Wildlife on the Araucaria property

Here are some of the animals we have seen on the Araucaria property at Running Creek Road, via Rathdowney, Queensland

MAMMALS Placentals bush rat - common swamp rat - fairly common fawn-footed melomys- fairly common water rat - occasional sighting grey-headed flying-fox - fairly common black flying fox fox - fairly common little red flying-fox - fairly common Gould's long-eared bat - occasional sighting other microbats common fox (feral)  - occasional cat (feral)  - occasional hare (feral)  - common	MAMMALS Marsupials brush-tailed phascogale - occasional sighting yellow-footed antechinus - common common dunnart - occasional sighting northern brown bandicoot - common koala - sometimes, especially spring-summer squirrel glider - sometimes feather-tail glider? - occasional possible sighting common brushtail possum - common mountain brushtail possum - occasional sighting red-necked pademelon - sometimes red-necked wallaby - common eastern grey kangaroo  - years ago, no longer here Monotremes platypus - fairly common, especially July - December echidna - occasional sighting
BIRDS  -  NON-PASSERINES brush turkey - sometimes brown quail - common black-breasted button-quail - occasional sighting little pied cormorant - common little black cormorant - sometimes black duck - common wood duck - sometimes nankeen night-heron white-faced heron - sometimes intermediate egret - occasional dusky moor-hen - sometimes masked lapwing - occasional, common nearby brown falcon - occasional Pacific baza - occasional wedge-tailed eagle - occasional white-breasted sea-eagle  - occasional osprey - occasional brown cuckoo dove - common rose-crowned fruit dove - occasional crested pigeon - fairly common bar-shouldered dove - common topknot pigeon - occasional crimson rosella -  occasional eastern rosella - occasional pale-headed rosella - fairly common scaly-breasted lorikeet - fairly common king parrot - sometimes rainbow lorikeet - fairly common galah - very common yellow-tailed black cockatoo - occasional sulphur-crested cockatoo - very occasional channel-billed cuckoo  - warm months (Oct - March) koel - warm months (Oct - March) fan-tailed cuckoo - -sometimes brush cuckoo - common in warm months pheasant coucal - fairly common barn owl - common boobook owl - fairly common tawny frog-mouth - fairly common dollarbird - common in warm months rainbow bee-eater - occasional forest kingfisher - occasional Sacred Kingfisher - occasional azure kingfisher - occasional laughing kookaburra - very common	BIRDS - PASSERINES noisy pitta  - occasional varied sitella  - occasional white-throated tree-creeper - occasional red-backed fairy-wren - common variegated fairy-wren - sometimes superb fairy-wren - sometimes white-throated gerygone - sometimes brown gerygone - occasional buff-rumped thornbill - occasional striated thornbill - occasional brown thornbill - sometimes white-browed scrub-wren - common striated pardalote - common spotted pardalote - fairly common noisy miner - very common blue-faced honeyeater - occasional Lewin's Honeyeater - very common brown honeyeater - occasional noisy friarbird - occasional little friarbird - occasional yellow-faced honeyeater  - occasional white-throated honeyeater - occasional scarlet honeyeater - occasional  eastern spinebill - occasional eastern whipbird - very common eastern yellow robin - common grey shrike-thrush - common little shrike-thrush - occasional golden whistler - sometimes, in cooler months rufous whistler - occasional white-eared monarch - occasional magpie-lark - very common grey fantail - common willy wagtail - common restless flycatcher - occasional leaden flycatcher - occasional spangled drongo - occasional figbird  - common in warm months olive-backed oriole catbird - occasional regent bowerbird - occasional blackfaced cuckooshrike - occasional varied triller - occasional Australian magpie - very common pied butcherbird - common grey butcherbird - common pied currawong - very common Torresian crow - very common welcome swallow  - very common double-bar finch - occasional red-browed finch - fairly common zebra finch - occasional (feral common mynah - occasional)
REPTILES Turtles short-necked turtle -very common in warm months long-necked turtle - only seen once, after heavy flooding Lizards (warm months) bearded dragon - fairly common eastern water dragon - fairly common lace monitor - fairly common land mullet - occasional major skink - fairly common various small skinks - fairly common (also the  feral Asian house gecko) Snakes  (warm months) green tree snake - fairly common  brown tree snake - fairly common carpet python - common  blind snakes - rarely seen (burrowers) small-eyed snake - fairly common yellow-faced whip-snake - fairly common red-bellied black snake - occasional	AMPHIBIANS (mostly warm months) Tree frogs broad-palmed rocket frog Litoria latopalmata - common eastern sedge-frog Litoria fallax - sometimes green tree frog Litoria caerula  - very common stony creek frog Litoria leseuri - common bleating tree frog Litoria dentata - common whistling tree frog Litoria verreauxi - common in winter orange-eyed tree frog Litoria -sometimes Southern frogs striped marsh-frog Lymnodynatses peronii - common spotted marsh-frog Lymnodynatses tasmaniensis -sometimes clicking froglet Crinia signifera -common in winter ornate burrowing frog Lymnodynatses ornatus - common great barred frog Mixophyes fasiculatus - common (also the introduced cane toad Bufo marinus) FISH long-finned eel - fairly common eel-tailed catfish -  common Australian smelt - very common freshwater mullet - fairly common