Animals in your backyard

Do you know what native animals visit your back yard? I have a small to medium sized block in the northern suburbs of Brisbane and I am amazed at the number of species that do frequent my backyard throughout the year.

Here is an initial list of species that I know have visited my backyard over the last five years:

• Australian magpie
• Southern boobook
• Little wattlebird
• Silvereyes
• Brown honeyeater
• Scaly-breasted lorikeet
• Rainbow lorikeet
• Green tree frog
• Laughing kookaburra
• Torresian crow (a lot of them)
• Australian white ibis
• Azure kingfisher
• Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
• Blue-faced honeyeater
• Crested pigeon
• Figbird
• Magpie-lark
• Noisy miner
• Pied butcherbird
• Spangled drongo
• Sulphur-crested cockatoo
• Pheasant coucal
• White-faced heron
• Eastern reef egret
• Willie wagtail
• Blue-tongued lizard

Nasty pest species that come and visit my backyard all too often:

• Common myna
• Cane toad
• Feral pigeon (or rock dove)
• Spotted dove

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