It was good to see 30 or so delegates arrive at the glider workshop in Beaudesert in February 2014, and many of these gave information on having see gliders or signed up for further information

If you missed this event (or if you attended but would like some reminders)  you can download the presentation here:

glider_presentation_Feb2014 (1.5mb pdf ) – includes:

• gliders of the Scenic Rim and elsewhere,
• what they eat (and what we don’t yet know),
• what habitats they prefer (and what we don’t yet know),
• how to identify them,
• what parts of the Scenic Rim have they been found in (and what we don’t yet know), and
• how you can be involved in surveys

(photos by Ronda Green unless taken from the WPSQ Glider Network site with acknowledgement: quality lowered slightly to reduce file size)

Martin Fingland of Geckos Wildlife brought a sugar glider and a squirrel glider to show us (he would have brought a greater glider as well but the recent heatwave seemed to be making it uncomfortable):

Squirrel glider eating a mealworm – they are the most insectivorous of our gliders

Squirrel glider showing the very bushy tail

Sugar glider, showing the snub nose (compare with squirrel glider’s slightly longer nose)

Sugar glider showing white tail tip (only some sugar gliders have this, but squirrel gliders never do)

the gliding membrane

Martin also showed us some other animals of the night:

Spotted-tailed quoll, Australia’s largest mainland marsupial predator, still living in the Scenic Rim but rarely encountered

small-eared possum (formerly known as bobuck or mountain brushtail)

Common ringtail possum

dunnart – a tiny carnivorous marsupial related to the quoll

Many thanks to all who spent the afternoon with us. We hope to see you again at future workshops and surveys, or to hear where you have seen gliders and other creatures