Quolls are indigenous to mainland Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania. The six species were once widely distributed across the three land masses, but are now restricted to only a few areas. Although primarily ground-dwelling, the genus has developed secondary arboreal characteristics. Each species of quoll lives in distinct geographical areas. The tiger quoll and eastern quoll are exclusively mesic zone species, that is they inhabit moister habitats. The western quoll also inhabits mesic habitat, but has adapted to arid regions across inland Australia, while the northern quoll inhabits tropical habitat of high rainfall.
Distribution and habitat
Quoll
Quoll | Distribution and habitat
Each species of quoll lives in distinct geographical areas. Mainland Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania. Mainland Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania. Quolls are indigenous to mainland Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania
what is quoll?
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They  are carnivorous marsupials.
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where are they found?
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Australia and New Guinea
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where did the latter get it's name from?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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what kind of people are seen here?
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The island is presently populated by almost a thousand different tribal groups
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what does the animal we talked about feed on?
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The smaller ones primarily eat insects, birds, frogs, lizards and fruit; the larger species eat birds, reptiles, and mammals, including echidnas and possums.
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where does it live?
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However, they prefer dry grassland and forest mosaics, bounded by agricultural land, particularly where pasture grubs are common.
Eastern quoll | Distribution and habitat
Quolls are indigenous to mainland Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania. The six species were once widely distributed across the three land masses, but are now restricted to only a few areas. Although primarily ground-dwelling, the genus has developed secondary arboreal characteristics. Each species of quoll lives in distinct geographical areas. The tiger quoll and eastern quoll are exclusively mesic zone species, that is they inhabit moister habitats. The western quoll also inhabits mesic habitat, but has adapted to arid regions across inland Australia, while the northern quoll inhabits tropical habitat of high rainfall.
Quoll | Distribution and habitat
Once found across 70% of the Australian continent, the western quoll is now confined to south-western corner of Western Australia. This perhaps was due to European settlement in the late 1780s as their range dramatically declined after this event. It currently inhabits wet and dry sclerophyll forests, including contiguous Jarrah Forest and mallee. These areas consist of open forest, low open forest, woodland, and open shrub. On occasion they are recorded in the WA Wheatbelt and Goldfields regions, and by the 1930s disappeared completely from Swan Coastal Plain and surrounds. As a result of its carnivorous feeding habits, the western quoll has a large home range.
Western quoll | Habitat
The northern quoll occurs from the Pilbara region of Western Australia across the Northern Territory to south east Queensland. Their historical range extended uninterrupted from S.E Queensland to the Kimberleys in Western Australia. There are several disjunct populations. This quoll species is most abundant in rocky ranges and open eucalypt forest.
Northern quoll | Range and habitat
The eastern quoll was formerly found across much of southeastern mainland Australia, from the eastern coasts of South Australia, through most of Victoria, to the mid-north coast of New South Wales. The species was formerly abundant around Adelaide, particularly the Adelaide Hills, with a 1923 newspaper article noting its rapid decline and presumed extinction in the area during the preceding ten years. It likely became functionally extinct in the early 1960s on mainland Australia, but remains widespread in Tasmania, and is also found today on Bruny Island. Within Tasmania, eastern quolls inhabit rainforest, heathland, alpine areas, and scrub below .
Eastern quoll | Distribution and habitat
These territories often share rock ledges and other open spaces. This serves to mark territory and for other social functions. Males spread out over about 15 square kilometres and typically overlap with several female ranges, about three to four square kilometres each. Although males share their large territories with smaller female territories, females do not cross theirs with other females. Most female home ranges contains around 70 hollow log dens and 110 burrows.
Western quoll | Habitat
Quolls feed on a large range of prey, including birds, rats, other marsupials, small reptiles, and insects. They are reported to feed on prey larger than themselves. They are good climbers, but also spend time on the forest floor. Although nocturnal, they spend the daylight hours basking in the sun. They nest in rocky banks, hollow logs, or small caves. In captivity, the longest recorded survival is three years, but their lifespan in the wild is unknown.
