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Healesville Sanctuary, or the Sir Colin MacKenzie Fauna Park, is a zoo
Zoo

A Zoology garden, abbreviated to zoo, is an institution in which living animals are exhibited in captivity. In addition to their status as tourist attractions and recreational facilities, modern zoos may engage in captive breeding programs, conservation study, and educational outreach....
 specializing in native Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n animals. It is located at Healesville
Healesville, Victoria

Healesville is a town in Victoria , Australia, 52 km north-east from Melbourne's Melbourne city centre. Its Local Government Areas of Victoria is the Shire of Yarra Ranges....
 in rural Victoria
Victoria (Australia)

File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, and has a history of breeding native animals. It is one of only two places to have successfully bred a platypus
Platypus

The Platypus is a semi-aquatic mammal Endemic to Eastern states of Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay Egg instead of giving birth to live young....
, the other being Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
's Taronga Zoo
Taronga Zoo

Taronga Zoo is the city zoo of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Officially opened on October 7th, 1916, it is located on the shores of Port Jackson in the suburb of Mosman, New South Wales....
. It also assists with a breeding population of the endangered Helmeted Honeyeater
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater

The Yellow-tufted Honeyeater is a passerine bird found in the south-east ranges of Australia from south-east Queensland through eastern New South Wales and across Victoria into the tip of Southeastern South Australia....
.

The zoo is set in a natural bushland
Bushland

The term bushland usually refers to an area that has only a sparse Flora and Fauna . This term was first used to describe the harsh Australian Outback, the red semi-desert that covers a significant part of the inner continent....
 environment where paths wind through different habitat areas showcasing wallabies
Wallaby

A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod . It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name....
, wombat
Wombat

Wombats are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately in length with a very short tail. They are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania....
s, dingoes
Dingo

|- style = "text-align:center"|style="background: pink;" |Breed standards |- style = "text-align:center"||}The Dingo also known as Warrigal, Maliki, Mirigung, Decker Dog, Boololomo, Repeti, or Australian Native Dog, is a feral dog which mostly lives independently from humans....
, kangaroo
Kangaroo

A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae . In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the Red Kangaroo, the Antilopine Kangaroo, and the Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Western Grey Kangaroo of the Macropus genus....
s, and over 200 native bird
List of Australian birds

This list is based on Christidis and Boles, Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds, CSIRO, Melbourne, 2008 and deviates in important aspects from the general accepted names....
 varieties.

Conducted tours, bird shows and information areas are available to visitors.

Dr Colin MacKenzie
William Colin Mackenzie

Sir William Colin Mackenzie , usually known as Colin Mackenzie, was an Australian anatomy, benefactor, museum administrator and director....
 (knighted in 1929) set up the Institute of Anatomical Research in 1920 on 78 acres (316,000 mē) of land which had formerly been part of the Coranderrk
Coranderrk

Coranderrk was an Indigenous Australian mission station set up in 1863 to provide land under the policy of concentration, for Aboriginal people who had been dispossessed by the arrival of Europeans to the state of Victoria 30 years prior....
 Aboriginal Reserve.






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Healesville Sanctuary, or the Sir Colin MacKenzie Fauna Park, is a zoo
Zoo

A Zoology garden, abbreviated to zoo, is an institution in which living animals are exhibited in captivity. In addition to their status as tourist attractions and recreational facilities, modern zoos may engage in captive breeding programs, conservation study, and educational outreach....
 specializing in native Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n animals. It is located at Healesville
Healesville, Victoria

Healesville is a town in Victoria , Australia, 52 km north-east from Melbourne's Melbourne city centre. Its Local Government Areas of Victoria is the Shire of Yarra Ranges....
 in rural Victoria
Victoria (Australia)

File:Map Victoria Aboriginal tribes .jpgVictoria is a States and territories of Australia located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most Population density and urbanised....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, and has a history of breeding native animals. It is one of only two places to have successfully bred a platypus
Platypus

The Platypus is a semi-aquatic mammal Endemic to Eastern states of Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay Egg instead of giving birth to live young....
, the other being Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
's Taronga Zoo
Taronga Zoo

Taronga Zoo is the city zoo of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Officially opened on October 7th, 1916, it is located on the shores of Port Jackson in the suburb of Mosman, New South Wales....
. It also assists with a breeding population of the endangered Helmeted Honeyeater
Yellow-tufted Honeyeater

The Yellow-tufted Honeyeater is a passerine bird found in the south-east ranges of Australia from south-east Queensland through eastern New South Wales and across Victoria into the tip of Southeastern South Australia....
.

