Fauna list for Victoria River area

 

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Last update 11th July 2016

 

 This List is from the 

Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Atlas of Victoria Wildlife PO Box 137, Heidelberg, 3084 Victoria Australia.

2005.

This list is not full list there are many more not yet recorded in the Atlas.

 42 Bird species have been recorded at or near the dam. 

Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae
Australasian little grebe Tachybaputs novaehollandiae
Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
Grey Teal Anas gibberifrons 
Hardhead Aythya australis
Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum
Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans
Azure Kingfisher Ceyx azureus
Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo gigas
Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla
Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
White-naped Honeyeater Melithreptus lunatus
White-eared Honeyeater Lichenostomus leucotis
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina papuensis
Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterus
Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
Grey Shrike Thrush Colluricincla harmonica
Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris
Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cuculus pyrrhophanus
Horshfield's Cuckoo Chrysococcyx basalis
Little Raven Corvus mellori
Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
Pied Currawong Strepera graculina
Grey Currawong Strepera versicolor
Grey Fantail  Rhipidura fuliginosa
White-throated Treecreeper Chimacteris leucophaea
Flame Robin Petroica phoenicea
Yellow-faced Honeyeater Lichenostomus chrysops
Leaden Flycatcher Myiagra rubecula 
Southern Boobook Ninox novaeseelandiae
Powerful Owl Ninox strenua
Yellow- tailed Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus funereus
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum
Australian Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles cristatus
Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis
Bell Miner Manorina melanophrys
Pied Currawong Strepera graculina
Australian Raven Corvus coronoides
Common Blackbird Turdus merula
The latest up date to this bird list was made 23-11-05 to 25-11-05 by Howard Plowright and Jim McNabb.

Mammals

Platypus ornithorhynchus anatinus
Spot-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus
Eastern Quoll Dasyurus viverrinus
Mountain Brushtail Possum Trichosurus caninus
Greater Glider Petauroides volans
Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus austral is
Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps
Koala Phascolarctos cinereus
Common Wombat Vombatus ursinus
Bush Rat Rattus fuscipes
Sambar Cervus unicolor
Red Fox Canis vulpes

Reptiles

White-lipped Snake Drysdalia coronoides
Copper-tailed Skink Ctenotus taeniolatus
McCoy's Skink Nannoscincus maccoyi
Delicate Skink Lampropholis delicata
Garden Skink Lampropholis guichenoti
Black Rock Skink Egernia saxatilis intermedia
Yellow-bellied Water Skink Eulamprus heatwolei (WTF)

Frogs

Dendy's Toadlet Pseudophryne dendyi
Lesueur's Frog Litoria Lesueuri
Australian Grayling Prototroctes maraena
Australian Bass

 

Macquaria novemaculeata

All species in red are introduced and not Australian natives.

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