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| Stop 3: Animals of the rainforest |
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The list below is not comprehensive
and is intended only to illustrate the number of species
in the rainforest and show its biodiversity
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Birdlife
Water birds
Hawks and eagles
Pigeons and doves
Cockatoos and parrots
Cuckoos
Owls and frogmouths
Kingfishers
Rollers
Lyrebirds
Cuckoo-shrikes
Thrushes
Flycatchers and allies
Logrunners, whipbirds
Wrens, thornbills
and warblers
Treecreepers
Finches and allies
Magpies and ravens
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Reptiles
Snakes
Eastern tiger snake C
Red-bellied black snake C
Golden crowned snake O
Diamond python C
Common tree snake R
Lizards
Eastern water skink C
Eastern blue-tongued lizard O
Eastern
water dragon C
Long-necked tortoise R
Frogs
Leaf green tree frog
Barred frog
Great barred frog
Giant barred frog
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Mammals
Monotremes
Platypus R
Short-beaked echidna O
Marsupials
Eastern pygmy possum O
Feathertail glider O
Spotted -tailed quoll O
Brown antechinus C
Dusky antechinus C
Swamp wallaby O
Long-nosed bandicoot R
Common ringtail possum O
Greater glider O
Sugar glider O
Mountain brushtail possum O
Common brushtail possum C
Long-nosed potoroo R
Common wombat O
Placental Mammals
Water rat O
Bush rat C
Swamp rat O
Grey-headed flying fox O
Introduced Mammals
Black rat O
House mouse O
Cat O
Fox O
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Key (Status at Minnamurra Rainforest)
C = Common
O = Occasional
R = Rare
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