New Guinean quoll | Behaviour and diet
A solitary, mostly terrestrial nocturnal predator, the western quoll is most active around dusk (crepuscular) when it hunts. It moves swiftly on the ground, climbs efficiently, and may dig or occupy existing burrows. During the day it seeks refuge in hollow logs or earth burrows as dens, and saves energy by lowering its body temperature in its sleep. The western quoll is at the top of the food chain, and depends on resource abundance and a healthy ecosystem. Being a carnivore, the western quoll feeds on large invertebrates and any small animal it can. This includes lizards, birds, frogs, spiders, insects, and small mammals; the largest it will eat is the size of a bandicoot or parrot.
Western quoll | Behaviour
Quolls are mostly carnivorous. The smaller quolls primarily eat insects, birds, frogs, lizards and fruit; the larger species eat birds, reptiles, and mammals, including echidnas and possums. The tiger quoll's diet is dominated by mammals such as brushtail possums, rabbits and hares. The exact mix is variable depending on the availability of prey after bushfires, and can include carrion or bandicoots when food is scarce. The other species of quoll have also been known to eat carrion. The paws and vibrissae of quolls allow them to reach into small burrows to find prey. Quolls hunt by stalking. Depending on the size of its prey, a quoll may leap or pounce on it.
Quoll | Diet
It is a resident of the middle to upper levels of pine-oak woodlands and oak-conifer forests, frequently along streams.
Eared quetzal | Distribution and habitat
They are largely solitary, but come together for a few social interactions such as mating which occurs during the winter season. A female gives birth to up to 18 pups, of which only six survive because she only has six teats with which to feed them. Quolls eat smaller mammals, small birds, lizards, and insects. Their natural lifespan is between two and five years. All species have drastically declined in numbers since Australasia was colonised by Europeans, with one species, the eastern quoll, becoming extinct on the Australian mainland, now found only in Tasmania. Major threats to their survival include the cane toad, predators such as feral cats and foxes, urban development, and poison baiting.
Quoll | Introduction
Tiger quolls were once native to Flinders and King Islands, but were extirpated since the 20th century, so are not present on Tasmanian offshore islands. Tiger quolls live in a variety of habitats, but seem to prefer wet forests such as rainforests and closed eucalypt forest. They are arboreal, but only moderately, as 11% of their travelling is done above ground.
Tiger quoll | Range and ecology
Males typically weigh around 1.3 kg, and females 0.9 kg. The longest they are likely to live is four years. Often confused with eastern quoll, it differs in possessing a first toe on the hind foot and a darker tail. It does share a white-spotted brown coat and a long tail with both the eastern quoll and northern quoll.
Western quoll | Description
Conservation efforts include breeding programs in captivity, one of which is taking place in Tasmania with support from Rewilding Australia and Conjour.
Quoll | Introduction
It lives in Central America and the northern part of South America.
Aellopos fadus | Distribution
Quolls (; genus Dasyurus) are carnivorous marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea. They are primarily nocturnal and spend most of the day in a den. Of the six species of quoll, four are found in Australia and two in New Guinea. Another two species are known from fossil remains in Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits in Queensland. Genetic evidence indicates that quolls evolved around 15 million years ago in the Miocene, and that the ancestors of the six species had all diverged by around four million years ago. The six species vary in weight and size, from to . They have brown or black fur and pink noses.
Quoll | Introduction
The tiger quoll is found in eastern Australia where more than 600 mm of rain falls per year. Historically, the quoll was present throughout southeastern Queensland, through eastern New South Wales, Victoria, southeastern South Australia, and Tasmania. European settlement has severely impacted and fragmented the quoll's mainland distribution. Tiger quolls are rare in southeastern Queensland and mainly restricted to national parks. In Victoria, quoll populations have declined by nearly 50%. The range decline was not as severe in New South Wales, but they are still rare. The quoll was probably never very numerous in South Australia. In Tasmania, the tiger quoll mostly frequents the northern and western areas where rains are seasonal.
