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Insufficient or inconclusive evidence	MichaelMulvaney	24 Apr 2022
Unverified	heatherb1997	21 Apr 2022

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Cork tile is 30x30 cm for reference

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DonFletcher

21 Apr 2022

Hi Heather, Small mammal researchers normally use a white flash camera, because ID is often impossible from monochrome images. But there are not so many white flash units around in the research community that a PhD student finds it easy to borrow a kit of those.

If your field work is continuing in future seasons, and if ID of small mammal species is important to the research goals, is it possible to get your hands on a camera model that takes sharper, clearer night images, like the latest model of Reconyx (HP2X)? But the cost, the cost, I know. Alternatively could you get a second camera of similar type to the one you are using which looks across the tile?

DonFletcher

21 Apr 2022

I find this one really hard. There seem to be at least three possibilities, A. agilis, A. mimetes and Mus. But I confess that I struggle even to completely rule out a juvenile Rattus (R. fuscipes or R. rattus). The habitat MAY indicate against mimetes if it is dry and open although I see there is a creek line nearby so maybe the habitat does not help.

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