Flying Fox Resources

Here are a few resources to get you started on some further research.

INTERNET LINKS

The Action Plan for Australian Bats produced by Environment Australia (includes a recovery plan for the Grey-headed flying fox)
The Australian Tropical Research Foundation (AUSTROP) has an excellent page about flying fox issues.
The effects of culling the flying foxes, Pteropus conspicillatus in northern Queensland, and Pteropus poliocephalus in Victoria, NSW and southeast Queensland. http://www.austrop.org.au/ghff/FFreport.htm by Dr Len .Martin, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The University of Queensland and Allen McIlwee, School of Tropical Biology James Cook University

BOOKS

Australian Bats, Churchill Sue. New Holland Publishers, Australia, 1998.
Flying Foxes: Fruit and Blossom Bats of Australia, Leslie Hall & Greg Richards. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2000.