The zoo is set in a natural bushland
Bushland

The term bushland usually refers to an area that has only a sparse Flora and Fauna . This term was first used to describe the harsh Australian Outback, the red semi-desert that covers a significant part of the inner continent....
 environment where paths wind through different habitat areas showcasing wallabies
Wallaby

A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod . It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name....
, wombat
Wombat

Wombats are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately in length with a very short tail. They are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania....
s, dingoes
Dingo

|- style = "text-align:center"|style="background: pink;" |Breed standards |- style = "text-align:center"||}The Dingo also known as Warrigal, Maliki, Mirigung, Decker Dog, Boololomo, Repeti, or Australian Native Dog, is a feral dog which mostly lives independently from humans....
, kangaroo
Kangaroo

A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae . In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the Red Kangaroo, the Antilopine Kangaroo, and the Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Western Grey Kangaroo of the Macropus genus....
s, and over 200 native bird
List of Australian birds

This list is based on Christidis and Boles, Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds, CSIRO, Melbourne, 2008 and deviates in important aspects from the general accepted names....
 varieties.

Conducted tours, bird shows and information areas are available to visitors.

Dr Colin MacKenzie
William Colin Mackenzie

Sir William Colin Mackenzie , usually known as Colin Mackenzie, was an Australian anatomy, benefactor, museum administrator and director....
 (knighted in 1929) set up the Institute of Anatomical Research in 1920 on 78 acres (316,000 mē) of land which had formerly been part of the Coranderrk
Coranderrk

Coranderrk was an Indigenous Australian mission station set up in 1863 to provide land under the policy of concentration, for Aboriginal people who had been dispossessed by the arrival of Europeans to the state of Victoria 30 years prior....
 Aboriginal Reserve. The Reserve passed to the Healesville Council in 1927 and became the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary in 1934.

The first platypus bred in captivity was born at the Sanctuary in 1943 when it was managed by David Fleay
David Fleay

David Howells Fleay was an Australian natural history who pioneered the captive breeding of endangered species, and was the first person to captive breed the platypus ....
.

Animals and exhibits


General exhibits

  • Spotted-tailed Quoll
  • Tasmanian Devil
    Tasmanian Devil

    The Tasmanian Devil is a carnivore marsupial now found in the wild only in the Australian island states and territories of Australia of Tasmania....
  • Dingo
    Dingo

    |- style = "text-align:center"|style="background: pink;" |Breed standards |- style = "text-align:center"||}The Dingo also known as Warrigal, Maliki, Mirigung, Decker Dog, Boololomo, Repeti, or Australian Native Dog, is a feral dog which mostly lives independently from humans....
  • Emu
    Emu

    The Emu , Dromaius novaehollandiae, is the largest bird native to Australia and the only Extant taxon member of the genus Dromaius. It is also the second-largest extant bird in the world by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich....
  • Powerful Owl
    Powerful Owl

    The Powerful Owl is a species of owl native to south-eastern and eastern Australia, the largest owl on that continent. It is found in coastal areas, the Great Dividing Range no more than 200 km inland....
  • Barn Owl
    Barn Owl

    ?:The city in Russia is spelled Barnaul.The Barn Owl is the most Cosmopolitan distribution species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds....
  • Laughing Kookaburra
    Laughing Kookaburra

    The Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae, is an Australian carnivore bird in the Kingfisher family. This species of kookaburra is well known for its laughing call....
  • Helmeted Honeyeater
  • Apostlebird
    Apostlebird

    The Apostlebird , also known as the Grey Jumper, is a quick-moving, gray or black bird about 13 inches long. It is a native to Australia where it roams woodlands, eating insects and seeds at, or near, ground level....
  • Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard
    Eastern blue-tongued lizard

    The Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard is a subspecies of large skink which is common throughout Eastern Australia, often found in bushland and suburban areas where conditions are suitable....
    *Ridge-tailed Monitor
  • Lace Monitor
    Lace monitor

    The Lace Monitor, or Lace Goanna, Varanus varius, is a member of the monitor lizard family, Australian members of which are commonly known as goannas....
  • Jacky Lizard
  • Burton's Legless Lizard
  • Death Adder
    Death adder

    Death adder may refer to:In herpetology:* All members of the genus Acanthophis, a group of highly venomous elapids found in Australia and New Guinea...