Tiger quoll | Range and ecology
, there was an estimated population of less than 10,000 and was listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. A nocturnal predator, it inhabits savanna woodlands. Its predators include domesticated and feral dogs, and feral cats. It has been observed in Wasur National Park and Tonda Wildlife Management Area.
Bronze quoll | Status
Additional resident birds include bridled quail-doves, purple-throated caribs, Antillean crested hummingbirds and brown tremblers. Other animals present include lesser Antillean iguanas, red-bellied racers and several species of lizards and bats.
Quill/Boven National Park | Introduction
Reintroduced populations in South Australia have been recorded preying on rabbits and burrowing bettongs.
Western quoll | Behaviour
The northern quoll is the smallest of the four Australian quoll species. Females are smaller than males, with adult females weighing between 350 and 690 g and adult males 540 and 1120 g. Head and body length ranges from 270–370 mm (adult males) to 249–310 mm (adult females). Tail length ranges between 202 and 345 mm. Northern quolls feed primarily on invertebrates, but also consume fleshy fruit (particularly figs), and a wide range of vertebrates, including small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes, and frogs. They also scavenge on roadkills, around campsites, and in garbage tins. A remarkable feature of this species is that the males show complete die-off after mating, leaving the females to raise the young alone.
Northern quoll | Life history
In the 1960s, noted naturalist David Fleay pushed for the revival of the term "quoll" to replace the then-current vernacular names that he felt were misleading. They are very well known animals in Australia. Four species have been recovered from Pleistocene cave deposits from Mount Etna Caves National Park near Rockhampton in central Queensland. Remains of the tiger quoll and the northern quoll, and a species either identical or very similar to the eastern quoll, as well as a prehistoric species as yet undescribed, all lived in what was a rainforest climate. The northern quoll is still found in the region.
Quoll | Taxonomy
Tiger quolls are generally nocturnal and rest during the day in dens. However, juveniles and females with young in the den can be seen during the day and may leave their dens when it is light out. Quoll dens take the form of burrows, caves, rock crevices, tree hollows, hollow logs, or under houses or sheds. Quolls move by walking and bounding gaits. Trails are not particularly important for quoll, although they forage and scent mark along runways and roads. Tiger quolls may live in home ranges that range from 580–875 ha for males and 90–188 for females. Most resident quolls are female, although one population study, both males and females were found to be split between transients and residents.
Tiger quoll | Life history
They are found in a variety of habitats, including deciduous forest, evergreen rain forest and grasslands. They live in burrows, which may be under objects such as rocks, logs and tree roots. Some species dig burrows in farmlands and gardens.
Tliltocatl | Distribution and habitat
Quolls are carnivorous marsupials. They are primarily nocturnal, sleeping in hollowed-out logs or rocky dens and coming out to hunt during the night, though on rare occasions they can be seen looking for prey during the day. They are mostly ground-dwelling, but it is not uncommon to see a quoll climbing a tree. Quolls mark their territory several kilometres away from their dens. A male's territory often overlaps many females' territories, and male and female quolls only meet for mating. Quolls have communal toilet areas, usually on an outcropping used for marking territory and social functions. These communal latrines may have up to 100 droppings in them.
Quoll | Behaviour
Quolls are mostly solitary creatures, limiting contact with other quolls to mating or other social activities.
Quoll | Behaviour
Quolls pin small prey down with their front paws while devouring it, and jump onto larger prey, sinking in their claws and closing their jaws around the neck. Quolls can obtain all the water they need from their food, making them quite adaptable during droughts or other periods of water shortage.
Quoll | Diet
It mainly inhabits grasslands, steppes, savannas and dry scrubland, but also bright forest and grain fields. On high plateaus it lives up to 2,000 meters high. It is mostly resident throughout its range.
Coqui francolin | Habitat
From Yukon and Northwest Territories south to the Gulf of Mexico states such as Texas, Arkansas and Alabama.
