by Peter Rowland | Monday, October 19, 2020
Reptiles (Class: Reptilia) A diverse group of vertebrate animals that includes lizards, snakes, tuataras, turtles, amphisbaenians and crocodiles, all of which have scales. Their body temperature varies depending on their surroundings (ectothermic), and many species...
by Peter Rowland | Monday, October 19, 2020
Scrubwrens, Gerygones & Thornbills (Family Acanthizidae) The ‘little brown birds’, the scrubwrens, gerygones and thornbills, can be either terrestrial or arboreal. All members of this family have thin beaks and short, weak, rounded legs. The Lord Howe Gerygone...
by Peter Rowland | Monday, October 19, 2020
Vertebrates (Phylum: Chordata) Consisting of the 5 or 7 classes, depending on the authority: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, jawless fish, cartilaginous fish and bony fish (with some combining fish into a single class), each characterised by the presence of a...
by Peter Rowland | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
White-eyes Family Zosteropidae Some authorities combine the white-eyes with the True Babblers into the family Timaliidae. Within Australia there are four endemic species, the Christmas Island White-eye Zosterops natalis, Yellow White-eye Z. luteus, White-chested...
