Colin, I have some expertise with small/medium Top End mammals, including Black-footed Tree-rat, having worked for some decades as a biological consultant up here. See my writeup in Fauna of Kakadu and the Top End (1993). Regards Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow PO Box 71 Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841 PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW. Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia Founding Member: Australian Federation of Graduate Women Northern Territory 043 8650 835 On 12 Dec 2014, at 8:58 am, colin trainor <halmahera@hotmail.com> wrote: > According to the “Action Plan for Australian Mammals” there have been no confirmed records of Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat in the Greater Darwin area since 1993, and it is now thought to have been extirpated in Kakadu Nat Park, with no captures since 2008 despite ongoing monitoring. > > Your observation would more likely to have been the still regionally extant Black-footed Tree Rat …. > > > > Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat > > > > from > [Denise Goodfellow] > [Permanent Link][Original] > > > > > > > > > > To: > > birding-aus <birding-aus@birding-aus.org> > > > > > Subject: > > Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat > > > > > From: > > Denise Goodfellow <goodfellow@bigpond.com.au> > > > > > Date: > > Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:21:41 +0930 > > > > > > > > > > > Late one night a couple of weeks ago I saw a Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat on a > Darwin River road. There is one other record of what sounds like this animal > from this area, from a local man. > > If any Birding Aussers are in the vicinity of Darwin River could you please let > me know of any sightings? > > Thanks > Denise > > > Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow > PO Box 71 > >
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