tiabunna's photos with the keyword: Pteropus poliocephalus

These are Grey-headed Flying Foxes. Despite the name, these are actually fruit bats and live on nectar and fruits. They are Australia's largest bats, with a wingspan of about a metre. They are classed as endangered but this year the local colony (right in the middle of town) has grown to about 100,000 - which does create more than a few problems! For an idea of what that means, multiply the image in the note by about 1000 to account for the surrounding area.

This is a Grey-headed Flying Fox. Despite the name, these are actually fruit bats and live on nectar and fruits. They are Australia's largest bats, with a wingspan of about a metre (see note). They are classed as endangered but this year the local colony (right in the middle of town) has grown to about 100,000 - which does create more than a few problems! Better viewed large. I live in Batemans Bay and there are suggestions it should now be renamed "Batman's Bay". :-) Which leads to the obvious musical link.

Some of the stream of many hundreds of Grey Headed Flying Foxes (fruit bats) that cross our sky each summer evening in late dusk, heading out searching for their food of fruit and nectar. During the day they roost in a large colony some kilometers away. Notes show the colony in daytime and one of the bats 'relocating' itself during the day. Explored