The distribution and abundance of the burrowing bettong (Marsupialia : Macropoidea)

• Main Authors: Short, J., Turner, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CSIRO Publishing 1993
• Subjects: Four Islands; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/8098/

The burrowing buttong (Bettongia lesueur) has been extinct on mainland Australia since the early 1960s, but was believed to persist on four islands off the coast of Western Australia-Bernier, Dorre, Barrow and Boodie. We surveyed these islands in 1988-89 to ascertain the status of bettongs and other...