerful motivator in our Society. Imaged 7(2M) in Jan(1), Jul(1M), Oct(2), Nov(2) & Dec(1M) |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Kangaroos & Wombats (Diprotodontia); 9 species, 4 from Ellura - Ringtail Possum (Pseudocheiridae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus iNaturalist | Na a | Thank you Kate Sandiford for confirming the id of this species for us It seems they can be differentiated from Brush-tails without seeing the tail: Lee-anne Lever said "Ringtails have small rounded ears." Imaged 1 in Dec |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Kangaroos & Wombats (Diprotodontia); 9 species, 4 from Ellura - Wombat (Vombatidae); 1 species from Ellura | Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat Lasiorhinus latifrons iNaturalist | NT e m | Thank you Alan Melville & (RudyNature) for confirming the id of this species for us Nocturnal, but can rarely come out in the day to warm in the sun. They vary in colour from dusky brown to dark grey. They often have a light grey patch on the nose as well as eye highlights (above and below the eye). Very fast runners, but don't get much nutrition out of their grass feed, so best not to disturb them. Baby wombats are called "Pinkies" as they don't have any hair. They are only ever seen due to the mothers being killed and people removing the babies to try and save them. Imaged 11 in Apr(2), May(1), Jun(2), Aug(1), Sep(3) & Nov(2) |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Hares & Rabbits (Lagomorpha); 2 species from Ellura - Hare & Rabbit (Leporidae); 2 species from Ellura | European Hare Lepus europaeus iNaturalist | If e m a |
Thank you (Sea-Kangaroo) for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 3 in Jan(1), Apr(1) & Dec(1) | ||
| Feral European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus iNaturalist | If e m a |
Thank you Josh Magro (JMag1) for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 7 in Jan(1), Feb(1), Mar(1), Jul(1), Oct(1), Nov(1) & Dec(1) | |||
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Egg Laying Mammals (Monotremata); 1 species from Ellura - Echidna (Tachyglossidae); 1 species from Ellura | Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus iNaturalist | LC e m a r | Thank you Ian Castle, Russell Palmer (Dog_Walker232) & Jane Widness
for confirming the id of this species for us Covered in sharp spines. In defence will wedge themselves under bushes (in this case rocks) or, if out in the open, dig themselves down by pushing soil out the side. Their spines are dark grey and light brown. All Australian echidnas are short-beaked. The long-beaked species are in New Guinea. Russell Palmer said: "Dr Rismiller and Dr Grutzner from South Australia are very clear in their statement in their recent review of the taxa published in 2019. Page 76 "It is recognized that subspecies designations are unclear and revision is needed"". So we lifted our id to species level. Imaged 8 in Jan(1), May(1), Jul(1), Aug(1), Sep(2) & Oct(2) |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Bandicoots & Bilbies (Peramelemorphia); 1 species, none from Ellura - Bandicoot (Peramelidae); 1 species, none from Ellura | Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus ssp obesulus iNaturalist | P-V a | Thank you Geoffrey Cox
for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 1 in Oct |
| Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Mammals (Mammalia) - Rodents (Rodentia); 3 species, 2 from Ellura - Murid (Muridae); 3 species, 2 from Ellura | Ozzie Otter Hydromys chrysogaster iNaturalist | NT m r |
Thank you Michal Sloviak for confirming the id of this species for us Credit to Colin Cook for the common name Imaged 1 in Oct | |
| Western European House Mouse Mus musculus ssp domesticus iNaturalist | If e m a | Thank you Antoni Camozzato for confirming the id of this species for us Imaged 4 in Jan(1), Mar(2) & Jun(1) | ||
| Black Rat Rattus rattus iNaturalist | If e m | Thank you Josef Kohlmetz for confirming the id of this species for us ~150mm long. It seems their tail is diagnostic. We are amazed we get such large, introduced animals out here in near desert Australia. Imaged 3 in Aug | ||
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