Episyron quinquenotatus | Distribution
Adults are between long, with hairy tails about long. Females have six nipples and develop a pouch during the breeding season, which opens toward the tail (with the exception of the tiger quoll, which has a true pouch) when they are rearing young. Their coats are brown or black, with a sparse scattering of white spots. They have bright pink noses and long snouts. Their natural lifespans are between two and five years; the larger species tend to live longer than the smaller. Quolls are solitary, nocturnal animals. The average weight differs greatly depending on the species; male western and eastern quolls weigh about and females .
Quoll | Description
"Scutalus phaeocheilus phaeocheilus" occurs in south of the Lambayeque Region.
Scutalus phaeocheilus | Distribution
This quoya mostly grows in shrubland in coastal areas in sand over limestone however it is also found in inland areas near Wiluna and Carnegie and near the border with South Australia and the Northern Territory. There are a few records from the Northern Territory.
Quoya loxocarpa | Distribution and habitat
The New Guinean quoll is small, usually weighing just over 1 lb (0.45 kg). Its body is brown and the back spotted with white; the spots do not extend onto the lightly haired tail. It resembles a cat-like opossum; the quolls are also referred to as "native cats" and occasionally "marsupial cats" or "tiger cats". Its feet have transversely striated pads, which is likely to be an adaptation for grip and is indicative of a life spent in the trees. It lives throughout the forests of New Guinea at elevations up to 11,000 ft (3300 m) but usually closer to 3,000 ft (900 m).
New Guinean quoll | Description
The tiger quoll is the largest, with the male weighing about and the female . The northern quoll is the smallest, and the male weighs on average , and the female .
Quoll | Description
They live in the west central Atlantic and the Caribbean, including the Gulf of Mexico and the coasts of Florida and the Bahamas.
Equetus | Global distribution
The eastern quoll is a solitary predator, hunting at night for its prey of insects, small mammals, birds, and reptiles. They have been known to scavenge food from the much larger Tasmanian devil. Although the majority of their diet consists of meat, they also eat some vegetable matter, including fruit during the summer, and grass year-round. The eastern quoll is itself prey for Tasmanian devils and masked owls. Eastern quolls are nocturnal, and spend the day resting in burrows, although they may also use natural rock crevices or hollow tree trunks. The burrows often consist of no more than a simple, blind-ending tunnel, but are sometimes more complex, including one or more nesting chambers lined with grass.
Eastern quoll | Behaviour
This species occurs in the North Island of New Zealand and southern Australia, northern Tasmania and the Kermadec islands.
Bulla quoyii | Distribution
The fossil species "D. dunmalli", described by Bartholomai in 1971, is the oldest species recovered to date. Its remains were found in Pliocene deposits near Chinchilla in southeastern Queensland. Known only from a lower jaw and some teeth, it was a relative of the tiger quoll.
Quoll | Taxonomy
It lives mainly in the northern section of South America but has known to be found as far north as Mexico.
Aellopos ceculus | Distribution
The western quoll ("Dasyurus geoffroii") is Western Australia's largest endemic mammalian carnivore. One of the many marsupial mammals native to Australia, it is also known as the chuditch. The species is currently classed as near-threatened.
Western quoll | Introduction
The eastern quoll ("Dasyurus viverrinus"), formerly known as the eastern native cat, is a medium-sized carnivorous dasyurid marsupial native to Australia. They are widespread and even locally common in Tasmania. They have been considered extinct on the mainland since the 1960s, however have been reintroduced back into fenced sanctuaries in 2016, and more recently into the wild in March 2018. It is one of six extant species of quolls.
Eastern quoll | Introduction
In the wild, its roaming is restricted to a very small range in the South West of Western Australia, with a number of small scattered populations. One large population exists on Rottnest Island and a smaller population is on Bald Island near Albany. The islands are free of certain predators such as red foxes and cats. On Rottnest, quokkas are common and occupy a variety of habitats, ranging from semiarid scrub to cultivated gardens. Prickly "Acanthocarpus" plants, which are unaccommodating for humans and other relatively large animals to walk through, provide their favorite daytime shelter for sleeping. Additionally, they are known for their ability to climb trees.
