Territory Wildlife Park
Territory Wildlife Park | |
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12°42′37″S 130°59′23″E / 12.7102°S 130.9898°E | |
Date opened | 1989 |
Location | Berry Springs, Northern Territory, Australia |
Annual visitors | 61,200 (2017)[1] |
Memberships | ZAA[3] |
Owner | Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory[2] |
Website | www |
The Territory Wildlife Park is a
conservation through research programs as well as through public education. The three main habitats represented are woodland, wetland
and monsoon vine forest.
The Territory Wildlife Park is a member of the Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA).
Fauna
The many species of animals are kept in the park in various exhibit precincts including: 'Aquarium'; 'Billabong'; 'Monsoon Forest Walk'; 'Nocturnal House'; 'Oolloo Sandbar'; 'Paperbark Walk'; 'Rocky Ridge'; 'Walk-through Aviary' and 'Woodland Walk'. The species include:
- Birds
- Australasian grebe
- Australian pelican
- Bar-shouldered dove
- Beach stone-curlew
- Black-breasted buzzard
- Blue-faced honeyeater
- Blue-winged kookaburra
- Bush stone-curlew
- Bush thick-knee
- Channel-billed cuckoo
- Chestnut-breasted mannikin
- Comb-crested jacana
- Common koel
- Crimson finch
- Dollarbird
- Emerald ground dove
- Emu
- Figbird
- Forest kingfisher
- Gouldian finch
- Green pygmy goose
- Hooded parrot
- Jabiru
- Long-tailed finch
- Partridge pigeon
- Pheasant coucal
- Pied imperial pigeon
- Radjah shelduck
- Rainbow pitta
- Red-collared lorikeet
- Rose-crowned fruit dove
- Sacred kingfisher
- Southern boobook
- Spangled drongo
- Tawny frogmouth
- Tiwi masked owl
- Varied Lorikeet
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- White-bellied cuckoo-shrike
- White-breasted woodswallow
- White-throated honeyeater
- Yellow oriole
- Fish
- Archerfish
- Barred grunter
- Banded rainbowfish
- Barcoo grunter
- Barramundi
- Beach-rock mangrove goby
- Bigfin mudskipper
- Black catfish
- Blackmast (Strawman)
- Blue devil
- Blueback blue-eye
- Blue-green chromis
- Chequered rainbowfish
- Coal grunter
- Diamond mullet
- Dwarf rainbowfish
- Estuary cod
- Exquisite rainbowfish
- Fly-specked hardyhead
- Freshwater whipray
- Giant glassfish
- Giant gudgeon
- Gulf saratoga
- Hyrtl's catfish
- Indo-Pacific tarpon
- Lorentz's grunter
- Mangrove jack
- Moorish idol
- Mouth almighty
- Pikey bream
- Poreless gudgeon
- Primitive archerfish
- Rendahl's catfish
- Reticulated glassfish
- Sailfin glass perchlet
- Shadow goby
- Sharpnose grunter
- Sooty grunter
- Spangled grunter
- Spotted blue-eye
- Spotted scat
- Starry pufferfish
- Threadfin rainbowfish
- Western clownfish
- Western gobbleguts
- Whitetail squirrelfish
- Wilson's mangrove goby
- Yellowfin surgeonfish
- Frogs
- Invertebrate
- Mammals
- Agile wallaby
- Antilopine kangaroo
- Bare-rumped sheathtail bat
- Black flying fox
- Black wallaroo
- Common planigale
- Dingo
- Ghost bat
- Golden bandicoot
- Grassland melomys
- Narbalek
- Northern brown bandicoot
- Northern brushtail possum
- Northern quoll
- Rakali
- Rock ringtail possum
- Short-beaked echidna
- Short-eared rock-wallaby
- Spectacled hare-wallaby
- Sugar glider
- Reptiles
- Black-headed python
- Brown tree snake
- Children's python
- Darwin carpet python
- Estuarine crocodile
- Freshwater crocodile
- Frilled lizard
- Giant cave gecko
- Golden tree snake
- Hosmer's spiny-tailed skink
- King brown snake
- Merten's water monitor
- Northern blue-tongued skink
- Northern death adder
- Northern red-faced turtle
- Northern snake-necked turtle
- Northern snapping turtle
- Northern spiny-tailed gecko
- Northern yellow-faced turtle
- Olive python
- Pig-nosed turtle
- Rough knob-tailed gecko
- Water python
- Western brown snake
See also
References
- ^ "Park visitor data". Department of Tourism Sport and Culture. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
Point of Sales.
- ^ "Parks and Reserves". Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory. 26 August 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Member Location Map". zooaquarium.org.au. ZAA. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
External links
- Media related to Territory Wildlife Park at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website