eyes down its back. These two species are not related at all. new maxthrust gliders . It has an extensive distribution in eastern Australia, covering a geographic distance of approximately 3000 km. The breeding season is between June and January. ( The glider occurs in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. Climate Change Fund, Policy Quin D.G. develop a predictive model of Squirrel Glider distribution in Wyong Shire. management, Wildlife Squirrel Gliders are enigmatic animals whose survival is under threat. Their range covers the drier inland slopes of the Great Dividing Range to the coastal areas. Appearance. A sugar glider and a flying squirrel are two completely different species and therefore could not mate and create any viable offspring together. 8.0 Management Intent 11. A monosyllabic or polysyllabic nasal grunt was the most frequent call (56% of 208 calls); it ranged from single calls to sequences of up to 20-min duration (mean 2.1 min ± 0.6, s.e.) 7.0 Research 10. Researchers classify these mammals as marsupials. The sugar glider is a marsupial, most comparable to a kangaroo. climate change, Teach and heritage of NSW, NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, Parks, reserves and Areas of high and medium suitability occur in warmer climates of the coastal plains and are dominated by winter flowering vegetation communities 28, pp. not yet threatened) by the IUCN.[1]. Squirrel Sugar Glider habitats effected by Developers or entities clearing land, are required to be offset by securing biodiversity credits. Blakely's Red Gum - White Box - Yellow Box - Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on clay loam soils on undulating hills of central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Blakely's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple grassy open forest of drainage lines of the northern Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion, Blakely's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine woodland on footslopes of hills in central part of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on flats and hills in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion, Carbeen - White Box +/- Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy tall woodland on basalt hills, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion, Derived Spear Grass - Slender Bamboo Grass mixed tussock grassland mainly of the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion, Derived speargrass - wallaby grass - wire grass mixed forb grassland mainly in the Coonabarabran - Pilliga - Coolah region, Fuzzy Box Woodland on alluvial brown loam soils mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Fuzzy Box woodland on colluvium and alluvial flats in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion (including Pilliga) and Nandewar Bioregion, Grey Box - Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box grassy open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion, Grey Box grassy woodland or open forest of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion, Herbaceous White Box - Apple Box valley woodland of the NSW central western slopes, Long-leaved Box - Red Box grass-shrub open forest on hillslopes in the Mudgee Region, NSW central western slopes, Mugga Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine woodland on hillslopes and ridges of the Central Lachlan region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Forest Red Gum woodland on rocky slopes of the lower Burragorang Gorge, Sydney Basin Bioregion, Nortons Box - Red Box - Red Stringybark +/- Nodding Flax Lily forb-grass open forest mainly on the Tumut region, Queensland Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Rats Tail Grass - spear grass - panic grass derived grassland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion, Red Box - Blakely's Red Gum sedge woodland on colluvial clay drainage lines in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Red Box - White Box +/- Red Stringybark hill woodland in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Red Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum - tea tree herbaceous swampy valley open forest of the southern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Red Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum +/- Long-leaved Box shrub/grass hill woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Red Stringybark - Kurrajong - mixed eucalypt grassy open forest of the Coonabarabran - Gulgong region in the Brigalow Belt South and NSW SWS Bioregion, Riparian Blakely's Red Gum - box - shrub - sedge - grass tall open forest of the central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Rough-Barked Apple - red gum - Yellow Box woodland on alluvial clay to loam soils on valley flats in the northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion, Rough-barked Apple - White Cypress Pine - Blakely's Red Gum riparian open forest / woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion, Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine grassy woodland mainly in the northern Nandewar Bioregion, Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy tall woodland on clay-loam soils on plains in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion, Tumbledown Gum woodland on hills in the northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion, White Box - Black Cypress Pine - red gum +/- Mugga Ironbark shrubby woodland in hills of the NSW central western slopes, White Box - Blakely's Red Gum - Long-leaved Box - Nortons Box - Red Stringybark grass-shrub woodland on shallow soils on hills in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, White Box - Blakely's Red Gum shrub/grass woodland on metamorphic hillslopes in the mid-southern part of the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, White Box - Rough-barked Apple alluvial woodland of the NSW central western slopes including in the Mudgee region, White Box - White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland on mainly clay loam soils on hills mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion, White Box - White Cypress Pine - Western Grey Box shrub/grass/forb woodland in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, White Box grass shrub hill woodland on clay to loam soils on volcanic and sedimentary hills in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion, White Box grassy woodland in the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, White Box grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion, White Box grassy woodland on the Inverell basalts mainly in the Nandewar Bioregion, White Box grassy woodland to open woodland on basalt flats and rises in the Liverpool Plains sub-region, BBS Bioregion, White Cypress Pine - Silver-leaved Ironbark grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion, Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodland of the Nandewar Bioregion, Yellow Box - White Cypress Pine alluvial terrace flats grassy woodland in the Pilliga forests and