The Park is located within a biodiversity hotspot, providing habitat for a range of native fauna species and acting an important haven for migratory birds.
The conservation area of the Park encompasses essential breeding and feeding habitats for these itinerant species as well as a natural area within the surrounding urban environment where mammals, birds and reptiles can thrive.
Over fifty years of scientific surveys, staff sightings and more recent fauna translocations has resulted in a huge number of different species being recorded as residing or visiting the bushland and wetlands found here. As a result, the Park is a refuge for:
- three native fish species and the yinbi/Carter's freshwater mussel
- nine amphibian species, including the clicking and the motorbike frogs
- 16 mammal species, such as the elusive short-beaked echidna and the Critically Endangered woylie
- 38 reptile species, from the king skink to the long necked turtle
- 122 bird species, including the wedge-tailed eagle from which the Park takes its logo
- and hundreds of invertebrate species.
Learn more about some of these species in the following pages.
