Black flying fox  (Pteropus alecto)

Range

Found in coastal and near-coastal areas across northern, eastern and western Australia, as well as in southern Papua New Guinea and Nusa Tenggara and Sulawesi in Indonesia (5) (6).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

Large colonies or ‘camps’ roost in trees in bamboo, rainforest, eucalyptus open forest, savannah woodland, and mangrove or paperbark swamps (6) (9). There have also been a few known roosting sites in caves and overhangs, but this is very rare (9).

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