Flora & Fauna

The diverse flora in the Reserve provides valuable habitat to a wide range of wildlife:

• Snow Gums in the upper reserve
• Manna Gums to Coastal Banksias and Sheoaks
• Melaleuca scrub, ferns, and indigenous orchids and grasses along the creekline

Resident mammals and marsupials include:

• koalas
• grey kangaroos
• black-tail wallabies
• echidnas
• sugar gliders
• bats
• brushtail and ringtail possums
• agile antechinus
• native swamp rats.

Reptiles and amphibians include:

• blue-tongue lizards
• numerous smaller skinks
• copperhead and tiger snakes
• tree frogs
• toadlets
• long neck turtles

There are over 75 species of birds including:

• kookaburras
• white and black cockatoos
• parrots and rosellas
• hawks
• currawongs
• honey eaters
• fly catchers
• wrens
• finches