Gliders

Add a sighting Subscribe View significant View unverified

Gliders

Moderators

Liam.m

PatrickCampbell

CarbonAI

MartinPredavec

Wildlifewarrior80

become a moderator

Hello NatureMaprsAs we move into the cooler months and sighting counts begin to wind down our team has been working tirelessly to ensure our platform’s usability and performance. All merch has been po...

Improvements to data import tool (coming soon)

NatureMapr welcomes Edgar McNamara

Platform wide attribute changes

New Feature: Moderator Quick Responses!

Discussion

MartinPredavec wrote:

51 min ago

Hi @DonFletcher . Good question. How confident am I? I would say ‘not very’ and less so given your comment about the number in the region. I think sugar(Krefft's)/squirrel gliders are difficult to ID through photographs, particularly casual photographs (i.e. not photographing particular ID features). I agreed with the ID partly through “gestalt” - its size, large ears, bushy tail at the base, colouration. The CarbonAI ID might have pushed me in one direction.

Given this interesting observation, I think a few further questions for @Dron might help.

@Dron can you please provide some further details.

1. Can you give some dimensions for the trap. Length, width, height.
2. Did you notice anything about the tail. Length relative to body, colouration (particulalry at the tip), width at the body.
3. Colour of the underside of the animal.

Best wishes,
Martin

Petaurus norfolcensis

DonFletcher wrote:

3 hrs ago

Hi @MartinPredavec, There is a small but growing collection of norfolcensis records in the region and this is one of the first with a photo backing it. There are no reliable specimen backed records as far as I can tell and none for which the critical measurements have been taken. (Two old specimens at the Australian Museum from 'Queanbeyan' turn out to have been posted there from an unknown source location. People are very motivated to find them (rather than notatus/breviceps). There have been quite a few proposed that I said were 'only' notatus. This one looks a bit more likely, but its posture in the trap does not help. Anyway the key question is how confident are you that this is norfolcensis?

Petaurus norfolcensis

JoelStibbardBCT wrote:

13 May 2025

This one looks to be a feathertail glider

Acrobates pygmaeus

DonFletcher wrote:

12 May 2025

Hi TS, thanks for your sighting. The media you provided is missing or unclear. To help us verify this sighting, please provide additional media.

Petaurus notatus

DonFletcher wrote:

4 Apr 2025

Hi Frecko, fair enough. Based on that explanation I will verify your record.

Petaurus norfolcensis

Gliders

Gliders

Moderators

Announcements

Discussion

Species Richness Score (SRS)

Top contributors

Top moderators