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Family fun day at Hastings Thermal Springs

13/11/2009

Hastings Cave is throwing open the doors to the thermal springs pool for a family fun day on Saturday, 28 November.
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Planned fuel reduction burn in the southwest

29/10/2009

The Parks and Wildlife Service and Forestry Tasmania are conducting a planned burn in the Southwest National Park and on lands managed by Forestry Tasmania today.
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Volunteer Campground Hosts Sought for Cockle Creek

21/10/2009

The Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS) is seeking people with a passion for the beautiful Cockle Creek area in Tasmania's far south area to be volunteer campground hosts for several weeks during the coming summer.More

Mt Field National Park

Animal Species List

The following lists provide information on species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and some invertebrates recorded at Mt Field. Reports of new sightings are welcome.


 

MAMMALS

Native

Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus
Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus
Eastern Quoll Dasyurus viverrinus
Tasmanian Devil Sarcophilus harrisii
Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus
Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii
Common Wombat Vombatus ursinus
Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps
Common Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus
Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula
Little Pygmy-possum Cercartetus lepidus
Eastern Pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus
Tasmanian Bettong Bettongia gaimardi
Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus apicalis
Bennetts Wallaby Macropus rufogriseus
Tasmanian Pademelon Thylogale billardierii
Chocolate Wattled Bat Chalinolobus morio
King River Vespadelus Vespadelus regulus
Little Forest Vespadelus Vespadelus vulturnus
Tasmanian Pipistrelle Falsistrellus tasmaniensis
Lesser Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus geoffroyi
Greater Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus timoriensis
Water Rat Hydromys chrysogaster
Long-tailed Mouse Pseudomys higginsi
Swamp Rat Rattus lutreolus velutinus

Introduced

Rabbit Orystolagus cuniculus cuniculus
Cats (feral & domestic) Felis catus
House Mouse Mus musculus

BIRDS

Native

Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo novaehollandiae
Little Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax melanoleucos melanoleucos
Little Black Cormorant Phalavocorax sulcirostris
White-faced Heron Ardea novaehollandiae
Chestnut Teal Anas castanea
Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa superciliosa
Black Swan Cygnus atratus
Collared Sparrowhawk Accipiter cirrhocephalus cirrhocephalus
Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus fasciatus
Grey (White) Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae novaehollandiae
Wedge-tailed Eagle Aquila audax fleayi
Marsh Harrier. Circus (approximans) aeruginosus gouldi
Brown Falcon (Tasmanian) Falco berigora tasmanica
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus macropus
Swamp Quail (ssp.of Brown) Coturnix australis ysilophorus
Tasmanian Native-hen Gallinula mortierii
Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio melanotus
Lewin's Rail Rallus (Dryolimnas)pectoralis brachipus
Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles novaehollandiae
Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii
Silver Gull Larus novaehollandiae novaehollandiae
Brush Bronzewing Phaps elegans
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita galerita
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus funereus xanthanotus
Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor
Blue-winged Parrot Neophema chrysostoma
Green Rosella Platycercus caledonicus
Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo Chrysococsyx basalis
Shining Bronze-cuckoo Chrysococsyx lucidus plagosus
Pallid Cuckoo Cuculus pallidus
Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cuculuspyrrhophanus prionurus
Southern Boobook Ninox novaeseelandiae lucopus
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae castanops
Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides strigoides
Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae novaeguineae
Tree Martin Cevopis nigricans nigricans
Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
Richard's Pipit Anthus novaehollandiae
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae
Grey Shrike-thrush Colluriaincla harmonica harmonica
Dusky Robin Melanodryas vittata
Satin Flycatcher Myiagra cyanoleuca
Olive Whistler Pachycephala olivacea
Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis
Scarlet Robin Petroica multicolor boodang
Flame Robin Petroica phoenicea
Pink Robin Petroica rodinogaster
Grey Fantail Rhipidurafuliginosa albiscapa
White's Thrush (scaly) Zoothera dauma lunalata
Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus cyaneus
Southern Emu-wren Stipiturus malachurus littleri
Yellow-rumped Thombill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
Tasmanian Thornbill Acanthiza ewingii
Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla diemenensis
Tasmanian Scrubwren Sericornis humilus
Striated Field wren (Calamanthus) Sericornis fuliginosus
Scrubtit Sericornis magnus
Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris
Yellow Wattlebird Anthochaera paradoxa
Yellow-throated Honeyeater Lichenostomus flavicollis
Black-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus affinis
Strong-billed Honeyeater Melithreptus validirostris
New Holland Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae canescens
Crescent Honeyeater Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera inornata
Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus ornatus
Silvereye Zosterops lateralis lateralis
Beautiful Firetail Emblema bella
Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterus cyanopterus
Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatuscinereus
Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen hypoleuca
Black Currawong Strepera fuliginosa
Grey (clinking) Currawong Strepera versicolor arguta
Forest Raven Corrus tasmanicus tasmanicus