Koalas

  • Koala
    Koala

    The Koala is a wikt:thickset arboreal marsupial herbivory native to Australia, and the only Extant taxon representative of the family Phascolarctidae....
  • Short-beaked Echidna
    Short-beaked Echidna

    The Short-beaked Echidna , also known as the Spiny Anteater because of its diet of ants and termites, is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus Tachyglossus....
  • Parma Wallaby
    Parma Wallaby

    The Parma Wallaby was first described by British naturalist John Gould in about 1840. A shy, cryptic creature of the wet sclerophyll forests of southern New South Wales, it was never common and, even before the end of the 19th century, it was believed to be extinct....
  • Tasmanian Pademelon
    Tasmanian Pademelon

    The Tasmanian Pademelon , also known as the Rufous-bellied Pademelon or Red-bellied Pademelon, is the sole Endemism species of pademelon found in Tasmania....


Birds of the Bush

  • Orange-bellied Parrot
    Orange-bellied Parrot

    The Orange-bellied Parrot is a small broad-tailed parrot endemic to Australia.The adult male is distinguished by its bright grass-green upperparts, yellow underparts and orange belly patch....
  • Swift Parrot
    Swift Parrot

    The Swift Parrot breeds in Tasmania and migrates north to south eastern Australia from Griffith-Warialda in Queensland and west to Adelaide in the winter....
  • Rose-crowned Fruit-dove
    Rose-crowned Fruit-dove

    The Rose-crowned Fruit-dove, Ptilinopus regina, also known as Pink-capped Fruit-dove or Swainson's Fruit-dove, is a medium-sized, up to 22cm long, green fruit dove with a grey head and breast, an orange belly, whitish throat, yellow-orange Iris , and greyish green Beak and feet....
  • Fan-tailed Cuckoo
    Fan-tailed Cuckoo

    The Fan-tailed Cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is found in Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu....
  • Eastern Whipbird
    Eastern Whipbird

    The Eastern Whipbird is an insectivore passerine bird native to the east coast of Australia, its whip-crack call a familiar sound in forests of eastern Australia....


Kangaroos

  • Red Kangaroo
    Red Kangaroo

    The Red Kangaroo is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest mammal native to Australia, and the largest surviving marsupial. It is found across mainland Australia, avoiding only the more fertile areas in the south, the east coast, and the northern rainforests....
  • Western Grey Kangaroo
    Western Grey Kangaroo

    The Western Grey Kangaroo is a large and very common macropod, found across almost the entire southern part of Australia, from just south of Shark Bay to coastal South Australia, western Victoria, Australia, and the entire Murray-Darling Basin in New South Wales and Queensland....
  • Australian White Ibis
    Australian White Ibis

    The Australian White Ibis is a wading bird of the ibis family Threskiornithidae, also known as the "Sheep bird". It is widespread across much of Australia....


Gang-gang Aviary

  • Gang-gang Cockatoo
    Gang-gang Cockatoo

    The Gang-gang Cockatoo, Callocephalon fimbriatum, is found in the cooler and wetter forests and woodlands of Australia, particularly :wikt:alpine bushland....
  • Bush Stone-curlew
    Bush Stone-curlew

    The Bush Stone-curlew is a large, ground-dwelling bird endemic to Australia. Although it looks rather like a wader and is related to the oystercatchers, avocets and plovers, it is a terrestrial predator filling a similar ecological niche to the roadrunners of North America....


World of the Platypus/Platypusary

  • Platypus
    Platypus

    The Platypus is a semi-aquatic mammal Endemic to Eastern states of Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay Egg instead of giving birth to live young....
  • Water Rat
    Water Rat

    Hydromys chrysogaster, commonly known as Rakali or Water-rat, is an Fauna of Australia rodent. The species lives in burrows on the banks of rivers, lakes and estuaries and feeds on aquatic insects, fish, crustaceans, mussels, snails, frogs, birds' eggs and water birds....
  • Gippsland Water Dragon
  • Short-finned Eel
    Short-finned eel

    The short-finned eel, Anguilla australis, is one of the 15 species of eel in the family Anguillidae. It is native to the lakes, dams and coastal rivers of south-eastern Australia, New Zealand, and much of the Oceania, including New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, Tahiti, and Fiji....
  • Macquarie Perch
    Macquarie perch