Quokka | Ecology
Both fawn and black individuals can be born in the same litter, although in surviving populations the former represent about three times more common than the latter. The spots are in diameter, and are found across the upper body and flanks, from the top of the head to the rump, but, unlike some other species of quoll, do not extend onto the tail. Females possess a relatively shallow fur-lined pouch formed by lateral folds of skin. The pouch becomes enlarged during the breeding season, and includes six to eight teats, which only become elongated and functional if one of the young attaches to them, regressing again after they leave the pouch.
Eastern quoll | Description
It is native to southwestern North America in northwest Mexico and the Southwestern United States from California to Oklahoma and Texas to Kansas to Oregon.
Anemopsis | Range and habitat
These largely solitary birds feed on fruits, berries, insects and small vertebrates (such as frogs). Even with their famous bright plumage, they can be hard to see in their natural wooded habitats.
Quetzal | Introduction
Some migrate long distances, like Franklin's gull, which migrates from Canada to wintering grounds in the south of South America. Other species move much shorter distances and may simply disperse along the coasts near their breeding sites.
Gull | Distribution and habitat
The animals live on dry, exposed habitats, such as roadsides and railway embankments, vegetated sand dunes and rock boulders and short grassland. They rise up to 2000 m above sea level in the Alps and Pyrenees.
Helicella itala | Habitat
Acutuncus antarcticus lives in Antarctica, and South Georgia Island and the South Sandwich Islands.
Acutuncus | Distribution
This species can be found in most of Europe. It lives in hedge rows.
Cratichneumon culex | Distribution and habitat
Native from northern South America north to Mexico.
Ipomoea quamoclit | Distribution and habitat
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Indo-Malaysia, the Western Pacific and off Tuvalu; off Queensland, Australia.
Munditiella qualum | Distribution
This species appears to be restricted to Region Metropolitana. It has been collected from burrows similar to "A. huaquen".
Acanthogonatus quilocura | Distribution
The species is known only from two collection sites about 2,000 m above sea level in the Sierra Madre Oriental, in the southeastern part of the state of Coahuila. It inhabits exposed sites of limestone rock.
Echinocereus nivosus | Distribution and habitat
The western quoll is about the size of a domestic cat. It is coloured a rufous brown and has 40–70 white spots on its back with a creamy white underside. Its spots actually help diminish its outline from the moon at night when hunting. It has five toes on its hind feet and granular pads. The head and body are about 36 cm to 46 cm in length, and the tail is around 22 cm to 30 cm. With large eyes and pointed ears, it is well adapted for nocturnal life. The black brush on its tail extends from halfway down to the tip.
Western quoll | Description
The species is endemic to area area around Cooktown in Queensland in Australia. It has only been recorded in the sandstone escarpments of the Cooktown-Laura area.
Ctenotus quinkan | Distribution
This species has an extremely large range, but can be found only in Brazil.
Frilled coquette | Distribution
"Conus ebraeus" lives near rocky shores, lower eulittoral, often under boulders.
Conus ebraeus | Habitat
The NSW National Parks and Wildlife service reported numerous unconfirmed sightings until 1999 (the year of the report), and the species was reported sighted as recently as 2006; however, these sightings may have been of a similarly patterned quoll, the spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus). Specimens collected in 2005 and 2008 west of Melbourne, Victoria, are likely connected with a nearby wildlife sanctuary, either as direct escapees, or the descendants of escapees from that facility. In March 2016, a small population of 16 was reintroduced to the mainland in Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary in Canberra. A second reintroduction to the same protected reserve took place in 2017, where the population grew after breeding season to approximately 40.
Eastern quoll | Conservation
"Quoya cuneata" grows in red sand between the Murchison River and Shark Bay in the Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains, Murchison and Yalgoo biogeographic regions.
Quoya cuneata | Distribution and habitat
Coquís tend to be in their natural habitats in the forests but it is also common for the species to appear in human territories such as houses, parks, and near bodies of water.
