Wildlife
Watching Melbourne: Thanks to the city's wonderful gardens and
parklands wildlife abounds.Black swans, Cormorants, Ducks, Moorhens,
Coots and Flying Foxes live in the Botanic Gardens.
The Ringtail,
White tipped Tail and Brushtail Possums rummage after dark in the
Fitzroy and Alexandra Gardens. Bottlenose dolphins and seals
frolic off Sorrento and Queenscliff.
Phillip Island is home to
fairy penguins and koalas.
Muttonbirds nest near Port
Campbell
between September and April. Southern Right Whales breed from
June to September at Logans Beach east of Warrnambool.
At Halls
Gap in the Grampians there are koalas, eastern grey kangaroos,
wallabies, sugar gliders, possums owls and long billed
corellas.
Wyperfeld National Park is home to emus, kangaroos, wedge-tailed
eagles, regent parrot and mallee fowl.
Little Desert National
Park also has mallee fowl along with insectivorous bats and short
beaked Echidnas.
At dusk in the Mount Buffalo National Park
you will see the Common Wombat. The Park also houses Crimson
Rosellas and the Flame Robin.
Over on the east coast you may spot
a dingo but you will more likely see glossy Black Cockatoos, King
Parrots and Lyrebirds.
Wilsons Promontory National Park has
Eastern Grey Kangaroos, Emus, Wombats, Muttonbirds, Kookaburras, Flame
Robins and at Easter, flocks of Rainbow
Lorikeets.
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