Dibbler

About

A small, mouse-sized carnivorous marsupial thought extinct until it was rediscovered at Cheyne Beach in 1967. It survives in a handful of coastal heath and mallee remnants on WA's south coast and a few translocated island populations.

How to spot it

Grey-brown fur flecked with white, a distinctive white eye-ring, and a short tapering tail (unlike the long brush-tipped tail of similar dunnarts). Strictly nocturnal — most likely detected via camera trap or spotlighting in dense coastal heath-mallee.

Found in

• Fitzgerald River National Park
• Torndirrup National Park