Last week saw two dreams come true – my first wild platypus [
My First Wild Platypus! - ZooChat] and first ever bird of paradise [
Paradise Riflebird - ZooChat] which were both seen on the Sunshine Coast hinterland up near the Blackall Range. The platypus was spotted along a well-known boardwalk in Maleny and the riflebird in Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve. There have been lots of interesting invertebrates with two new butterflies (including a swallowtail), three new dragonflies, lots of spiny ants as they are always so visible on tree trunks on most eucalypts and three new cicadas. My first species of bull ant and third species of fiddler crab are also worth mentioning. It was pleasing to also see king parrots fly across a small patch of remnant bushland in my local area along with several sightings of Swamp Wallabies [
Swamp Wallaby - ZooChat] as they persist through narrow bushland corridors.
Mammals
04) Platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus
05) Swamp Wallaby,
Wallabia bicolor
Birds
87) Little Egret,
Egretta garzetta
88) Striated Heron,
Butorides striata
89) Greater Crested Tern,
Thalasseus bergii
90) Pacific Heron,
Ardea pacifica
91) White-throated Needletail,
Hirundapus caudacutus
92) Pale-headed Rosella,
Platycercus adscitus
93) Little Wattlebird,
Anthochaera chrysoptera
94) House Sparrow,
Passer domesticus
95) Paradise Riflebird, Ptiloris paradiseus
96) Australian King Parrot,
Alisterus scapularis
Herptiles
10) Eastern Bearded Dragon,
Pogona barbata
11) Elegant Snake-eyed Skink,
Cryptoblepharus pulcher
12) Saw-shelled Turtle,
Myuchelys latisternum
13) Murray’s/Blue-spotted Forest Skink, Karma murrayi
14) Bar-sided Skink,
Concinnia tenuis
Inverts
96) Common Bluetail,
Ischnura heterosticta
97) Australian Duskhawker, Austrogynacantha heterogena
98) Brown Bunyip, Tamasa tristigma
99) Glasswing,
Acraea andromacha
100) Splendid Ochre,
Trapezites symmomus
101) Chalky Percher,
Diplacodes trivialis
102) Red Arrow,
Rhodothemis lieftincki
103) Orange-legged Swift Spider, Nyssus coloripes
104) Narrow-winged Awl, Badamia exclamationis
105) Tessellated Stick Insect,
Anchiale austrotessulata
106)
Mocis trifasciata [moth]
107) Australian Armyworm, Mythimna convecta
108) Giant Grasshopper,
Valanga irregularis
109) Common Glider,
Tramea loewii
110) Myrmecia queenslandica [bull ant]
111) Australian Golden Orbweaver,
Trichonephila edulis
112) Black Digger Wasp, Sphex cognatus
113) Orange-clawed Fiddler Crab, Gelasimus vomeris
114) Pan-web Orbweaver, Cyrtophora exanthematica
115) Eucalyptus Variegated Beetle, Paropsisterna cloelia
116) Macleay’s Swallowtail, Graphium macleayanus
117) Wandering Glider, Pantala flavescens
118) Common Flatwing,
Austroargiolestes icteromelas
119) Black Prince, Psaltoda plaga
120) Polyrhachis aurea [spiny ant]
121) Leptomyrmex tibialis [spider ant]
122) Zosteria rosevillensis [robber fly]
123) Floury Baker, Aleeta curvicosta
124) Jade Hunter, Austrogomphus ochraceus
125) Polyrhachis australis [spiny ant]
126) Purple Crow,
Euploea tulliolus
127) Slender Skimmer,
Orthetrum sabina
128) Southern Meat Ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus
129) Pale Hunter,
Austrogomphus amphiclitus
130) Purple Line-Blue,
Prosotas dubiosa
131) Daemel's Spiny Ant,
Polyrhachis daemeli
132) Black Tree-Ticker,
Birrima varians
133) Green Skimmer,
Orthetrum serapia
134) Graphic Flutterer,
Rhyothemis graphiptera
