Tiliqua rugosa
6 Shingleback Lizard at Yass River, NSW
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| Tiliqua rugosa | wombey | 28 Sep 2019 | |
| Tiliqua rugosa | SueMcIntyre | 27 Sep 2019 |
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Caught eating flowers of the rare Leptorhynchos elongatus. Who gets priority?
3 comments
30 Sep 2019
Shinglebacks find yellow flowers of many native species very appealing to eat. They also very much like to eat the flowers of weeds such as capeweed and dandelion (who gets priority?). Cheers Will
1 Oct 2019
Will - This year, the shingleback does, as there are so few flowers. In other years, when I have found them scoffing my yam daisies, I have got very twitchy. Have you seen them eating Hypochoeris? I haven't, but I would be very grateful if they did. Sue.
1 Oct 2019
Hi Sue - I am not sure if I have seen shinglebacks eating Hypochoeris (it may have been Taraxacum). Sorry to not be more helpful. I am really interested in this possibility of impact on some of the asteraceae species. Shinglebacks have a bit of a hard time from domestic dogs and there have been some very mysterious deaths of shinglebacks in the Majura reserve that have come to light from several regular reporters on the nature map site. Will.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.211101-34.975862
- Maps Gang Gang at Yass River
- Places Yass River, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 22 Sep 2019 01:15 PM Recorded on
- SueMcIntyre Recorded by
- Unknown Gender
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Species information
- Tiliqua rugosa Scientific name
- Shingleback Lizard Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 888.04m Recorded at altitude
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