Varanus varius
1 Lace Monitor at Burra Creek, NSW
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| Varanus varius | wombey | 15 Oct 2023 | |
| Varanus varius | CarbonAI | 15 Oct 2023 | |
| Unverified | SuePolsen | 15 Oct 2023 |
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Significant sighting
MichaelMulvaney noted:
16 Oct 2023
Recent sightings of Lace Monitors on teh south-west slopes are uncommon
3 comments
16 Oct 2023
Well… I can assure they are common here… I have witnessed 3 of them at once ! One was up the tree and two were making there up to it… I’m thinking female in tree and male suitors in the way up to court her???
Or all males going to have a punch up!!😂
Or all males going to have a punch up!!😂
16 Oct 2023
Yr lucky. Here are the factors that would help you maintain that abundance in the future: 1) Long intervals between big hot fires (so populations can breed up again before the next big hot fire, bearing in mind that large species of goannas may need to be ~5yo before they even start breeding); 2) very low predation rate by foxes; 3) plentiful food (large invertebrates such as grasshoppers, and small vertebrates including skinks, dragons, snakes, nestling birds, rats, mice, dunnarts, Antechinus, and rabbits); and 4) sufficient termite mounds of suitable type and location (Nasutitermes exitiosus, i.e. 'gluegun termite', mounds on NW to NE facing slopes near good vegetation cover OR huge arboreal termite nests.
16 Oct 2023
Thanks for that…. We have plenty of what floats their boat out here. They are always seen out and about… loving life.
Location information
- Places Burra Creek, NSW
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- SuePolsen Recorded by
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- Photographic Competition - image of greatest conservation significance Significant SuePolsen Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Varanus varius Monitors & Geckos Reptiles and Frogs
Species information
- Varanus varius Scientific name
- Lace Monitor Common name
- Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 798.6m Recorded at altitude
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