surrounds, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion, Yellow Box grassy tall woodland on alluvium or parna loams and clays on flats in NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Coastal headland heaths of the NSW North Coast Bioregion, Coastal mallee of the NSW North Coast Bioregion, Coastal heath on sands of the NSW North Coast Bioregion, Hairpin Banksia - Slender Tea-tree heath on coastal sandstone plateaux, Sydney Basin Bioregion, Scribbly Gum - Hairpin Banksia - Dwarf Apple heathy woodland on hinterland sandstone plateaux of the Central Coast, Sydney Basin Bioregion, Banksia - Red Bloodwood - Hard-leaved Scribbly Gum heathy open woodland on sandstone plateaux, southern Sydney Basin Bioregion, Banksia dry shrubland on coastal sands of the NSW North Coast Bioregion, Black Box - Lignum woodland wetland of the inner floodplains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion), Black Box grassy open woodland wetland of rarely flooded depressions in south western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion), Dwyer's Red Gum - Currawang grassy low woodland of the central western plains of NSW, Mugga Ironbark -Tumbledown Red Gum - Red Box - Black Cypress Pine open forest on shallow stony soils on hills in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Red Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Red Ironbark - Red Stringybark - Tumbledown Gum heath low woodland on ridges, central NSW South Western Slopes, Tick Bush - Drooping She Oak tall shrubland on granite hills of the NSW central western slopes, Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Red Stringybark woodland on rocky hills in the NSW central western slopes, Yellow Box - White Cypress Pine grassy woodland on deep sandy-loam alluvial soils of the eastern Riverina Bioregion and western NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion, Blackbutt - Rough-barked Apple - Turpentine - ferny tall open forest of the Central Coast, Blackbutt - Tallowwood dry grassy open forest of the central parts NSW North Coast Bioregion, Blackbutt - Turpentine open forest of the foothills of the NSW North Coast Bioregion, Blackbutt grassy open forest of the lower Clarence Valley of the NSW North Coast Bioregion, Pink Bloodwood - Thin-leaved Stringybark - Grey Ironbark shrub - grass open forest on ranges of the lower North Coast, Red Mahogany open forest of the coastal lowlands of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and northern Sydney Basin Bioregion, Rough-barked Apple - Grey Gum grassy open forest of the hinterland hills of the Central Coast, Sydney Basin Bioregion, Small-fruited Grey Gum - Turpentine - Tallowwood moist open forest on foothills of the lower North Coast, Tallowwood - Small-fruited Grey Gum - Kangaroo Grass grassy tall open forest on foothills of the lower North Coast, Tallowwood - Small-fruited Grey Gum dry grassy open forest of the foothills of the NSW North Coast, Tallowwood - Smooth-barked Apple - Blackbutt grass tall open forest of the Central and lower North Coast, Tallowwood open forest of the coastal ranges of the NSW North Coast Bioregion, Dorrigo White Gum open forest of the escarpment ranges of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion, Messmate - Silvertop Stringybark - Tussock Grass shrub - grass open forest of western Barrington Tops, Mountain Ribbon Gum - Messmate open forest of escarpment ranges of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion, New England Blackbutt - Tallowwood grassy forest of escarpment ranges of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion, Round-leaved Gum tall open forest of the eastern New England Tableland Bioregion, Silvertop Stringybark - Messmate - Sydney Blue Gum moist shrub-grass tall open forest on ranges of the lower North Coast, Silvertop Stringybark - Tallowwood open forest of the escarpment ranges of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion, Snow Gum - Mountain Gum - Mountain Ribbon Gum open forest on ranges of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and eastern New England Tableland Bioregion, Sydney Blue Gum - Silvertop Stringybark grassy open forest on ranges of the lower North Coast, Coast Grey Box - Mountain Grey Gum - stringybark moist shrubby open forest in coastal gullies, southern South East Corner Bioregion, Red Bloodwood - Blackbutt - Spotted Gum shrubby open forest on coastal foothills, southern Sydney Basin Bioregion, Spotted Gum - Blackbutt shrubby open forest on the coastal foothills, southern Sydney Basin Bioregion and northern South East Corner Bioregion, Spotted Gum - Grey Ironbark - Woollybutt grassy open forest on coastal flats, southern Sydney Basin Bioregion and South East Corner Bioregion, Spotted Gum - White Stringybark - Burrawang shrubby open forest on hinterland foothills, northern South East Corner Bioregion, Turpentine - Red Bloodwood - Sydney Peppermint shrubby open forest on the foothills, southern Sydney Basin Bioregion and northern South East Corner Bioregion, Deane's Gum - Mountain Grey Gum - Turpentine tall moist forest on shale, Sydney Basin Bioregion, Mountain Gum - Manna Gum open forest of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion, Peppermint - Mountain Gum - Brown Barrel moist open forest of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion, Snow Gum - Mountain Gum tussock grass-herb forest of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion, Blackbutt - Narrow-leaved White Mahogany shrubby tall open forest of coastal ranges, northern Sydney Basin Bioregion, Blackbutt - Pink Bloodwood shrubby open forest of the coastal lowlands of the NSW North Coast Bioregion, Blackbutt - Turpentine - Sydney Blue Gum mesic tall open forest on ranges of the Central Coast, Blackbutt - Turpentine - Tallowwood shrubby open forest of the coastal foothills of the central NSW North Coast Bioregion, Blackbutt tall moist forest of the coastal ranges of the central and southern NSW North Coast Bioregion, Pink Bloodwood - Tallowwood moist open forest of the far northern ranges of the NSW North Coast Bioregion, Smooth-barked Apple - Turpentine - Blackbutt open forest on ranges of the Central Coast, Spotted Gum - Grey Ironbark shrubby open forest of the Richmond Range of the NSW North Coast, Sydney Blue Gum - Deane's Gum - River Peppermint shrubby riparian tall forest of the lower Colo River, Sydney Basin Bioregion, Sydney Blue Gum open forest on coastal foothills and escarpment of the North Coast, Turpentine - Smooth-barked Apple moist shrubby forest of the lower Blue Mountains, Sydney Basin Bioregion, Silvertop Stringybark - Round-leaved Gum open forest of the tableland edge of the New England Tableland Bioregion and NSW North Coast Bioregion, Narrow-leaved Peppermint - Sydney Peppermint - Brown Barrel tall fern forest in the Southern Highlands, Sydney Basin Bioregion, Narrow-leaved Peppermint - Sydney Peppermint - Gully Gum open forest/woodland in the Southern Highlands, Sydney Basin Bioregion, Sydney Peppermint - White Stringybark moist shrubby forest on elevated ridges, Sydney Basin Bioregion. 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