    The Macquarie perch is an Australian native freshwater fish of the Murray-Darling basin. It is a member of the Percichthyidae family and is closely related to the golden perch ....
  • Yabby
    Cherax

    Cherax is the largest and most widespread genus of fully and partially aquatic crayfish in the Southern Hemisphere. Its members may be found in lakes, rivers and streams across most of Australia and New Guinea....
  • Murray Crayfish
    Murray crayfish

    The Murray crayfish, Euastacus armatus, is a species of freshwater crayfish endemic to Australia that belongs to the family Parastacidae. The Murray crayfish has the largest geographic range of any of the Euastacus crayfish in Australia, being found in the Murray River and Murrumbidgee River Rivers as well as many of their tributarie...


Woodland Aviary

  • Painted Buttonquail
    Painted Buttonquail

    The Painted Buttonquail is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This species is resident in Australia....
  • Musk Lorikeet
    Musk Lorikeet

    The Musk Lorikeet is a Lories and lorikeets, one of the three species of the Glossopsitta genus. It inhabits south-central/eastern Australia....
  • Purple-crowned Lorikeet
    Purple-crowned Lorikeet

    The Purple-crowned Lorikeet , also known as the Zit Parrot, is a Lories and lorikeets found in scrub and Mallee of southern Australia. It is a small lorikeet distinguished by a purple crown, an orange forehead and ear-coverts, and a light blue chin and chest....
  • Common Bronzewing
    Common Bronzewing

    The Common Bronzewing is a species of medium-sized, heavily built pigeon. Native to Australia and one of the country's most common pigeons, the Common Bronzewing is able to live in almost any habitat, with the possible exception of very barren areas and dense rainforests....
  • Crested Pigeon
    Crested Pigeon

    The Crested Pigeon is a bird found widely throughout mainland Australia except for far tropical north areas. There are only two Australian pigeon species that possess an erect crest, being the Crested Pigeon and the Spinifex Pigeon....
  • Peaceful Dove
    Peaceful Dove

    The Peaceful Dove is a pigeon native to Australia and New Guinea. It is closely related to the Zebra Dove of south-east Asia and the Barred Dove of eastern Indonesia....
  • Sacred Kingfisher
    Sacred Kingfisher

    The Sacred Kingfisher is a tree kingfisher found in the mangroves, forests, and river valleys of Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, New Caledonia, New Zealand , Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and the Wallis and Futuna Islands....
  • Variegated Fairy-wren
    Variegated Fairy-wren

    The Variegated Fairy-wren is a fairy-wren that lives in diverse habitats spread across most of Australia. Four subspecies are recognised. Exhibiting a high degree of sexual dimorphism, the brightly coloured breeding male has chestnut shoulders and blue crown and ear coverts, while non-breeding males, females and juveniles have predominantly...
  • Eastern Yellow Robin
    Eastern Yellow Robin

    The Eastern Yellow Robin is an Petroicidae of coastal and sub-coastal eastern Australia. The extent of the Eastern Yellow Robin's residence is from the extreme southeast corner of South Australia through most of Victoria, Australia and the western half of New South Wales and north as far as Cooktown....
  • Satin Bowerbird
    Satin Bowerbird

    The Satin Bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus is a bowerbird common in rainforest and tall wet sclerophyll forest in eastern Australia from southern Queensland to Victoria ....
  • White-browed Woodswallow
    White-browed Woodswallow

    The White-browed Woodswallow is a moderately-sized passerine bird native to inland Australia. Like all woodswallows, it has a brush-tipped tongue but feeds almost exclusively on flying insects....
  • Chestnut-breasted Mannikin


Rock-wallaby

  • Australian Pelican
    Australian Pelican

    The Australian Pelican is a large water bird, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant to New Zealand....
  • Black Swan
    Black Swan

    The Black Swan is a large Wildfowl which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia....
  • Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby
    Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby

    The Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby or Small-eared Rock-wallaby is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallaby in the genus Petrogale. It inhabits rock piles and cliff lines along the Great Dividing Range from about 100 km north-west of Brisbane to northern Victoria , in vegetation ranging from rainforest to Sclerophyll....
  • Chestnut Teal
    Chestnut Teal

