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CORRIGENDUM (Open Access)
Contents Vol 47(2)

Corrigendum to: Drone surveys cause less disturbance than ground-based surveys in endangered spectacled flying-foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus)

Emmeline Bernadette Barrett Norris
Australian Mammalogy 47, AM25010_CO https://doi.org/10.1071/AM25010_CO
Published: 29 April 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the Australian Mammal Society. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

This article corrects Australian Mammalogy 47, AM25010 doi.org/10.1071/AM25010

The author advises of a couple of errors in Table 2 of the published paper which is regretted. The start time in the bottom two rows of the table were incorrectly listed as 12:17 am and 12:31 am. These should instead read 12:17 pm and 12:31 pm. The corrected Table 2 is provided below.

Table 2.

Drone flight parameters and observed spectacled flying-fox (SFF; Pteropus conspicillatus) behavioural responses to drone and ground surveys at roosts in El Arish and Tolga Scrub, north-eastern Queensland, in September 2024.


DateSiteStart timeFlight duration (min)Drone modelSFF response (drone)SFF response (ground)
2/9/2024El Arish10:30 am2M3TRestingAlert, alarmed, escape
2/9/2024El Arish10:52 am9M350Resting
6/9/2024El Arish9:48 am25M350RestingAlert, alarmed
18/9/2024El Arish7:36 am10M3TRestingAlert, alarmed, escape
18/9/2024El Arish7:49 am12M350Resting
18/9/2024El Arish8:18 am4M3TResting
19/9/2024Tolga Scrub8:33 am5M3TRestingAlert
19/9/2024Tolga Scrub8:41 am6M350Resting
19/9/2024Tolga Scrub12:17 pm10M350VigilantAlert, alarmed
19/9/2024Tolga Scrub12:31 pm5M3TVigilant

Each ground survey was conducted once per set of drone flights to minimise colony stress. Behavioural response categories are defined in Table 1. M3T and M350 refer to the DJI Mavic Enterprise 3T and DJI Matrice 350 RTK drones respectively.