Grey-headed flying-fox population is stable – 10 years of monitoring reveals this threatened species is doing well
- Written by Eric Vanderduys, Research Scientist, Field Ecology, CSIRO
Flying foxes, or fruit bats, are familiar to many Australians. So it may come as a surprise to learn two of the four mainland species, both grey-headed and spectacled flying foxes, are threatened with extinction.
But our decade-long survey of one of these species – the grey-headed flying fox – brings some encouraging...