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unusual facts about Spectacled hare-wallaby


Spectacled hare-wallaby

Reintroduction to former habitats has been proposed, following the related Western Shield projects.


Allied rock-wallaby

The allied rock-wallaby is found in the hinterland of Townsville, and also on Magnetic and Palm Islands.

Balmoral Burn

Created by Wallaby great Phil Kearns, the first Burn was ran in 2000, and now an annual event run in May/June each year.

Brush-tailed rock-wallaby

As part of the acclimatisation movement of the late 1800s, governor Grey introduced this and four other species of wallabies (including the rare parma wallaby) to islands in Hauraki Gulf, near Auckland, New Zealand, where they became well-established.

Bylong Valley

Traveling in this scenic valley reveals its cultural heritage as well as springing up surprises like sightings of wombats, wallabies and kangaroos—sometimes in front of your car!

Chasing Kangaroos

Seventy species make up the kangaroo family, which includes wallabies and rat kangaroos.

Cleland Conservation Park

The park also has a variety of rare and endangered species such as the Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby, Bush Stone-curlew and Brush-tailed Bettong.

Cougar Mountain Zoo

The zoo currently specializes in eight "worlds" of animals: cougars, lemurs, cranes, reindeer, macaws, wallabies, ratites, camelids.

Edge Hill State School

"The school .. gave the appearance of being out in the bushland as it was bordered by scrub and swamp on the northern and eastern boundaries. To the south was the creek and to the west, across Pease Street, was a tangle of ti-trees, stunted growth and thick blady grass.. At night the curlews called incessantly and in the early morning scrub wallabies came in to graze on the sports field."

Freedom on the Wallaby

"Freedom on the Wallaby", Henry Lawson's well known poem, was written as a comment on the 1891 Australian shearers' strike and published by William Lane in the Worker in Brisbane, 16 May 1891.

Gareth Delve

In February 2011 Delve was appointed Rebels' vice captain, deputy to former Wallaby captain Stirling Mortlock.

Hall Hill Farm

The animals available for the public to see include llamas, wallabies and Highland cattle.

History of association football in Brisbane, Queensland

The Challenge Cup was won by Corinthians (named after the famous English amateur football team) and the Charity Cup by Brisbane City I. 1915 also saw reporting of junior competitions: winners' trophies were presented to the "first grade junior, Rag Tag Club, second grade junior, Brisbane City II; third grade junior, Wallaby I".

Inchconnachan

Wallabies, of the species Macropus rufogriseus (Red-necked Wallaby), were introduced by Lady Colquhoun in the 1940s, and still roam wild.

Lewis Roberts-Thomson

Roberts-Thomson is a rarity in AFL as he grew up playing rugby union as a contemporary of Wallaby Phil Waugh at Sydney Church of England Grammar School.

Macquarie Pass National Park

As well as a diverse array of birdlife the park has swamp wallabies and wombats.

North Arm Cove, New South Wales

To the north of the Pacific Highway, land use is mainly rural and throughout the suburb kangaroos, wallabies and koalas are commonly found.

Patterson River

Non-indigenous floral species include the sheep's burr, angled onion, lesser joyweed, broom spurge, common swamp wallaby grass, pointed centrolepis, common spikerush and small spikerush.

Purple-necked rock-wallaby

The purple-necked rock-wallaby (Petrogale purpureicollis) was first classified in 1924 by Albert Sherbourne Le Souef, then director of the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, who noted a strange purple colouration around the neck as well as skull differences separating it from other rock-wallaby species.

Quite an Adventure

:It appears that a young married lady, Mrs. Wallaby, living at Croydon, and always in great fear of burglars, is left alone meditating upon a little adventure she has had at Victoria Station.

Skiing in New South Wales

The Australian High Country is populated by unique flora and fauna including wombats, wallabies, echidnas, and the Snow Gum.

Springwood State High School

In addition to this, the school is home to many native animal species including Koalas, Wallabies and many species of birds.

Tongan Australian

Viliami Ofahengaue, affectionately known as Willie O, former Wallaby number eight and Flanker with 41 caps between 1990 and 1998, including the 1991 and 1995 World Cups.

Upper Hulme

The hamlet is popular with wildlife enthusiasts due to Wallaby having been sighted on the Roaches, and the successful annual breeding of Peregrine Falcons.

Wollogorang Important Bird Area

The rugged sandstone ranges of Wollogorang support the only surviving population of critically endangered Carpentarian rock rats as well as Rock-haunting ringtail possums, Short-eared Rock-wallabies, Sandstone dibblers and Mertens' water monitors.

Wyanbene Caves

A sheep and cattle farming area, there is still much wildlife including wombats, greater gliders, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Echidna, Eastern Grey Kangaroo, wallabies, Red-bellied Black Snakes, Tiger Snake, Cunningham's Skink and native fish in the Wyanbene Creek and nearby Shoalhaven and Duea rivers.

Yellow-footed rock-wallaby

In New South Wales the yellow-footed rock-wallaby was first recorded in 1964 in the Coturaundee Ranges, now part of Mutawintji National Park.


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