    The Chestnut Teal is a dabbling duck found in southern Australia.The male has a distinctive green coloured head and mottled brown body. The female has a brown head and mottled brown body....
  • Dusky Moorhen
    Dusky Moorhen

    The Dusky Moorhen is a bird in the rallidae family . It occurs in Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia.The New Guinea birds are smaller, at 25-32 Metre#SI multiples in length, than the Australian race ....
  • Magpie Goose
  • Pacific Black Duck
    Pacific Black Duck

    The Pacific Black Duck, Anas superciliosa is a dabbling duck found in much of Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and many islands in the southwestern Pacific, reaching to the Caroline Islands in the north and French Polynesia in the east....
  • Purple Swamphen
    Purple Swamphen

    The Purple Swamphen , also known as the African Purple Swamphen or Purple Moorhen or Purple Gallinule or Purple Coot , is a large bird in the family Rallidae....


Arid Birds

  • Scarlet-chested Parrot
    Scarlet-chested Parrot

    The Scarlet-chested Parrot , known alternately as Scarlet-breasted parrot, Orange-throated parrot or Splendid parrot, is a parrot endemic to central South Australia and inland southern Western Australia....
  • Princess Parrot
    Princess Parrot

    The colourful Princess Parrot, Polytelis alexandrae, is an Australian bird of the parrot family. Its name was given in honour of Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who later married the Prince of Wales Edward VII of the United Kingdom and eventually became the Queen of England....
  • Budgerigar
    Budgerigar

    The 'budgerigar' , is a small parrot belonging to the tribe of the broad-tailed parrots ; sometimes considered a subfamily . It is the only species in the Australian genus 'Melopsittacus' and sometimes isolated in a tribe of its own, the 'Melopsittacini', although it is probably quite closely related to Pezoporus and Neophe...
  • Rainbow Bee-eater
    Rainbow Bee-eater

    The Rainbow Bee-eater, Merops ornatus, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is the only species of Meropidae found in Australia....
  • Variegated Fairy-wren
    Variegated Fairy-wren

    The Variegated Fairy-wren is a fairy-wren that lives in diverse habitats spread across most of Australia. Four subspecies are recognised. Exhibiting a high degree of sexual dimorphism, the brightly coloured breeding male has chestnut shoulders and blue crown and ear coverts, while non-breeding males, females and juveniles have predominantly...
  • Gouldian Finch
    Gouldian Finch

    The Gouldian Finch, Erythrura gouldiae , also known as the Lady Gouldian Finch, Gould's Finch or Rainbow Finch , is a colourful passerine bird Endemism to Australia....
  • Diamond Firetail
    Diamond Firetail

    The Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata is a species of estrildid finch found in eastern Australia, from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, to south-eastern Queensland, commonly found on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range....
  • Painted Finch


Wetlands Aviary

  • Glossy Ibis
    Glossy Ibis

    The Glossy Ibis is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae.This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean region of the Americas....
  • Yellow-billed Spoonbill
    Yellow-billed Spoonbill

    The Yellow-billed Spoonbill is common in south-east Australia, not unusual on the remainder of the continent, and a vagrant to New Zealand, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island....
  • Cattle Egret
    Cattle Egret

    The Cattle Egret is a cosmopolitan distribution species of heron found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotype genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard its two subspecies as full species....


Wallabies

  • Parma Wallaby
    Parma Wallaby

    The Parma Wallaby was first described by British naturalist John Gould in about 1840. A shy, cryptic creature of the wet sclerophyll forests of southern New South Wales, it was never common and, even before the end of the 19th century, it was believed to be extinct....
  • Red-necked Wallaby
    Red-necked Wallaby

    The Red-necked Wallaby is a medium-sized pooopiemacropod, common in the more temperate and fertile parts of eastern Australia. As one of the largest Wallaby, it can easily be mistaken for a kangaroo....
  • Swamp Wallaby
    Swamp Wallaby

    The Swamp Wallaby is a small macropod marsupial of eastern Australia. This wallaby is also commonly known as the Black Wallaby, with other names including Black-tailed Wallaby, Fern Wallaby, Black Pademelon, Stinker , and Black Stinker ....


