Sunday, September 5, 2010

Confirmed sighting of Humpback Whale and Eastern Grey Squirrel in Ringwood

Museum Victoria has a BioInformatics site at http://museumvictoria.museum/bioinformatics/

If you click on 'Mammals' you get to a very impressive web page.

Now go to the bottom right corner and under 'Map searches in Victoria' click on 'Compare'...

I chose regions 8623 'Bendoc' and 7922 'Ringwood' and discovered that not only had there been confirmed sightings of the Humpback Whale, Bottlenose Dolphin and Southern Bottlenose Whale, but also the Spot-tailed Quoll, the Brush-tailed Phascogale, Fat-tailed Marsupial Mouse, Eastern Pygmy-possum, New Zealand Fur Seal and also the Eastern Grey Squirrel, but sadly not the Long-footed Potoroo. See the Biodiversity report ...

http://flyaqis.museum.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/texhtml?form=bio_mammalp2.sum&qrybutt=mammals&qrymaploc=v8623&&qrymaploc=v7922

Admittedly, the page is maintained by DNRE which was disbanded in 2002 but even so...

Where does this information come from and more importantly, where does it go?

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