What is this <span class="highlight">lizard</span>

Submitted: Friday, Oct 03, 2008 at 21:09
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Just read post, 62177, so hoping that someone can tell me what this lizard is.

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Thanks and I will be looking out for the book mentioned on the previous post.

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Reply By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Friday, Oct 03, 2008 at 21:40

Friday, Oct 03, 2008 at 21:40
Gidgee Skink - Egernia stokesii . On the map it looks like it ranges through the Simpson and Gibson Deserts and a pocket on the WA coast and coastal islands . Eats insects and fruit etc.

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Follow Up By: Member - Prickle (SA) - Friday, Oct 03, 2008 at 22:00

Friday, Oct 03, 2008 at 22:00
Thanks Willie, when you say "on the map" are yoiu referring to a particular book or publication?
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:40

Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:40
Prickle ,

I usually take a number of fileld guides away with me in my car - birds , reptiles , mammals and native plants .

The reptile one is :
"Australian Retiles and Amphibians" by Leonard Cronin
ISBN 0 85881 186 3 (quote this number when ordering)

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Follow Up By: Member - Prickle (SA) - Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:37

Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:37
Willie,
Thanks.

I take my bird guide, Simpson & Day, Fiedl Guide to the Birds of Australia and recently purchased Plants of Outback SA by Kutsche and Lay.

What other plant books do you have that may be of interest to me?
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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 14:35

Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 14:35
Prickle ,

Here is a list of books I use :

"Australian Freshwater Life" W.D.Williams . ISBN 0 333 29894 0
"Mammal Tracks and Signs" Barbara Triggs . ISBN 0 19 554429 3
"The Slater Field Guide to Aust.Birds" Peter Slater . ISBN 0 94711699 0
"Field Guide to the Birds of Aust" Simpson & Day . ISBN 0 670 04180 7
"Australian Retiles and Amphibians" Leonard Cronin ISBN 0 85881 186 3 .
"A Field Guide to Mammals of Aust" Peter Menkhorst & Frank Knight . ISBN 0 19 550870 X
"Australian Mammals" Leonard Cronin . ISBN 0 85881 172 3
"A field Guide to Frogs of Aust" Martyn Robinson . ISBN 1 876334 83 5 .
"Eucalyptus - An Illustrated Guide to Identification" Ian Brooker & David Kleinig . ISBN 1 876334 36 3
"Key Guide to Aust.Palms & fernsand Allies"Leonard Cronin . ISBN 0 7301 02157
"A Guide to Plants of Inland Aust" Philip Moore . ISBN 1 876334 86 X
"Plants of the Kimberley region of WA" R.J.Petheram & E Bartlett-Torr . ISBN 1 920694 04 8
"Wildflowers & Plants of Inland Aust." Anne Urban . ISBN 0 94931803 5
"A Field Guide to Aust Trees" Ivan Holliday. ISBN 0 947334 08 4
"A Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney". Les Robinson . ISBN 0 86417 192 7

I take the relevant ones for most trips .

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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 16:23

Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 16:23
Gee Willie - You'll have to get a bigger Bushtracker to carry that reference library!

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Follow Up By: Member - Willie , Sydney. - Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 16:35

Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 16:35
Oops - I am actually interested in downgrading to a 14' if I can ever get hold of one .

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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 17:26

Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 17:26
Hi Willie

I just sent you an email, but forgot to sign it 'Mrs Hen' - watch for it, just in case you don't know who it is from.

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Follow Up By: Member - Prickle (SA) - Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 19:35

Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 19:35
Willie,

Thanks for sharing, I'll work my way through the list and who knows, the may be a Xmas present or two amoungst them.

Thanks again.
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Reply By: Motherhen - Friday, Oct 03, 2008 at 22:11

Friday, Oct 03, 2008 at 22:11
Hi Russ

Isn't it great how quickly we can get reptiles identified on the forum?

When i purchased the book Greg mentioned, there were a number of books which seemed equally as comprehensive. I choose the Wilson and Swan because it had the most on scale patterns - the only way to really identify snakes. When i was little, I got a book by L Glauert, L: A Hand-book of the Snakes of Western Australia. I have since lost this - it had just the best infomation of identifying snakes by scalation and by bite marks. Published in the 1950s, many more snakes have since been discovered in WA, but it was still such a good reference book i am sorry it disappeared.

Your Gidgee skink is so cute.

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Follow Up By: Member - Prickle (SA) - Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 19:39

Saturday, Oct 04, 2008 at 19:39
Motherhen,

This site is certainly a great resource for a range of interests.

I'll keep your choice in mind when looking.

Thanks for your reponse.
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Reply By: CRD-01 - Monday, Nov 03, 2008 at 18:28

Monday, Nov 03, 2008 at 18:28
I was in the Flinders Rangers recently. I was visiting some old ruins, where I saw a pair of these gidgee skinks. I took a couple of photos. I also had no idea what they were.

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