Wombat Closeup

  • Common Wombat
    Common Wombat

    The Common Wombat , also known as the Coarse-haired Wombat, is one of three species of wombats and the only one in the Vombatus genus....
  • Short-beaked Echidna
    Short-beaked Echidna

    The Short-beaked Echidna , also known as the Spiny Anteater because of its diet of ants and termites, is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus Tachyglossus....
  • Brolga
    Brolga

    The Brolga , formerly known as the "Native Companion", is a bird in the crane family. The bird has also been given the name "Australian Crane", a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithology artist John Gould in his The Birds of Australia....


Animals of the Night

  • Northern Quoll
    Northern Quoll

    The Northern Quoll , also known as the Northern Native Cat, the Satanellus, the North Australian Native Cat or the Njanmak , is a carnivorous marsupial mammal, native to Australia....
  • Agile Antechinus
    Agile Antechinus

    The Agile Antechinus is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Australia....
  • Fat-tailed Dunnart
    Fat-tailed Dunnart

    The Fat Tailed Dunnart is a species of mouse-like marsupial of the Dasyuridae family, the family includes the Little Red Kaluta, quolls, and the Tasmanian Devil....
  • Greater Bilby
    Greater Bilby

    The Greater Bilby is the largest of the bandicoots. At 1 to 2.4 kg, the male is about the same size as a rabbit; although male animals in good condition have been known to grow up to 3.7 kg in captivity....
  • Squirrel Glider
    Squirrel Glider

    The Squirrel Glider is a gliding mammal of the marsupial Family Petauridae. It is one of the wrist-winged gliders of the Petaurus genus....
  • Sugar Glider
    Sugar Glider

    The Sugar Glider is a small marsupial originally native to eastern and northern mainland Australia, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, and introduced to Tasmania....
  • Mountain Pygmy-possum
  • Feathertail Glider
    Feathertail Glider

    The Feathertail Glider , also known as the Pygmy Gliding Possum, Pygmy Glider, Pygmy Phalanger and Flying Mouse, is the world's smallest gliding mammal, and is named for its long feather-shaped tail....
  • Rufous Bettong
  • Long-nosed Potoroo
    Long-nosed Potoroo

    The Long-nosed Potoroo is a species of Australian potoroo. It is listed as Endangered in Victoria , Vulnerable in Queensland and nationally , although the IUCN lists it as Lower Risk....
  • Spinifex Hopping-mouse
  • Barn Owl
    Barn Owl

    ?:The city in Russia is spelled Barnaul.The Barn Owl is the most Cosmopolitan distribution species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds....
  • Green Tree Frog
  • Peron's Tree Frog
    Peron's Tree Frog

    Peron's Tree Frog, Emerald Spotted Tree Frog, Laughing Tree Frog or the Maniacal Cackle Frog is a common Australian tree frog of the genus Litoria....
  • Marbled Velvet Gecko
  • Golden Spiny-tailed Gecko
  • Smooth Knob-tailed Gecko


Cockatoos

  • Australian Brush-turkey
    Australian Brush-turkey

    The Australian Brush-turkey Alectura lathami, also frequently called the Scrub Turkey or Bush Turkey, is a common, widespread species of mound-building bird from the family Megapodiidae found in eastern Australia from Far North Queensland to Illawarra in New South Wales....
  • Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
    Red-tailed Black Cockatoo

    The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo , also known as Banksian- or Bank's Black Cockatoo, is a large cockatoo native to Australia. This species was known as Calyptorhynchus magnificus for many decades until the current scientific name was officially conserved name in 1994....
  • Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
    Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

    The Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Lophochroa leadbeateri, also known as Leadbeater's Cockatoo or Pink Cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo restricted to arid and semi-arid inland areas of Australia....
  • White-headed Pigeon
    White-headed Pigeon

    The White-headed Pigeon is a pigeon native to the east coast of Australia, belonging to the same genus as the Rock Pigeon C. livia.The pigeon's habitat is from Cooktown, Queensland to southern New South Wales....
  • Brush Bronzewing
    Brush Bronzewing

    The Brush Bronzewing is a species of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests....
  • Wonga Pigeon
    Wonga Pigeon

    The Wonga Pigeon Leucosarcia melanoleuca is a dove that inhabits areas in eastern Australia with its range being from Central Queensland to Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia....
  • Emerald Dove
    Emerald Dove

    The Emerald Dove is a Dove which is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from Pakistan to Sri Lanka and east to Indonesia and northern and eastern Australia....
  • Blue-faced Honeyeater
    Blue-faced Honeyeater

    The Blue-faced Honeyeater , also colloquially known as Bananabird, is a passerine bird of the Honeyeater family Meliphagidae commonly found around the northern and eastern coasts of Australia and New Guinea....
  • Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
    Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike

    The Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike is a common omnivorous passerine bird native to Australia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It has a protected status in Australia, under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974....