Coquí | Habitat
This species occurs in Argentina
Chalcolepidius limbatus | Distribution
"Quoya dilatata" mainly occurs between Perth and Carnamah but has also been found near Northam and Cowcowing, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions. The only known collection near the Murchison River was of the type specimen.
Quoya dilatata | Distribution
This species occurs in the following locations:France
Conasprella aturensis | Distribution
This species was described from the Rade de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.
Facelina quatrefagesi | Distribution
It lives in barren, rocky, desert terrain, sparsely covered with brush and cacti.
Crotalus atrox tortugensis | Habitat
The species is native to the northwest Atlantic, with a range extending from Belle Isle and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to New Jersey.
Myoxocephalus aenaeus | Distribution and habitat
With such a wide geographic range, "H. lineata" are known to live a variety of habitats, including deserts, gardens and suburbs. They have also been seen in abundance in the mountains of Colorado, but their presence varies from year to year in many places.
Hyles lineata | Habitat
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Guinea.
Conus bellocqae | Distribution
It feeds on frogs and lizards. They are diurnal. They live in primary and secondary forest habitats, on the ground or small trees, or in shrubs and bushes.
Chironius scurrulus | Habitat and Biology
This species occurs in the English Channel off France.
Haedropleura hanleyi | Distribution
The western gull is a year-round resident in California, Oregon, Baja California, and southern Washington. It is migratory, moving to northern Washington, British Columbia, and Baja California Sur to spend the nonbreeding season.
Western gull | Distribution and habitat
This species occurs throughout the Indo-Pacific including Hawaii, Republic of the Marshall Islands, French Polynesia, Fiji, New Caledonia, in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, the Mascarene Basin, Madagascar and Mauritius; off Eastern India, the tropical Indo-West Pacific and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
Conus quercinus | Distribution
The typical habitat of "Oecanthus pellucens" are sunny meadows with high vegetation and dry warm and nutrient-poor areas such as grasslands, sand dunes and brownfield lands.
Oecanthus pellucens | Habitat
This marine species occurs off Balut Island, the Philippines
Conus quiquandoni | Distribution
The last mainland eastern quoll specimen was collected as roadkill at Nielsen Park on 31 January 1963. The rare Nielsen Park she-oak was originally identified here in 1986 from ten specimens. Those original plants have since died. However, efforts to propagate and reintroduce the species began from the time it was identified, and plants were planted at several locations around Nielsen Park and nearby Gap Bluff and Hermit Point. Fifty-four of these remained alive in 2000.
Nielsen Park | Rare flora and fauna
The Quoin Head marlock is found on coastal slopes, creeklines and cliff tops where it is only known from a small area at the type location near Quoin Head .
Eucalyptus mcquoidii | Distribution and habitat
Since 1770, all Australian quoll species have declined in number owing to habitat loss caused by urbanization. The northern quoll is threatened by toxic cane toads, but a University of Sydney project revealed in 2010 is teaching them to avoid eating the invasive amphibians. In 2008, the Northern Territory Wildlife Park in Australia recorded their first litter of quoll pups in the park. The quolls bred well in captivity, with over 15 litters in the 2008 breeding season alone. In late October 2011, a litter of five tiger quoll pups was born at Wild Life Sydney in Darling Harbour, Australia.
Quoll | Conservation efforts
It occurs in heathland and dry sclerophyll forests on sandstone in Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. In New South Wales it is found on the coast and Southern Highlands.
Aotus ericoides | Distribution and habitat
"Athous bicolor" lives in grasslands and in areas with low vegetation and herbaceous plants.
Athous bicolor | Habitat
Quolls are suffering badly from urbanisation, housing development, mining development, and expansion of agricultural lands. Habitats are also being destroyed by large herbivores trampling the grass and overgrowth, making camouflage difficult. Bush fires and weeds also contribute to habitat destruction.
Quoll | Threats
It occasionally can be found further offshore, as far as the continental shelf break. In the Bering Sea and Alaska, it feeds in openings in ice sheets.
