#flyingfoxes — Public Fediverse posts
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Just hangin' around. #WildOz #Bats #FlyingFoxes
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Who knew bat poo could be worth millions?
A new study shows Australia's grey-headed flying foxes are dropping bat ripple magic across millions of hectares. Their seed-dispersing guano helps grow a median of around 90 million new trees every year, mostly eucalypts.
That's an estimated 217 million to 955 million boost to the timber industry alone. Not bad for some flying forest gardeners who connect bushfire-scarred landscapes like pros.
Time to stop seeing them as pests and start celebrating these keystone heroes. Protect the bats, protect the forests.#flyingfoxes #batripple #australianwildlife #ecosystemservices #biodiversitymatters #savethebats
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Here's a view of the flying foxes along the side of Stoney Creek. The colony has expanded to near its limits now without crossing the creek or roads, must be many thousands in there now.
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The little red flying fox colony at Stoney Creek, Toronto NSW was very noisy this morning. It seemed like everyone was awake, some flying about, all chattering or screeching. Warm sunny morning?
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Climate Change Brings Another Species Closer to Extinction
#Environment #ClimateChange #Australia #Bats
#GlobalHeating #BiodiversityLoss #ExtinctionCrisis #FlyingFoxes #GreyHeadedFlyingFox #Heatwave #EnvironmentalCrisis #Wildlife #NatureInCrisis
https://the-14.com/climate-change-brings-another-species-closer-to-extinction/ -
More than 80% of flying fox colony wiped out as January heatwaves kill thousands of bats >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/flying-foxes-january-heatwaves-kill-thousands
#FlyingFoxes #bats #heatwaves #FossilFuels #climate #MassMortalityEvents #pollinators #biodiversity -
Grey headed flying foxes heading out to feed. #Bega #FlyingFoxes #GreyHeadedFlyingFoxes
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Wrap Artists of the Year
Rescued baby flying foxes rest, wrapped up, after being injured by giant hailstones, some as large as a cricket ball, in Queensland storms, #Australia, in November. Almost 120 fruit bats (as they are also known) were injured, some critically, before being rescued by volunteers and admitted to the RSPCA wildlife hospital.Photograph: RSPCA Queensland
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Plantation owners call for killing permits for native flying foxes
"Currently, farmers with a permit can kill up to eight grey-headed, 45 black and 50 little red flying foxes annually, and must report each death."
"[Flying foxes] are a native species … they are our only long-distance night pollinators. Flying foxes are losing a lot of their normal habitat, forcing them inland, and so they take risky actions to get food like going into yards and orchards."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-09-22/farmers-call-for-rethink-on-shooting-permits-for-flying-foxes/105788750
#Plantations #food #netting #ExclusionNetting #CostOfDoingBusiness #CODB #monoculture #biodiversity #bats #FlyingFoxes #pollinators #conservation #wildlife -
Endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes - misinformation is rife
"Tim Pearson, a wildlife ecologist who specialises in flying fox behaviour and communication, says the “double whammy” of destroying native forests while providing alternative food sources in farms and residential areas creates the potential for human-bat conflict and harassment, identified as a threat in recovery plans for endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes."
“The Australian attitude towards wildlife has always been positive, providing it doesn’t inconvenience you...Unfortunately for flying foxes, in their case it often does. Things have been getting better, Pearson says, but flare-ups still occur when practical concerns – about noise, the animals’ impact on fruit growers, power outages or potential disease threats – are reported in breathless terms by the media. At worst they’re vilified and face a constant battle of disinformation, hate speech and are even persecuted.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/03/australia-flying-foxes-endangered-species-list
#bats #FlyingFoxes #persecution #wildlife #dispersal #harassment #coexistence #NSWLogging #HateSpeech #MSM #ShiftingAttitudes #biodiversity #destruction -
Starving flying foxes forced to search backyards and get trapped by fruit tree netting
"They're coming into town more often, largely because humans have cut down their forests.They prefer to eat blossoms from eucalypt trees but when they're really hungry they will eat things like backyard fruit and that's the reason why we're seeing them come into cities."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-25/fruit-tree-netting-ban-canberra-protect-flying-foxes/103872532
#bats #FlyingFoxes #pollinators #LoggingImpacts #deforestation #wildlife #biodiversity #plastic #traps -
Koalas depend on bats
"Without the bats, the koalas wouldn't have the trees. So the bats are the ones that are fertilising those big eucalypts that koalas love."
"A lot of people overseas when they think of Australia, they think of koalas." In Australia "there's ...a lack of awareness about the role of bats in controlling insect populations, pollinating plants and spreading seeds, much like birds and bees do."
"Perceptions have consequences: The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) says more than half of the state's species are in decline, or their status is unknown, due to a lack of research."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-28/australia-bats-poor-reputation-covid-links-and-vampire-myths/103669082
#koalas #bats #FlyingFoxes #eucalypts #mining #misconception #superstition #EcologicalLiteracy -
This year's little red flying fox (fruit bat) colony is huge! In 24 years here, I've never seen it this big. This photo shows the usual encampment alongside the western edge of Stoney Creek south of the bridge, but it doesn't usually go right to the creek's edge.
And this year they've crossed the creek, and also moved into the wetlands area north east of the bridge.
At dusk, the whole sky seems to be filled with bats.
#bats #FruitBats #FlyingFoxes #WildOz #LakeMacquarie #NewcastleAU
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Help Austin Bat Refuge help bats! Support #Austin #Bat Refuge | Amplify Austin Day https://www.amplifyatx.org/organizations/austin-bat-refuge
>Learn more about Austin Bat Refuge and all the other organizations participating in Amplify Austin Day. #bats #FlyingFoxes #agave #tequila #AmplifyAustinMexican Freetail bats are the primary pollinators of the agave plant. No tequila without them! Let's support our flying mammal cousins!
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The locals are out.
The background noise comes from our friendly mole crickets, very happy after recent rain.
#FruitBats #FlyingFoxes #Bats -
A flying fox's long wingspan makes walking on the ground very difficult, so to drink, they dip and soak their bellies in water. But while the bats are looking for a drink, the river crocodiles are looking for food.
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If the birds rely on the food then stressing wildlife can sometimes increase the risk, i think this has been observed with #Hendravirus in #Flyingfoxes
The most important thing to get out of your garden is any domestic birds, it might be good to convert any breakfast layers into a Sunday roast. (Obviously only if you have the skill and facilities to do that safely and humanely, I'm half joking, contact an expert of some sort for advice.)
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A few days ago, we went for a walk along the Merri Creek in Clifton Hill near sunset. Perfect timing for viewing a great number of bats. Here's a sequence of photos toward Melbourne that show how quickly the sky changed over just eight minutes.
#BatsOfMastodon #Bats #FruitBats #FlyingFoxes #GreyHeadedFlyingFoxes #Melbourne #MerriCreek #CliftonHill #Sunset #Photography
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Hurrah some rain! This holiday so far has been intensely hot. Heading back to NZ tomorrow. Really going to miss the 4pm flight of massive bats/flying foxes, the doing nothing and it being the main achievement of the day, and not having any chores. Is there anything better about a holiday than NO CHORES?!
#Samoa #FlyingFoxes
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I spent yesterday evening watching the flying foxes at Yarra Bend as the sun set. They're among the largest members of the bat family and are super active at this spot along the Yarra River.
They occasionally skim the top of the river, mid flight, to cool down and get little drinks of water, then hang upside down in the gum trees along the riverbank. An incredible sight.
This always was and always will be Wurundjeri country. :firstnations: