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
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