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Threadfin Leatherjacket (Arotrolepis filicauda)Observer
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Unknown fish species predated by Crested Tern
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Blue-spotted Hawker (Adversaeschna brevistyla)Observer
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species proposed by iNat's AI
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Sydney Mountain Darner (Austroaeschna obscura)Observer
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ID uncertain, but accept iNat AI's suggestion
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Giant Wood Moth (Endoxyla cinereus)Observer
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My first record of this humungous moth. It looks like it had recently emerged from the chrysalis below and to the left of it and was still drying out its wings.
The bulbous abdomen indicates this is a female.
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Cunningham's Skink (Egernia cunninghami)Observer
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Sunbathing on path side rocks on the sandstone ridge above the Bobbin Head Marina
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Flatwings (Genus Austroargiolestes)Observer
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In a shady gully with running water on the east side of Cremorne Point
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Eastern Blue-tongued Skink (Tiliqua scincoides ssp. scincoides)Observer
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Found at the edge of Dee Why Lagoon
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Bush Rat (Rattus fuscipes)Observer
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This tiny mouse walked around my feet at one of the lookouts at Shelly Beach, Manly in Sydney.
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Skinks (Family Scincidae)Observer
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Unidentified skink loafing about 3m above ground in a scribbly bark Gum.
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Lace Monitor (Varanus varius)Observer
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Startled on a fire trail and ran up a tree. Hopefully this is a straightforward ID and doesn't cause the carnage of my previous post of an Australian lizard.
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Spilarctia subcarneaObserver
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Spilarctia subcarnea
ID per Roger Kendrick