Honey Possum, Noolbenger Brushtail Possum Status: Not endangered Size: 40 - 95 cm long Western Ring Tail Possum Status: Priority 3 fauna Western Pygmy Possum, Mundarda About: Mouse sized tree- Status: Vulnerable Size: About the size of a cat but dwelling marsupial with a brush- Size: 30 - 35 cm, long plus tail Status: Not threatened with a much longer tail tipped tongue but is not really a = 60 - 70 cm long Size: Mouse sized tree-dwelling About: Nocturnal cat sized tree- possum. Is found only in the About: Rabbit sized tree- marsupial with a strong dwelling marsupial lives in tree southwest of Western Australia dwelling marsupial able to prehensile scaled tail. hollows and dense undergrowth. It where there is a high diversity of survive well with humans. It About: Can lower their body is common throughout Australia. flowering plants. Identified by has a long white-tipped temperature for up to 11 days. Can live up to 15 years. central dark stripe flanked by prehensile tail that can be used Nocturnal and frequently taken Frequently cohabits with humans. paler bands on its back to carry nesting material as by feral cats. Diet: Eats mainly leaves of native Diet: Needs native flowers all well as to grip branches. Diet: Nectar, pollen, seeds and trees, fruits, blossoms, grass and year round as the diet is entirely Diet: Primarily eats leaves insects. insects. made up of nectar from flowers. supplemented by flowers, Trichosurus vulpecula Have a preference for banksias, fruits, nectar and shoots. Cercartetus concinnus dryandras, grevilleas and hakeas. Pseudocheirus occidentalis Tarsipes spencerae

Brushtail Phascogale Status: In decline, Priority 3 fauna Size: 40 cm including tail Quenda About: Nocturnal. Has large Status: Priority 4 fauna furless ears and builds nests in Native Fauna tree hollows. The males die Size: Rabbit sized marsupial with a short tail. About: Nocturnal but can be active during the shortly after mating and the day. young are raised by the female. Diet: Omnivorous diet includes earthworms, Diet: Carnivorous, eats insects, beetles, underground fungi and other plant spiders and ants found on material and small vertebrates. Capable of trunks and branches of fallen high reproductive rate in favourable trees. conditions. Species of the Phascogale tapoatafa Isoodon obesulus Western Quoll, Chuditch Status: Vulnerable, rare and endangered Woylie Size: 35 cm, plus tail = 65 cm long Status: Priority 4 listed, vulnerable to foxes About: Survives today only in a Size: 60 - 74cm Perth Hills restricted habitat area of forest or dry About: Rabbit sized kangaroo-like marsupial with strong, woodland living in hollow logs. clawed forefeet used for digging and a prehensile tail for Diet: Carnivorous, solitary marsupial, gathering nesting materials. eating small vertebrates up to the size Diet: Fruiting bodies from underground fungi are of a rabbit. considered to be the major food source but also east bulbs, Dasyurus geoffroii tubers, seeds and insects. Woylies do not eat any green plant material. They do not need to drink as it obtains all Fat-tailed Dunnart its water from its food. Status: Common Bettongia penicillata Size: 6-9cm About: Nocturnal, resting in hollows during the day. During autumn and Echidna winter groups will huddle together to Status: Common keep warm. Size: 30 - 45 cm long Diet: Mainly insects and spiders. Do About: One of few egg-laying not need to drink as it obtains all its mammals. Has short spines on its back, water from its food. tubular snout and long sticky tongue. Sminthopsis crassicaudata Diet: Termites, ants, worms and other Ash Grey Mouse invertebrates which are dug up with the Western Grey Kangaroo forefeet. Excellent for controlling Status: Vulnerable to land Status: termites. clearing Abundant Size: 8.5 - 1.15 cm Size: 1.4 to2.4 Tachyglossus aculeatus About: Nocturnal and sociable, metres tunneling into the sand to about including tail one metre below the surface. About: Most Legend: Diet: Seeds, green vegetation, prehensile - able to grasp things Yellow-footed Antechinus, Mardo active in the carnivorous - eats meat lichen and insects. Does not need Status: Abundant late afternoon nocturnal - most active at night to drink as it obtains all its water and early marsupial - carries its young in a pouch Size: Mouse-sized carnivorous from its food. omnivorous - eats meat and vegetable matter marsupial morning. About: Makes a nest in hollow logs. Diet: Grazes on Status: Pseudomys alborcinereus native grasses, Endangered Young cling to the mother's back. Vulnerable Males die after breeding. herbs and Priority 1 - few, poorly known populations on Diet: Omnivorous, eating insects, shrubs. threatened lands Priority 2 - few, poorly known populations on invertebrates, vertebrates, flowers and conservation lands nectar. Macropus fuliginosus ocydromus Priority 3 - several, poorly known populations Poster supported by the Shire's Environmental Advisory Committee Antechinus flavipes some on conservation lands Photos courtesy of Eric McCrumb Priority 4 - taxa in need of monitoring