Hunter Valley Wildlife Park
| Hunter Valley Wildlife Park | |
|---|---|
Nulkaba, New South Wales, Australia | |
| Land area | 18 acres |
| No. of species | 110+ |
| Memberships | Zoo and Aquarium Association |
| Owner | Australian Wildlife Parks |
| Website | www |
Hunter Valley Wildlife Park, formerly Hunter Valley Zoo, is a zoo in
Nulkaba, New South Wales, Australia.[1] It features a wide variety of Australian and exotic mammals, birds and reptiles.[2]
Founded in 2007 as the Hunter Valley Zoo, in July 2021 it was purchased by Australian Wildlife Parks and in November 2021 rebranded as Hunter Valley Wildlife Park.[3][4][5]
Species list
- Birds
Australian native
- Apostlebird
- Australian bustard
- Australian figbird
- Black swan
- Black-necked stork
- Black-fronted dotterel
- Black-throated finch
- Bourke's parrot
- Bush stone-curlew
- Cape Barren goose
- Channel-billed cuckoo
- Chestnut-breasted mannikin
- Cockatiel
- Diamond dove
- Dusky woodswallow
- Eastern spinebill
- Forest kingfisher
- Galah
- Glossy ibis
- Gouldian finch
- Great bowerbird
- Green pygmy goose
- Inland dotterel
- Laughing kookaburra
- Little corella
- Long-tailed finch
- Major Mitchell's cockatoo
- Nankeen kestrel
- Noisy pitta
- Pacific emerald dove
- Painted finch
- Pheasant coucal
- Pied heron
- Pied stilt
- Plumed whistling duck
- Purple-crowned lorikeet
- Radjah shelduck
- Rainbow bee-eater
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Red-collared lorikeet.
- Red-tailed black cockatoo
- Regent bowerbird
- Scaly-breasted lorikeet
- Spiny-cheeked honeyeater
- Splendid fairywren
- Spotted bowerbird
- Star finch
- Tawny frogmouth
- Torresian crow
- Varied lorikeet
- Wandering whistling duck
- White-breasted woodswallow
- White-cheeked honeyeater
- White-fronted chat
- White-winged fairywren
- Wonga pigeon
Exotic
- Blue and gold macaw
- Ostrich
- Egyptian goose
- Indian peafowl (including albino)
- Red junglefowl
- Red-whiskered bulbul
- Sun conure
- Yellow-crowned amazon
- Mammals
Australian native
- Agile wallaby
- Alpine dingo
- Bennett's wallaby (including albino)
- Common wombat
- Koala
- Red kangaroo (including albino)
- Rufous bettong
- Short-beaked echidna
- Southern hairy nosed wombat
- Spectacled flying fox
- Tasmanian devil
- Western grey kangaroo (including albino)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
Domestic
Exotic
- African lion (including white-coated)
- Barbary sheep
- Binturong
- Black handed spider monkey
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Blackbuck
- Bolivian squirrel monkey
- Capybara
- Caracal
- Common marmoset
- Cotton-top tamarin
- Dromedary camel
- Emperor tamarin
- Fallow deer
- Giraffe
- Golden lion tamarin
- Maned wolf
- Meerkat
- Patagonian mara
- Plains zebra
- Pygmy marmoset
- Red-handed tamarin
- Red-rumped agouti
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Serval
- Tufted capuchin
- Reptiles
Australian native
Exotic
Gallery
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Long-billed corella -
Common wombat -
Rainbow lorikeet -
(Albino) Indian peafowl
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References
- ^ "ZAA Accredited Member Location Map". Zoo and Aquarium Association. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Our Animals". Hunter Valley Zoo. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ Domestic tourism impetus drives Elanor’s Hunter Valley Zoo purchase Australian Financial Review 12 July 2021
- NBN Television18 July 2021
- ^ Hunter Valley Zoo relaunches as Hunter Valley Wildlife Park Cessnock Advertiser 19 November 2021
External links
Media related to Hunter Valley Zoo at Wikimedia Commons- Official website
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Tourist Drive 33.
