Commercial harvesting of Kangaroos in Australia
by Tony Pople and Gordon Grigg
Department of Zoology, The University of Queensland
for Environment Australia, August 1999
Chapters 10,11,12 and 13 and Appendix 1 provided by staff at Environment Australia
Table 3. Comparison of correction factors developed for 200 m strip transect counts using the same fixed-wing aircraft aerial survey method (see text).
Open refers to grassland and open shrubland; wooded refers to vegetation ranging from low open woodland to woodland, and includes mulga tall shrubland.
| Source | Habitat | Red kangaroos | Eastern grey kangaroos | Western grey kangaroos | Common wallaroos |
| Bailey (1971) | open | 1.8 | - | - | - |
| Caughley et al. (1976) | open | 2.3 | - | - | - |
| Caughley et al. (1976) | wooded | 2.4 | - | - | - |
| Short & Bayliss (1985) | open | 1.8 | - | 4.8 | - |
| Short and Bayliss (1985) | wooded | 2.8 | - | 16.7 | - |
| Short & Hone (1988) | open | 2.5 | - | 5.9 | 11.1 |
| Southwell et al. (1986) | open | 1.8 | - | - | 3.9 |
| Southwell et al. (1986) | wooded | 4.2 | - | - | 23.3 |
| Grice et al. (1990) | wooded | 3.8 | 3.5 | - | - |
| Southwell (1993) | wooded | 2.3 | - | - | - |
| Longreach * | open | 1.7 | 10.1 | - | 3.8 |
| Windorah * | open | 3.1 | 9.5 | - | - |
| Blackall * | open/wooded | 2.6 | 5.0 | - | 4.1 |
| Charleville * | wooded | 3.1 | 5.1 | - | 4.8 |
| Bollon * | wooded | 1.8 | 4.0 | - | - |
| Roma * | wooded | 0.7 | 3.4 | - | - |
| Goondiwindi * | wooded | - | 7.6 | - | - |
* Pople et al. (1993,1998).