Sentences with word «bilby»

Preliminary observations of bilbies that have been fitted with transmitters show that the animals are traveling throughout the enclosure and digging extensively for their favorite roots and insects, according to project coordinator Katherine Moseby.

It quickly developed a taste for ground - dwelling native species like bilbies, wallabies and numbats, leading to declines in their numbers.

Species extinctions attributed to invasive predators include the Hawaiian rail (Zapornia sandwichensis) and Australia's lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura).

Dingoes are known to prey upon kangaroos, emus and feral goats and it's thought they also deter foxes and feral cats — the two introduced predators blamed for causing massive declines in animals such as bilbies, bandicoots and bettongs across Australia.

Feral cats have all but wiped out the last remaining Queensland stronghold in the wild of the endangered greater bilby.

There are more certified organic chocolate bunnies, eggs and bilby choices than ever this Easter.

The Project released nine bilbies at Easter.

A 14 - square - kilometer enclosure in central Australia is once again home to bouncing baby bilbies, thanks to the efforts of a project aimed at restoring a larger area to pre-European condition.

With the second round of pouch young emerging, they estimate that around 20 bilbies now inhabit the site.

The use of poison baits can reduce cat density, but even low levels of cat predation can exterminate threatened mammal populations, such as when cats killed at least seven bilbies reintroduced outside the Arid Recovery reserve in South Australia.

So I asked the Queensland Minister for Environment and Heritage Protection Andrew Powell, do we know precisely how many bilbies are left?

It's speculated that there may now be as few as 200 bilbies surviving in the wild.

I want cute bunny / chick / bilby stuff that's non-edible.

Foxes, introduced for sport, and feral cats decimated the yellow - footed rock wallabies, along with other uniquely Australian species like bilbies and bettongs.

In Australia, cats have been implicated in the extinction of at least 20 mammal species and sub-species, including the lesser bilby and desert bandicoot.

The priority list of mammal species requiring protection includes Kangaroo Island dunnart, numbat, eastern barred bandicoot, mountain pygmy - possum, golden bandicoot, eastern bettong, brush - tailed rabbit - rat, mala, western quoll and greater bilby.

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The entire chocolate egg, bunny or bilby must meet strict requirements — all ingredients must be certified organic

«Once we remove the last of the rabbits, the bilbies can have access to the whole project area next year,» Moseby says.

Researchers plan to take advantage of the bilby boom, which is providing a valuable opportunity to study these little - known marsupials.

In the last few decades, for example, the bilby has been introduced to Thistle Island, the tammar wallaby to Greenly Island and the banded hare - wallaby to Bernier and Dorre Islands.

While habitat destruction has caused some extinctions, cats, foxes, and rats introduced around 1800 by British sailors have also played a major role, decimating native animals like bilbies and bandicoots — both small, ratlike marsupials found only in Australia.

More than 20 species of bandicoot and bilby, members of the order Peramelemorphia, live in Australia and New Guinea.

«Larrikins» would have starred Hugh Jackman, Margot Robbie and Naomi Watts in a comedy about a bilby — a marsupial native to the Australian Outback — who leaves his home under a rock to go on a road trip with a band.

This is a charming rhyming tale of two cousin bilbies; (a bilby is a long eared Australian marsupial).

No one is going to get hurt - meet Gary and Bub - the bilby hero and heroine of this little e book...

The second is to cut out the stomach to await the attentions of ecologist Rachel Paltridge, who sifts through the stomach contents looking for clues to the cat's distribution and hunting habits in the entrails, as well as any remnants of threatened species, such as the bilby.»

Feral cats also eat many threatened species in Australia, and have been implicated in the decline of many species including the bilby, numbat, and western ground parrot.

Andrew Powell: I think as a state we will always continue to do what we need to do to ensure our threatened species like the bilby are protected and conserved as best we can.

Frank Manthey: There's a guy that did some research on the letter - winged kite who went out to exactly where the bilbies are.

Has Queensland and the bilby been let down or short - changed by the Commonwealth?

The bilby is listed nationally as threatened, yet the federal government contributed nothing.

By March this year, the stomachs of more than 3,000 shot cats had been dissected to reveal at least 120 bilbies, and countless other native species.

The cat versus the bilby.

A specialist guide will introduce you to some of the smaller species like bettongs, pottaroos, bilbies and bandicoots.

Visitors will encounter Australia's threatened wildlife like potoroos, platypus, kangaroos, bilbies, bandicoots and bettongs in 34 hectares of habitat.

Queensland had spent what seemed sufficient on the Currawinya National Park bilby fence, but after the decimation of bilby numbers by feral cats following flood damage to the fence they appear now to be literally doubling down on it.

«Citizen scientists» took their cue from Goolarabooloo people's firsthand knowledge of local environs, conducting highly successful surveys of turtle nests and bilbies.