Today, the park is home to a variety of local wildlife, including Pacific Black Ducks and herons.
Pacific Black Duck, usually called the Grey Duck in New Zealand, a duck found in Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and islands in the southwestern Pacific
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These are in may be derived from a common ancestor of the Pacific Black Duck, the Laysan Duck, and the Mallard, and an unknown amount of other lineages.
Other waterbirds with recorded counts of over 1000 at some time include the Australian Shelduck, Pacific Black Duck, Australasian Shoveler, Grey and Chestnut Teal, Purple Swamphen, Eurasian Coot, Red-necked Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Silver Gull and Whiskered Tern.