Saturday, August 13, 2011

Census Time

Given that we've just accounted for ourselves in various ways via the census, I thought it apt to provide a census of sorts relating to the vertebrates who we share this place with. Now the bird list is way, way incomplete (sorry, I'm just not a birdo), and no doubt I am yet to add to the frog and reptile list (I have no doubt that there are brown snakes on the property, I just am yet to see one), but it will give you a reasonable idea of the fauna here:

Mammals (4)

Red necked wallaby

Common Antechinus

Brown Bandicoot

Grey headed fruit bat

Fish (3)

Perch

Catfish

Eel

Frogs (7)

Green Tree Frog

Dwarf Tree Frog

Peron’s Tree Frog

Bleating Tree Frog

Dainty Tree Frog

Rocket Frog

Striped Marsh Frog

Reptiles (14)

Carpet Python

Green Tree Snake

Brown Tree Snake (dead on road near bridge)

Yellow Faced Whip Snake (dead on road near bridge and above culvert)

Small Eyed Snake

Bandy Bandy (on road near Cawongla)

Rhamphotyphlops sp

Bearded Dragon

Eastern Water Dragon

Grass Skink

Bouton's Three Lined Skink

Lace Monitor

Long Necked Turtle

Short Necked Turtle

Birds (57)

Masked Lapwing

Brush Turkey

Brown Quail

Australian Wood Duck

Pacific Black Duck

Little Pied Cormorant

Straw Necked Ibis

White faced Heron

Black Shouldered Kite

Pacific Baza

Wedge tailed Eagle

Grey Goshawk

Nankeen Kestrel

Peregrine Falcon

Buff banded Rail

Spotted turtle Dove

Crested Pigeon

White-headed Pigeon

Brown Cuckoo-Dove

Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo

Galah

Rainbow Lorikeet

King Parrot

Eastern Rosella

Crimson Rosella

Common Koel

Channel Billed Cuckoo

Pheasant Coucal

Barn Owl

Tawny Frogmouth

Kookaburra

Azure Kingfisher

Sacred Kingfisher

Rinbow Bee-eater

Dollarbird

Superb Blue fairywren

Red-backed Fairywren

Little wattlebird

Red wattlebird

Blue-faced Honeyeater

Noisy Miner

Eastern Whip-Bird

Grey Fantail

Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike

Olive-backed Oriole

Figbird

Pied Butcherbird

Magpie Lark

Australian Magpie

Pied Currawong

Spangled Drongo

Australian Raven

Satin Bowerbird

Willy Wagtail

Zebra Finch

Mannikin

Welcome Swallow

4 comments:

Louise said...

That's such a fabulous idea! And what a wealth of biodiversity you have there. Glad you haven't had any brown snake sightings though.

Mutterings from Maryville said...

yeah it's a pretty biodiverse area....the Border Ranges which are about 20km from here are known as a bioversity hotspot

lol, I hope to see a brown snake on the property this spring!

Dr. Mieke said...

Um, are the wallabies etc mammals or marsupials? Both vertebrates, yes ... Are marsupials an infraclass of mammals? Hmmm.... Lovely list of sightings, though! We lead such rich lives ...
PS the word verification I have here is "mackeroo": a cross between a mackerel and a kangaroo? -D

Erica said...

impressive bird list, Kev, and also your frog list is great, too! Just saw old common antechinus jumping on top of my stove as I was reading 'common antechnius' on your list. Must be nearing spring because they are all going crazy and probably breeding everywhere - like in the sock drawer.