Friday, October 9, 2009

Koolan Island

I just got back from a week long fauna survey on Koolan Island, it's located about 130 km north of Derby in the Kimberley region. A fantastic place. A 10 km long sandstone and iron ore island in a aqua coloured sea, surrounded by dozens more orange-red islands.




It was a fairly small survey area, but we still managed to trap and record over 40 local species of animals. Thanks to Jess, one of the minesite environmental officers, these are a couple of photos of a really nice speciemen of a Ctenotus inornatus.



These skinks are found over most of the Kimberley region and were the most common large skinks on Koolan Island.
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4 comments:

  1. Andor MartonOctober 10, 2009 at 5:44 AM

    What a cute and handsome little creature'

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  2. WilmaOctober 10, 2009 at 8:42 AM

    such beautiful details.

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  3. MadibirderOctober 10, 2009 at 4:00 PM

    Beautiful skin colour & markings

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  4. Stuart PriceOctober 15, 2009 at 10:56 PM

    Those skinks look cuter than some of the other critters you've been picking up recently.......

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