Pigeon guillemot | Distribution and habitat
This species lives in western North America, ranging from British Columbia, Canada, in the north to California, United States, in the south. It ranges from the coast into Alberta and Montana. It may reach further, but current knowledge is based only on reported sightings.
Habronattus americanus | Habitat
It occurs in tropical humid lowland forest and adjacent habitats. It is social and typically seen in pairs or groups. It feeds on fruits, seeds and flowers. The nest is placed in a tree cavity. It is likely to be fairly common within its range, but generally very poorly known, as the remote region where it occurs rarely is visited by ornithologists.
Bonaparte's parakeet | Habitat and behavior
The habitat of most species is in the Indian Ocean, but some occur in the Pacific Ocean.
Monilea | Distribution
It lives on black lava rock habitat near the waters of Sulphur Gay.
Hypsiglena unaocularus | Habitat
Males have overlapping home ranges, but each has its own core area of at least 128 ha. The home ranges of females may overlap less. Quolls sometimes share dens during the breeding season. After copulation, females act aggressively towards males, especially when close to parturition. For the tiger quoll, olfactory and auditory signals are used more often than visual signals when communicating. Quolls greet each other with nose-to-nose sniffs, and males will sniff the backsides of females to check for estrus. Quolls also mark themselves with mouth and ear secretions. Some populations have communal latrines, while others do not. Rocky creek beds, cliff bases, and roads serve as locations for latrines.
Tiger quoll | Life history
It inhabits mountainous chaparral west of the Rocky Mountains, from the United States to Baja peninsula Mexico. It has been introduced to British Columbia in Canada, and some areas of Washington state in the USA. It can be found up to above sea level. It is a non-migratory species; however some populations may be altitudinal migrants in some mountain ranges.
Mountain quail | Distribution and habitat
During non-breeding periods, the birds can be found on estuarine mud and sandflats.
Relict gull | Distribution and habitat
This species is present in Central and North America. It can be found in deciduous/mixed forests and woodlands.
Alaus oculatus | Distribution and habitat
The European species is found in a wide range of habitats, from arctic to Mediterranean. The North and South American species are found in a more limited range of temperate climates.
Littorella | Distribution
"Paratrophon quoyi" are found in waters off New South Wales in Australia and the North Island in New Zealand. They live on rocks in the intertidal zone. They feed on algae during high tide. During low tide, they shut themselves up tight to prevent water loss.
Paratrophon quoyi | Distribution
This species occurs in much of Europe, and across the Palearctic to Japan. The adult "V. pellucens" is usually found in woodlands and wooded hedgerows, but will enter gardens.
Volucella pellucens | Distribution and habitat
The population appears to be centered in the highlands of New Guinea.
New Guinean quoll | Description
This species can be found in North America from Quebec and Maine south to Florida and west to Texas and South Dakota. It has also been spotted in Ohio. It prefers woodlands and forested habitats.
Apantesis nais | Distribution and habitat
This species lives in temperate and humid deciduous forests.
Escargot de Quimper | Habitat
This genus occurs in South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Ecuador.
Plekocheilus | Distribution
This species prefers dry areas, sagebrush scrubs and woodlands, at elevation of above sea level.
Phlox douglasii | Habitat
The eastern quoll is a member of the family Dasyuridae, which includes most carnivorous marsupials. Its species name, "viverrinus", indicates it is "ferret-like". There are no recognised subspecies.
Eastern quoll | Taxonomy
The New Guinean quoll belongs to Dasyuridae, a family of carnivorous marsupials, which includes other species of quolls, the extinct thylacine, the Tasmanian devil, and many smaller carnivores. It is one of six extant species of quolls, four of which are found in only in Australia and two of which are restricted to New Guinea (the bronze quoll is the other New Guinean species). Both the quolls found in New Guinea seem to be most closely related to the Australian western quoll.
New Guinean quoll | Taxonomy
This marine species occurs off Guadeloupe.
Conasprella roberti | Distribution