Highslide for Wordpress Plugin
Plot 3 - © Nicolas Rakotopare 2010 Broad

Lake Broadwater – Conservation Biology Field Trip

I spent 4 days in Lake Broadwater Conservation Park (Queensland) as part of my conservation biology course (I wrote an article about this place before, click here to see it). I got some cool shots from amazing wildlife. Let’s start with the creepy crawlies and apparently we pitched our tents next to a bull ants but we never found it.

J’ai passé 4jours au Lake Broadwater Conservation Park (Queensland) dans le cadre de mon cours de biologie de conservation.J’ai déjà écrit un article sur ce parc ici :  http://www.lerako.net/blog/2010/08/30/lake-broadwater-wildlife/ . j’ai pu faire des images sympas. On va démarrer avec les insectes :

Red bull ant (Myrmecia gulosa)

This beetle was really noisy and quite strong. Ce scarabé était tres bruyant et costaud.

Here is a video that shows the beetle in action (Thank you Maanav for the perfect lightning :)) and a Trap Door Spider. Voila une vidéo du coleoptere en question ainsi que d’une araignée pas commune ;)

This moth was sitting on the car and I wanted something with the reflection. To get more colour I bounced my flash off a camping bag at the back. Ce papillon de nuit était posé sur la voiture. j’ai tenté d’inclure la reflection et de changer le fond en utilsant mon 430ex sur un sac de camping.

It was her last flight I guess.

The weather was changing quickly and this is part of the MASSIVE flash shower that ruined my tent (and induced a ground based sleep for the rest of the trip). Le temps était assez changeant et ces images font parties de la mini tempete qu’on s’est pris pendant 2h et qui a coulé ma tente.

Hoplocephalus bitorquatus or Pale Headed Snake. This is a threatened species that we surveyed for around the lake one night. It’s thought to be the largest population of this species in Australia (estimates are around 35 individuals). More information here). Hoplocephalus bitorquatus ou le serpent a tete pale est une des especes menacees qu’on a activement recherché une nuit aux alentours du lac. Il se peut que cette population soit la plus large d’Australie et on l’estime a seuleument 35 individus.

A young bearded dragon (Pogona barbata) that we brought back to camp for observation.

A species I had not photographed before, the sand monitor (Varanus gouldii). He was hidden in his tree and the light was quite low. I had to shoot at 1600isos and I’m quite happy with the result. Une espece que je n’avais jamais photographié encore, le Varan de Gould (Varanus gouldii). Il etait dans son tronc et la lumiere etait faible mais les 1600 isos ne s’en sont pas trop mal sorti.

A schingelback (Tiliqua rugosa aspera) sun baking on the side of the road.

A pobblebonk: a fat and cute colourful frog.

Little red neck wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) grazing peacefully.

A legless lizard (Lialis burtonis)

This place is a little wildlife heaven. Sadly on the tuesday morning the Dalby Herald had a headline about the first cane toad found in Dalby, and that means 20km away from the lake. It’s really sad as it’s arrival will have a negative impact on this ecosystem and there is nothing we can do to stop that besides doing biodiversity assessment now , observe the change and try to use this data to learn and reduce impacts somewhere else.

Cet endroit est un petit paradis. Tristement mardi matin le Dalby Herald titrait “le 1er cane toad trouvé a Dalby” ce qui veut dire qu’ils sont a 20km du parc. C’est réellement triste car son arrivée va y avoir un impact négatif et on ne peut rien faire pour l’empêcher. Le mieux que l’on puisse faire c’est accumuler toutes les données possible, observer la degradation et tenter d’appliquer ca pour aider d’autres potentielles cibles.

3 Trackbacks

  1. By Currawynia National Park, Queensland on 18 Oct ’10 at 10:16 pm

    [...] Images from the world Skip to content HomeAboutVideo ← © 2010 rqko. All rights [...]

  2. By Bowra Field Trip on 8 Oct ’11 at 12:51 am

    [...] start with the birds. I’ve seen emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) before in Currawynia and Lake Broadwater but not that many which finally enabled me to get a picture of them that I like. I don’t know [...]

  3. By Carnarvon Gorge Wilderness on 17 Jan ’12 at 9:51 am

    [...] news Canon G1X, with the larger sensor ! We spent the last night of the trip in Lake Broadwater (older pictures here : Lake Broadwater). I’ve never seen it that [...]

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>