Reptile Encounter

  • Brown Tree Snake
    Brown tree snake

    The Brown tree snake is an arboreal colubrid snake native to eastern and northern coastal Australia, Papua New Guinea, and a large number of islands in northwestern Melanesia....
  • Broad-headed Snake
    Broad-Headed Snake

    The Broad-Headed Snake is a venomous snake that is native to Australia. It is currently endangered in New South Wales and is listed as Vulnerable under the Commonwealth Legislation....
  • Chappell Island Tiger Snake
  • Eastern Bearded Dragon
    Eastern Bearded Dragon

    The Eastern bearded dragon, Pogona barbata, is a lizard found in wooded parts of Australia. It is most common in eastern Australia south of Cape York Peninsula, but specimens have been collected from Cape York, through central Australia, and even from the west coast of Australia....
  • Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard
    Eastern blue-tongued lizard

    The Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard is a subspecies of large skink which is common throughout Eastern Australia, often found in bushland and suburban areas where conditions are suitable....
  • Eastern Water Skink
  • Eastern Brown Snake
    Eastern brown snake

    The Eastern Brown Snake , often referred to as the Brown Snake, is an Elapidae snake native to Australia. It is one of the world's deadliest snakes....
  • Freshwater Crocodile
    Freshwater Crocodile

    The freshwater crocodile , also known as the Australian freshwater crocodile, Johnston's crocodile or colloquially as freshie, is a species of reptile Endemism to Australia....
  • Frill-necked Lizard
    Frill-necked Lizard

    The Frill-necked Lizard, or Frilled Lizard also known as the Frilled Dragon, is so called because of the large ruff of skin which usually lies folded back against its head and neck....
  • Green Tree Frog
  • Merten's Water Monitor
  • Mangrove Monitor
  • Painted Turtle
    Painted Turtle

    The Painted Turtle is a reptile that is common in southern Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico and is related to other water turtles such as Trachemys and Pseudemys....
  • Pink-tongued Lizard
  • Red-bellied Black Snake
    Red-bellied Black Snake

    The Red-bellied Black Snake, Pseudechis porphyriacus, is a Venom ous species of elapid snake native to eastern Australia. Though its venom is capable of causing significant morbidity, it is not generally fatal and less venomous than other deadly Australian snakes....
  • Rusty Desert Monitor
  • Spotted Tree Monitor
  • Taipan
    Taipan

    The taipans are a genus of large, fast, highly venom Australasian snakes....


Lyrebird Forest

  • Australian King Parrot
    Australian King Parrot

    The Australian King Parrot is endemic to eastern Australia. It is found in humid and heavily forested upland regions of the eastern portion of the continent, including eucalyptus wooded areas in and directly adjacent to subtropical and temperate rainforest....
  • White-headed Pigeon
    White-headed Pigeon

    The White-headed Pigeon is a pigeon native to the east coast of Australia, belonging to the same genus as the Rock Pigeon C. livia.The pigeon's habitat is from Cooktown, Queensland to southern New South Wales....
  • Wonga Pigeon
    Wonga Pigeon

    The Wonga Pigeon Leucosarcia melanoleuca is a dove that inhabits areas in eastern Australia with its range being from Central Queensland to Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia....
  • Emerald Dove
    Emerald Dove

    The Emerald Dove is a Dove which is a widespread resident breeding bird in tropical southern Asia from Pakistan to Sri Lanka and east to Indonesia and northern and eastern Australia....
  • Brush Bronzewing
    Brush Bronzewing

    The Brush Bronzewing is a species of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae.It is Endemism to Australia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests....
  • Superb Lyrebird
    Superb Lyrebird

    The Superb Lyrebird is a pheasant-sized songbird, approximately 100cm long, with brown upper body plumage, grayish-brown below, rounded wings and strong legs....
  • Superb Fairy-wren
    Superb Fairy-wren

    The Superb Fairy-wren , also known as Superb Blue-wren or colloquially as Blue wren, is a common and familiar passerine bird of the Maluridae family....
  • Bell Miner
    Bell Miner

