Linda and Roger's Southwater Downs - Animals

This page is to contain information about animals that are, or could be, on the property.

It's a place-marker right now, with only a couple of preliminary entries.

We're still developing a set of resources for fauna of the area.

We now have a list of a little over 300 species of fauna that have been sighted within 5km of Southwater Downs, although of course many of them would not be residents of the rainforest.

See also:

• Frogs of the Southern Highlands and Illawarra
• Threatened Species of the Sydney Cataract CMA Sub-Region
• The annoying Fly site

Native Mammals

We've seen a rat scurry past.

But most are nocturnal.

Monotremes

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Native Reptiles

We've seen a couple of small native frogs, incl. an unidentified one (photo below).

Native Birds

~ Resident / Sedentary:

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~ Migratory:

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~ Occasional:

• Raptors:
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• Medium-Sized Birds:
  • Brown Cuckoo-Dove. This is a startling, dark-russet bird, 40cm long. It sat briefly on a limb 5m from Carole and 15m from the rest of us, on 27 March 2011. It's only the second we've seen, after one at Tanja a few years ago (north of Tathra)
  • Channel-Billed Cuckoo. This is slightly longer again, and white and grey. It was perched on a high dead limb above the northern forest on 27 March 2011
• Small Birds:
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Insects

There's a mass of things in the forest litter

Arachnids

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Ferals

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Pictures of Animals

For larger images, click on the thumbnails below:

A Frog - 27 March 2011 Remarkably, I couldn't identify it among the 31 species in Frogs of the Southern Highlands and Illawarra!

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Created: 29 March 2011; Last Amended: 10 April 2011