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North Queensland Naturalist 52: 1-3

An important feeding area for juvenile Cowtail Stingrays (Pastinachus ater) in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, can come at a predatory cost

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Alastair Freeman

Abstract

This note documents multiple observations of juvenile Cowtail Stingrays in the near shore habitat in the south-eastern corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria, their stranding and mortality in beach gutters and predation of individual stranded rays by White-bellied Sea-eagles.

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