    The Bell Miner, Manorina melanophrys, colloquially known as the Bellbird, is a colonial honeyeater endemic to southeastern Australia. They were given their common name because they feed almost exclusively on the dome-like coverings of certain psyllid bugs, referred to as "bell lerps," that feed on eucalyptus sap from the leaves....
  • White-naped Honeyeater
    White-naped Honeyeater

    The White-naped Honeyeater Melithreptus lunatus is a passerine bird of the Honeyeater family Meliphagidae native to eastern and south-western Australia....
  • Satin Bowerbird
    Satin Bowerbird

    The Satin Bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus is a bowerbird common in rainforest and tall wet sclerophyll forest in eastern Australia from southern Queensland to Victoria ....


Larger Wetlands Aviary

  • Australasian Shoveler
    Australasian Shoveler

    The Australasian Shoveler is a species of dabbling duck in the genus Anas. It ranges from 46-53 cm. It lives in heavily vegetated swamps....
  • Black Swan
    Black Swan

    The Black Swan is a large Wildfowl which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia....
  • Blue-billed Duck
    Blue-billed Duck

    The Blue-billed Duck is a small Australian stiff-tailed duck, with both the male and female growing to a length of 40 cm . The male has a slate-blue bill which changes to bright-blue during the breeding season, hence the duck?s common name ....
  • Chestnut Teal
    Chestnut Teal

    The Chestnut Teal is a dabbling duck found in southern Australia.The male has a distinctive green coloured head and mottled brown body. The female has a brown head and mottled brown body....
  • Darter
    Darter

    The darters or snake-birds are birds in the family Anhingidae. There are four living species, one of which is near-threatened. The darters are frequently referred to as snake-birds because of their long thin neck, which gives a snake-like appearance when they swim with their bodies submerged....
  • Freckled Duck
    Freckled Duck

    The Freckled Duck is a moderately large, broad-bodied duck native to southern Australia. The duck is protected by law. Dark in colour with fine off-white speckles all over, it is most easily identified by its large head with a peaked crown....
  • Great Cormorant
    Great Cormorant

    The Great Cormorant , known as the Great Black Cormorant across the Northern Hemisphere, the Black Cormorant in Australia and the Black Shag further south in New Zealand, is a widespread member of the cormorant family of seabirds....
  • Great Egret
    Great Egret

    The Great Egret , also known as the Great White Egret or Common Egret or Great White Heron, and called kotuku in New Zealand, is a large egret....
  • Grey Teal
    Grey Teal

    The Grey Teal, Anas gracilis is a dabbling duck found in open wetlands in New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands....
  • Little Pied Cormorant
    Little Pied Cormorant

    The Little Pied Cormorant, Little Shag or Kawaupaka is a common Australasian waterbird, found around the coasts, islands, Estuary, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the sub-Antarctic....
  • Magpie Goose
  • Pied Cormorant
    Pied Cormorant

    The Pied Cormorant , or Phalacrocorax varius, is a medium-sized member of the cormorant family. It is found around the coasts of Australasia....
  • Pied Heron
    Pied Heron

    The Pied Heron, Ardea picata, is found in coastal and subcoastal areas of monsoonal northern Australia as well as some parts of Wallacea and New Guinea....
  • Plumed Whistling-duck
  • Royal Spoonbill
    Royal Spoonbill

    The Royal Spoonbill , also known as the Black-billed Spoonbill, occurs in mudflat and shallows of fresh and saltwater wetlands in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands....
  • Straw-necked Ibis
    Straw-necked Ibis

    The Straw-necked Ibis, Threskiornis spinicollis, can be found throughout Australia, New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia. Adults have distinctive straw-like feathers on their neck....
  • White-faced Heron
    White-faced Heron

    The White-faced Heron, Egretta novaehollandiae, also known as the Blue Crane, White-fronted Heron, and incorrectly as the Grey Heron, is a common bird throughout most of Australasia, including New Guinea, the islands of Torres Strait, Indonesia, New Zealand, the islands of the Subantarctic, and all but the driest areas of Aust...


Flying Foxes

  • Grey-headed Flying-fox
  • Black-winged Stilt
    Black-winged Stilt

    The 'Black-winged Stilt', 'Himantopus himantopus', is a widely distibuted very long-legged wader in the avocet and stilt family . Opinions differ as to whether the birds treated under the scientific name H....


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