What lives and visits
Dangar Island?
This project aims to engage and rally the many eyes and ears of people who live on and visit Dangar Island to help learn more about the animals that also live on or visit Dangar Island. The more we know about what species call our island home or like to visit, the better protection we can provide for them.
This is not an exact science - it is a list of citizen data and images - the aim being that we are learning about the needs, behaviour and seasonal changes to the creatures on and around Dangar Island.
The species list is visible on the desktop site only but you can add a species to the list from your phone as you walk about.
Item List
Plague Soldier Beetle
Scientific Name:
Chauliognathus lugubris
Location:
A mass flying and crawling on the community garden along the bowling green fence behind the citrus
Date:
March
2023
Sighted by:
SB
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Sighting Notes:
Enormous number of these small bettles are crawling over palnts nad grass and flying in the air. They've been living in the soil and have all just become airborne to mate.
White Headed Pigeon
Scientific Name:
Columba leucomela
Location:
Near corner of Neotsfield and Grantham in a Cheese Tree
Date:
December
2022
Sighted by:
S.B>
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Sighting Notes:
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Common Tree Snake
Scientific Name:
Dendrelaphis punctulatus
Location:
On the eastern side Of Riverview Ave in Summer
Date:
March
2022
Sighted by:
A.P.
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Sighting Notes:
The tree snake likes to hang above the shallow water bowl probably looking for frogs. It is so shy that it quickly disappears as soon as it is aware of us.
Bar-sided Forest Skink
Scientific Name:
Concinnia tenuis
Location:
These skinks live in our home on the eastern side of Riverview Ave
Date:
April
2023
Sighted by:
A.P.
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Sighting Notes:
In 2017 a Bar-sided Forest Skink took up residence and would poke its head out of a hole in the window sill waiting for some rice, papaya, avocado or tuna to be offered to it. The a few years later another one joined it, so there's now 2 skinks that watch us hopefully for some little edible treats.
Broad Tailed Gecko
Scientific Name:
Phyllurus Platurus
Location:
Eastern side of Riverview Ave
Date:
September
2022
Sighted by:
AP
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Sighting Notes:
Tell us the story... Since 1990s we have seen geckos on the boulders and on the walls of our house mostly at night but once in the light of day watched a kookaburra catch one off the boulder behind our house
Powerful Owl
Scientific Name:
Ninox strenua
Location:
In the centre of the island-ish
Date:
February
2023
Sighted by:
AP
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Sighting Notes:
It was about 7.30 pm. We wondered down to look at the owl below Catherine Kirby's place, between Riverview and Grantham on the southern side - ish. It didn't seem bothered by us at all. We got within 2 m of it. It was roosting, probably waiting for the fruit bats to come out nearby at Karl and Louisa's place.
Photo: Ben Miller
Botany Bay Weevil
Scientific Name:
Chrysolopus spectabilis
Location:
On the public path to the north beach off Yallaroi
Date:
February
2023
Sighted by:
GG
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Sighting Notes:
I was coming home from a long day but couldn’t fail to notice this iridescent blue bug on the path. I dropped my bags, took a photo and then carried on with the carrying business.
I used the Australian Museum website to identify and name the species. Weevils have such a bad name but there are so many and some are quite pretty.
Mullet
Scientific Name:
Mugil cephalus
Location:
Mullet Creek
Date:
January
2023
Sighted by:
GG
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Sighting Notes:
It was morning, about 9 am. I was taking photos from my boat. In the distance I saw a mullet jump over the oyster lease.
I looked it up in the NSW Fisheries and fishesofaustralia.net.au but this might not be the exact species for this area...?
Other names it goes by are: Bully, Bully Mullet, Flathead Mullet, Grey Mullet, Hardgut Mullet, Hard-gut Mullet, Hardgut River Mullet, Mangrove Mullet, Poddies, Poddy Mullet, Poddy Mullet and Mullet, River Mullet, Sand Mullet, Striped Mullet.
This image of a pinkeye mullet - common to esturine coastal waters from southern Qld to Southern NSW was taken from the Australian Museum website © Sascha Schultz
