Creatures living on the Barwon
Another list… those in italics are non-native species. I’ll be updating it periodically. Hopefully one day I’ll be able to include platypus!
Feel free to add your own wildlife observations or links to your photos of listed species, below.
Creatures I’ve seen on and beside Barwon River, Geelong
(2008-)
Mammals
Water rat
Black rat
Birds
Australasian Grebe
Australian Darter
Australian Magpie
Australian Pelican
Chestnut Teal (duck)
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot (lots of chicks!)
Golden Whistler
Grey Fantail
Little Black Cormorant
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Raven
Magpie-lark
Pacific Black Duck
Pied Currawong
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red Wattlebird
Silver Gull
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Superb Blue Wren
Thornbill (which?)
Welcome Swallow
White-browed Scrubwren
Willie Wagtail
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
A highlight this year was coming across a young class scrutinising waterbugs. They were dividing them into groups, using ice cube freezer trays:
Backswimmers
Brine shrimp
Caddisfly nymph with ‘house’
Dragonfly larvae
Water mites
Insects
Dragonflies ~ both red and blue ones, species unknown
Frogs
Eastern Common Froglet
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