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Birds, mammals and butterflies of Sherbrooke Forest are listed below.
BIRDS OF SHERBROOKE FOREST
The friends of Sherbrooke Forest agree with the view that wild animals should
not be fed. The reasons for this are given in an
article published by NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change .
| Ground Layer |
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Tree Tops |
| Blackbird* |
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Australian Raven |
| Brush Bronzewing |
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Blue-winged Parrot |
| Pilot Bird |
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Boobook Owl |
| Scaly Thrush or Bassian Thrush |
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Brown Goshawk |
| Song Thrush* |
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Brown-headed Honeyeater |
| Superb Blue Wren |
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Brush Cuckoo |
| Superb Lyrebird |
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Crimson Rosella |
| Scrub-wren (White-browed)
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Eastern Rosella |
| Fan-tailed Cuckoo |
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Gang-Gang Cockatoo |
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Golden-bronze Cuckoo |
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Grey Currawong |
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Laughing Kookaburra |
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Mistletoe-bird |
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Nankeen Kestrel |
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Peregrine Falcon |
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Pied Currawong |
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Powerful Owl
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Sulphur-Crested White Cockatoo |
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Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo |
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| Shrub Layer |
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Shrub Layer |
| Fantail Cuckoo |
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Pink Robin
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| Grey Fantail |
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Rose Robin |
| Rufous Fantail |
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Scarlet Robin |
| Red-browed Firetail |
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Scrub-wren (Large-billed) |
| Satin Flycatcher |
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Silvereye |
| Goldfinch* |
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Shrike-tit |
| Greenfinch* |
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Grey Shrike-thrush
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| Crescent Honeyeater
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Eastern Spinebill |
| White-eared Honeyeater |
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Brown Thornbill |
| White-naped Honeyeater |
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Little Thornbill |
| Yellow-faced Honeyeater |
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Red Wattlebird |
| Owlet Nightjar |
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Eastern Whipbird |
| Spotted Pardalote |
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Golden Whistler |
| Striated Pardalote |
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Olive Whistler |
| Eastern Yellow Robin |
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Rufous Whistler |
| Flame Robin |
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| Tree Trunks |
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Aerial |
| Red-browed Tree-creeper |
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Spine-tailed Swift |
| White-throated Tree-creeper |
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Wedge-tailed Eagle |
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In addition , the Sherbrooke Lyrebird Group have reported sightings of:
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Crested Shrike-tit
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Pacific Black Duck with chicks
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Sooty Owl
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Southern Boobook
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Tawny Frogmouth
| MAMMALS OF SHERBROOKE FOREST |
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| Scientific Name |
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Common Name |
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| Antechinus swainsonii |
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Dusky Antechinus |
| Mastacomys fuscus |
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Broad-toothed Rat |
| Antechinus stuartii |
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Brown Antechinus |
| Trichosurus vulpecula |
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Brushtail possum |
| Tachyglossus aculeatus |
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Echidna |
| Schoinobates volans |
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Greater Glider |
| Perameles nasuta |
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Long-nosed Bandicoot |
| Rattus fuscipes |
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Native Rat |
| Acrobates pygmaeus |
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Pygmy or Feathertail Glider |
| Pseudocheirus peregrinus |
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Ringtail Possum |
| Trichosurus caninus |
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Short-eared Brushtail Possum |
| Isoodon obesulus |
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Short-nosed Bandicoot |
| Petaurus breviceps |
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Sugar Glider |
| Wallabia bicolor |
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Swamp Wallaby |
| Rattus lutreolus |
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Water Rat |
| Vombatus ursinus |
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Wombat |
| Petaurus australis |
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Yellow-bellied Glider |
BUTTERFLIES AND THEIR FOOD PLANTS
| Scientific name |
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Common name |
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Larval Food Plants |
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| Argynnina cyrila |
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Cyril`s brown |
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Poa species |
| Delias aganippe |
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Wood white |
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Emeyema species/Exocarpus cupressiformis |
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| Delias harpalyce |
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Imperial white |
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Muellerina eucalyptoides |
| Dispar compacta |
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Dispar skipper |
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Poa tenera/Poa species |
| Geitonura acantha |
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Eastern-ringed xenica |
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Poa species |
| Geitonura klugii |
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Klug`s xenica |
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Poa species |
| Graphium macleayanum |
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Macleay`s swallowtail |
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Atherosperma moschatum |
| Hesperilla chaostola |
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Chaostola skipper |
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Gahnia species |
| Hesperilla ornata |
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Spotted skipper |
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Gahnia species/Carex appressa |
| Heteronympha banksii |
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Bank`s brown |
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Poa species |
| Heteronympha merope |
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Common brown |
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Poa tenera/Themeda triandra |
| Heteronympha paradelpha |
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Spotted brown |
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Poa species |
| Heteronympha penelope |
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Shouldered brown |
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Poa species |
| Heteronympha solandri |
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Solander`s brown |
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Poa species |
| Hypochrysops byzos |
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Yellowspot jewel |
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Pomaderris aspera |
| Hypochrysops delicia |
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Blue jewel |
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Acacia species |
| Jalmenus evagoras |
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Common imperial blue |
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Acacia dealbata |
| Junonia villida |
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Meadow argus |
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Plantago debilis/Goodenia ovata |
| Nacabuba biocellata |
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Double-spotted lineblue |
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Acacia species |
| Ocybadistes walken |
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Yellow banded dart |
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Poa species/Dianella species |
| Oreisplanus peromatus |
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Mountain spotted skipper |
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Gahnia sieberana |
| Oreixenica kershawi |
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Kershaw`s brown |
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Poa species |
| Oreixenica lathoniella |
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Common silver xenica |
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Microlaena stipoides/Poa species |
| Polyura pyrrhus |
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Tailed emperor |
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Acacia dealbata |
| Pseudalmenus chlorinda |
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Orange hairstreak |
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Acacia dealbata |
| Pseudalmenus chlorinda |
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Orange hairstreak |
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Acacia dealbata/Acacia melanoxylon |
| Signeta flammeata |
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Bright shield skipper |
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Poa species |
| Taractrocera papyria |
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White grassdart |
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Microlaena stipoides |
| Tisiphone abeona |
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Swordgrass brown |
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Gahnia sieberana |
| Toxidia andersoni |
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Anderson`s skipper |
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Tetrarrhena juncea |
| Toxidia doubledayi |
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Doubleday`s skipper |
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Poa species |
| Vanessa cardui |
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Painted lady |
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Asteracea & Malvaceae species |
| Vanessa itea |
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Australian admiral |
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Urtica incisa |
| Zizina labradus |
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Common grass-blue |
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Indigofera & Glycine species |
References
Ross Field--Butterfly species in Sherbrooke Forest (unpublished)
F.B Common & D.F Waterhouse-Butterflies of Australia .Angus
& Robertson 1981
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