3 Heath or Rosenberg's Monitor at Peak View, NSW
Identification history
| Varanus rosenbergi | 12 Nov 2021 | DonFletcher | ||
| Varanus rosenbergi | 12 Nov 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 12 Nov 2021 | forest17178 |
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Significant sighting
User's notes
Rosenberg’ Goanna, opportunistic sighting in Peak View area in dry sclerophyll forest burnt in the 2019-20 bushfires.
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DonFletcher
wrote:
12 Nov 2021
Hi Forest, thanks for the record. There are relatively few records of this species from NSW in your area. This species digs long burrows which are used at night in the active season, and continually for half the year. When danger threatens they retreat to one of their burrows or just to a shallow 'bolt hole'. Most burrows are impregnable to fire, foxes or dingoes, so RG populations tend not to be as badly reduced by bushfires as those of surface dwelling animals and tree hole dwellers.
Location information
- Places Peak View, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 11 Nov 2021 01:10 PM Recorded on
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- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Varanus rosenbergi Scientific name
- Heath or Rosenberg's Monitor Common name
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- Non-Invasive
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