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Grey-headed Flying-fox
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Bat Links

Bats in Australia. The Australian Museum's interactive guide to the bat fauna of Australia. Includes images and general information on the distribution, diet, habitat and conservation threats for most Australian bat species.

The Australasian Bat Society is a society of scientists and other people interested in research and the conservation of bats.

Flying-fox Group of Cabramatta. Provides information about the Cabramatta Creek Flying-fox Committee (CCFC), with details on their community education program, the Cabramatta Creek Flying-fox Reserve, and the habitat restoration project in the reserve.

The CSIRO website has lots of information on all sorts of Australian wildlife including bats and bat lyssavirus.

Bat Conservation International is an organisation dedicated to the conservation of bats and publishes an interesting quarterly newsletter. This site has lots of interesting information about bats worldwide.

Flying-foxes on Bellingen Island. With text and photographs by Vivien Jones, this web site tells about the flying foxes you may see on Bellingen Island. The island is in the centre of Bellingen, a small town close to the coast and to Coffs Harbour, in New South Wales, Australia.

Marg Turton has some good information on Australian bats and other animals.

The Action Plan for Australian Bats (Environment Australia). Edited by A. Duncan, G.B. Baker and N. Montgomery (1999). Outlines the threatening processes and conservation piorities for 90 taxa of Australian bats, and highlights the conservation concerns for Australian flying-foxes that have emerged as a result of continuing habitat loss.

 

About Bats A website by Bat Rescue Inc., a self funded volunteer organisation whose members are permitted under the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to care for sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. A great site for rescue and rehabilitation information with a fun kids section. 

 

The Lubee Foundation in USA have a wonderful ABC of Bats.
Primary age children will love the striking photos and simple but informative words. Click on 'Bats ABC'.

 The Tolga Bat Hospital website which aims to improve the public's perception and understanding of bats, and to contribute to the survival of bats and their habitat. Every year Tolga Bat Hospital rescues, rehabilitates and releases hundreds of bats that might otherwise die.
 Nick Edards is a Sydney based photographer, whose website contains lots of pictures of Flying-fox mothers and pups

 

 

 

 



Last modified by Helen Logie on 2008/12/01.

 


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Grey-Headed Flying-Fox
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Microbat
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Ku-ring-gai
Flying-Fox Reserve
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