Introduced

Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae
Common Skylark Alauda arvensis
Common Blackbird Turdus merula
European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
European Greenfinch Carduelis chloris
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris

 

REPTILES

She-oak Skink Cyclodomorpus casuarinae
White's Skink Egernia whitii
Metallic Skink Niveoscincus metallicus
Southern Snow Skink Niveoscincus microlepidotus
Ocellated Skink Niveoscincus ocellatus
Mountain Skink Niveoscincus orocryptus*
Tasmanian Tree Skink Niveoscincus pretiosus
Southern Grass Skink Pseudemoia entrecasteuxii
Blotched Blue-tongue Tiliqua nigrolutea
White-lipped Snake Drysdalia coronoides
Tiger Snake Notechis ater

*not recorded from the area but may occur here.


 

AMPHIBIANS

Tasmanian Froglet Crinia tasmaniensis
Brown froglet Crinia signifera
Banjo Frog Limnodynastes dumerili
Brown Tree Frog Litoria ewingi

 

BUTTERFLIES

Native

Dominula Skipper Anisynta dominula
Donnysa Skipper Hesperilla donnysa
Flame Skipper Hesperilla idothea
Yellow-banded Dart Ocybadistes walkeri
White Grassdart Taractrocera papyria
Macleay's Swallowtail Graphium macleayanum
Hobart Brown Argynnina hobartia
Klug's Xenica Geitoneura klugi
Common Brown Heteronympha merope
Shouldered Brown Heteronympha penelope
Leprea Brown Nesoxenica leprea
Silver Xenica Oreixenica lathoniella
Meadow Argus Junonia villida
Australian Admiral Vanessa itea
Australian Painted Lady Vanessa kershawi
Bright Copper Paralucia aurifera
Mountain Blue Neolucia hobartensis
Common Grass Blue Zizinia labradus

Introduced

Cabbage White Pieris rapae

 

ARTHROPODA

Arachnida
Hexathelidae Plesiothele fentoni
Insecta
Carabidae Geodetrechus parallelus
Geometridae Dirce aesiodora

Plesanemma altafucata
Hydrobiosidae Poecilochorema evansi
Hydropsychidae Diplectrona castanea
Lycaenidae Neolucia hobartensis hobartensis
Petaliidae Archipetalia auriculata
Psocidae Blaste falcifer
Synthemidae Synthemiopsis gomphomacromioid
Onychophora
Peripatopsidae Ooperipatellus insignis

 

ASCEHELMINTHES

Rotifers
Monogononta Ascomorpha ecaudis

Cephalodella remanei

Colurella uncinata

Eothinia elongata

Euchlanis meneta

Keratella slacki

Lacinularia flosculosa

Lepadella patella

Macrochaetus collinsi
Testudinella Testudinella amphora

Trichocerca porcellus

Trichocerca pusilla

Trichocerca scipio