Enjoy Kangaroo Valley

The Wildlife of Kangaroo Valley

One of the beautiful things about a visit to Kangaroo Valley is the wildlife. Kangaroo Valley has a lot of wildlife corridors and national park as well as pastoral land and native forest. And yes there are kangaroos in Kangaroo Valley, in fact most of them are technically wallabies although in the drier western parts of the Valley you may see mobs of Eastern Grey Kangaroos grazing in the paddocks in the late afternoons and early morning.

Many of the other ‘roos’ are actually wallabies. The Swamp Wallaby with its dark fur and pretty face inhabits the wetter and rainforest forest areas. These are ‘browsers’ rather than ‘grazers’ and eat leaves and shoots from trees and shrubs so are not likely to be seen out in the open. Red Necked Wallabies are also found in the Valley and the Valley is home to a colony of the very rare and endangered Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby.

Kangaroo Valley is also home to the wombat, a funky, furry little animal closely related to the koala but terrestrial instead of tree dwelling. Wombats live in complex tunnel systems that they dig into the deeper soils of the escarpment forests and alluvial soils of the Valley floor. Wombats come out for breakfast just on dusk and are often seen grazing by the road sides at night - please drive slowly at dusk and dark to avoid killing these beautiful animals.

Other Australian animals that live here include the spiny echidna often seen burrowing its strong snout into the earth and under logs to root out ants and other insects. One of Australia’s rare egg-laying marsupials it will curl up into a tight spiny ball if disturbed.

Another of Australia’s most characteristic animals lives here in the Kangaroo River and other creeks. Also an egg-laying marsupial mammal the platypus is a shy and illusive resident of the clear pools. It lives in borrows made into the river banks. To see this creature you need to be up very early, be very quiet and still and be very patient. Good luck!

Bird Watching

Kangaroo Valley is a great place for bird watching. The many bush walks will give you great opportunities to spot birds. See the bush walking info on this site, follow the link to Morton National Park or check out the maps and bush walking guide in the house for details. A pair of binoculars is a great advantage in identifying different birds. Just staying still and quiet and observing the passers by is a lovely experience.

A fabulous range of birds visit and live in the garden at Little Pig Creek. You will be sure to see a great selection of these feathery visitors during your stay at the property.

We have identified these birds as visitors to the garden here since keeping records from 1995. If you spot any different ones please let us know! They are listed in the order in which they were identified.

  1. Satin Bower Bird
  2. Currawong
  3. Magpie
  4. Pied Butcher Bird
  5. Brown Pigeon
  6. Spotted Turtle Dove
  7. Crested Pigeon
  8. Rainbow Lorikeet
  9. King Parrot
  10. Crimson Rosella
  11. Kookaburra
  12. Yellow Tufted Honey Eater
  13. Gang Gang
  14. Galah
  15. Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo
  16. Eastern Rosella
  17. Boobook Owl (Mopoke)
  18. Welcome Swallow
  19. Eastern Whip Bird
  20. Willie Wagtail
  21. Superb Blue Wren
  22. Wattle Bird
  23. Noisy Friar Bird
  24. New Holland Honey Eater
  25. Eastern Spinebill
  26. Eastern Yellow Robin
  27. Red Browed Fire Tail Finch
  28. Dollar Bird
  29. Grey Breasted White Eye
  30. Grey Shrike Thrush
  31. Lewin’s Honey Eater
  32. Grey Fantail
  33. White Naped Honey eater
  34. Yellow Faced Honey Eater
  35. Fan Tailed Cuckoo
  36. Nankeen Kestrel
  37. Brown Thornbill
  38. Little Wattlebird
  39. White Goshawk
  40. Rose Robin
  41. Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
  42. Sacred King Fisher
  43. White Faced Heron
  44. White Browed Scrub Wren
  45. Channel Billed Cuckoo
  46. Tawny Frogmouth
  47. Golden Whistler