Reptiles of South-east Queensland

Elegant Snake-eyed Skink (Cryptoblepharus pulcher), Boronia Heights.

Bearded Dragon (Pogona barbata), Edens Landing.

Macquarie Turtle (Emydura macquarii), Joyner.

Garden Skink (Lampropholis delicata), Varsity Lakes.

Dark Bar-sided Skink (Eulamprus martini), Parklands.

Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis), Mooloolaba.

Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii), South Brisbane.

Copper-tailed Skink (Ctenotus taeniolatus), Woorim.

Lace Monitor (Varanus varius), Noosa Heads.

Nobbi Dragon (Diporiphora nobbi), Joyner.

Carpet Python (Morelia spilota), Mount Glorious.

Eastern Stone Gecko (Diplodactylus vittatus), Seven Hills.

Burton's Snake-Lizard (Lialis burtonis), Seven Hills.

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Tadpoles of South-eastern Australia: A Guide With Keys

Book review Reed New Holland Publishing, 2002. It’s noon on a warm autumn day and I am driving south along Beaudesert Road towards the peripheral suburbs of Brisbane’s southside that remain largely a mystery to me. I have decided that not knowing the amphibian fauna inhabiting the suburb of Algester is a personal error that I simply must rectify. My favourite way to search for frogs is to go spotlighting on humid spring and summer nights, but I have left it a little late this year and doubt my chances at finding them now that the evenings have mercifully turned cooler. Instead, I am going to survey the local amphibian population in a way that is quite new to me, aided by a secret weapon sitting in the passenger seat next to me: Marion Anstis’s book, Tadpoles of South-eastern Australia: A Guide With Keys .

Creek Fishing in the Redlands

Hilliards Creek Situated to the south-east of Brisbane, the Redlands shire encompasses many areas of natural beauty, including the Cleveland foreshore and North Stradbroke Island. It is also one of the fastest growing suburban areas in Australia, and would be unrecognisable to those who knew it as a rural outpost just 25 years ago. Despite this surge in development, even the busy suburbs of Wellington Point, Ormiston and Cleveland retain areas of natural bushland set aside to preserve populations of Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) and Squirrel Gliders (Petaurus norfolcensis), from which other forms of wildlife benefit also. On my visit there today, I was interested in looking at how these other creatures are faring, particularly the fish living in Hilliards Creek.

Wild Plants of Moreton Bay

This month marks the one year anniversary of when I headed out into the bush for the first time to study not animals, but plants . It was a decision that changed my life, and I've since come to enjoy going on tree ID quests as much as I enjoy a bout of birdwatching, snorkeling or spotlighting. Last Saturday, I decided to celebrate this momentous occasion with a dawn stroll around King Island Conservation Park, off the coast of Wellington Point.

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