About the Grey-Headed Flying Fox
Welcome to my website dedicated to educating and raising awareness about the Grey-Headed Flying foxes. As a vulnerable native species in Australia, it's important to understand their habitat, behavior, and conservation. Join me in exploring the fascinating world of these remarkable creatures!
Why are flying foxes important?
​Grey-Headed flying foxes are important in maintaining healthy forests and supporting ecosystems. Flying foxes play a crucial role in dispersing seeds and pollinating flowering plants as well. Because flying-foxes are highly mobile, seeds can be moved locally and over great distances, helping to spread biodiversity of plants, as well as increasing the survival rates of the seeds to grow into a mature plant.
What is causing their endangerment?
​The main cause of endangerment of Grey-Headed Flying Foxes is habitat destruction and climate change. They like to live in treetops and forests, however these habitats get cleared forcing them out of their homes. Climate change affects them heavily as well. WIth droughts happening they can't get sufficient water supply, and they do not cope well during high temperatures and heatwaves.
Learn more about their Conservation Status. Click below!
Where can I see them in real life?
​You can see them at the Yarra Bend camp in Kew. It regularly supports more than 10,000 Grey-Headed Flying-foxes and numbers can exceed 30,000 during summer. In winter, the numbers decline, but several thousand flying-foxes usually remain. Flying foxes are nomadic mammals that travel up and down the east coast of Australia, primarily along the eastern coastal plain. Grey-Headed Flying-foxes are found from Ingham (110km north of Townsville in Queensland), through New South Wales and south to Victoria (and are now even found in South Australia).​​​​
Learn more about Yarra Bend and Victoria's Flying Fox camps. Click below!
