by Peter Rowland | Friday, October 16, 2020
Banana Stalk-fly Scientific Name: Telostylinus lineolatus Size: TL 20mm What does it look like? The Banana-stalk Fly is dark brown and yellowish-cream, with large red eyes on elongated head, and moderately long, thickened antennae with single long thin arista arising...
by Peter Rowland | Monday, October 19, 2020
Peramelemorphs (Order: Peramelemorphia) Bandicoots are timid, nocturnal ground-dwellers, and only 9 species remain today, with the Desert Bandicoot Perameles eremiana the only extinct member. They are often confused with rodents, but are marsupials with backward...
by Peter Rowland | Friday, October 16, 2020
Bandy-bandy In characteristic defensive posture Scientific Name: Vermicella annulata Size: 800 mm What does it look like? The Bandy-bandy has alternating black-and-white cross-bands wrapping completely around body, with up to 75 black rings evident. Snout black, eyes...
by Peter Rowland | Friday, October 16, 2020
Bar-shouldered Dove Scientific Name: Geopelia humeralis Size: 27 to 31 cm What does it look like? The Bar-shouldered Dove has a slender build, brown upperparts, with distinct black edging to each feather, russet nape, grey face and throat and pale underparts, should...
by Peter Rowland | Friday, October 16, 2020
Bar-tailed Godwit Scientific Name: Limosa lapponica Size: 37 to 45 cm What does it look like? The Bar-tailed Godwit is mainly mottled brown above and lighter and more uniform buff below. It has dull white underwings, and a long, slightly upturned bill. As the name...
