Grey Headed Flying Foxes

Grey headed Flying Foxes (Scientific name: Pteropus poliocephalus ) or Fruit Bat. It is one of the largest bats in Australia with a wingspan of over 1 m. At night the Grey-headed Flying-fox searches for food and may travel 50 km to its feeding areas. It eats fruit from a range of native and introduced species, particularly figs, and for this reason it is sometimes called 'Fruit Bat'. It also feeds on nectar and pollen from native trees, especially gum trees. Although they appear in large groups, numbers of Grey-headed Flying Foxes are declining because of habitat clearing. These bats are important to healthy forest ecosystems because they pollinate and disperse the seeds of many important tree species.