LIST OF SOME OF THE NATIVE FAUNA and FISH SPECIES FOR THE BARWON ESTUARY
INSECTS
Green Christmas Beetle
Green Blotched Moth
Caper White Butterfly
Acacia Weevil
Tau Emerald Dragonfly
Australia Painted Lady (butterfly)
Botany Bay Weevil
Burrowing Bee
Broken Leaf Moth
Bird Dropping Spider
Fiddler Beetle
Aurora Bluetail Damselfly
Golden Orb Weaver Spider
Grass Dart Butterfly
Grass Mantis
Ichneumon Wasp
Jewel Beetle
Lady Bug
Leaf Curling Spider
Longicorn Beetle
Grapevine Hawk Moth
Meadow Argus Butterfly
Orchid Dupe Wasp
Pie Dish Beetle
Praying Mantis
Saltbush Blue Butterfly
Trapdoor Spider
Plague Soldier Beetle
Red-back Spider
Spiny Dewel Spider
Wolf Spider
Yellow Admiral Butterfly
Wingless Flower Wasp
Common Shining Cockroach
REPTILES
Blue-Tongued Lizard
Jacky Lizard
Long-necked Turtle
Eastern three-lined Skink
Copperhead Snake
Garden Skink
Marbled Gecko
MAMMALS
Echidna
Ring-tailed Possum
Black Wallaby
Rakali – native water rat
Australian Fur Seal
Brush-tailed Possum
Yellow-bellied Sheath-tailed Bat
Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Bottle-nosed Dolphin
BIRDS
Nankeen Kestrel
White Faced Heron
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Royal Spoonbill
Fire-tailed Finch
Butcherbird
Little Bittern
Red-necked Stint
Bar-tailed Godwit
Eastern Curlew
Black Swan
White-bellied Sea Eagle
Curlew Sandpiper
Pacific Gull
Crested Tern
Little Pied Cormorant
Red-capped Plover
Common Greenshank
Eastern Curlew
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Nankeen Night Heron
White-headed Stilt
Australian Pelican
Orange-bellied Parrot
Australian Hobby Falcon
Australian Magpie
Black-shouldered Kite
Eastern Rosella
Barn Owl
Great Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Grey Butcherbird
Little Raven
Mudlark
New Holland Honeyeater
Galah
Letter Winged Kite
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red Wattlebird
Silver Gull
Singing Honeyeater
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Southern Boobook Owl
Superb Fairy Wren
White-browed Scrubwren
Silvereye
Tawny Frogmouth
Welcome Swallow
Willy Wagtail
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Short-tailed Shearwater
Little Penguin
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Pied Oystercatchers
Buff-banded Rails
Brown Goshawk
Australasian Gannet
Sacred Kingfisher
Chestnut Teal
Masked Lapwing
Grey Fantail
Fish
Mulloway
Short-finned Eel
Smooth Toadfish
Australian Grayling
Gummy Shark
Tommy Rough
Australian Salmon
Black Bream
Flathead
Yellow Eye Mullet
Elephant fish
Pipe Fish
Sand Mullet
Silver Trevally
King George Whiting
Estuary Perch
Luderick
Flounder
MOLLUSCS
Moon Snail
Sea Hare
CRUSTACEANS
Soldier Crab
Decorator Crab
Bass Yabby
FROGS
Brown Tree Frog
Pobblebonk
Spotted Marsh Frog
Unusual Visitors
Sawfish
Juvenile Hammerhead Shark
7 Gill broad-nosed Shark
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