Site Report: Stanley Plantation, Australia

Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)

Common Brown (Heteronympha merope)

Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)

Mostly plantation forest.

Map of Site Report: Stanley Plantation, Australia

2025-12-04: We arrived late in the day to Beechworth where we checked in to a bit of a rugged room. Everything had also closed by 5PM, so we decided to go for a walk in a nearby plantation forest.

Kingdom: Animals (17 records, 0 images)

Phylum: Arthropods (1 record, 0 images)

Class: Insects (1 record, 0 images)

Order: Butterflies and Moths (1 record)
- Family: Brush-footed Butterflies
- Common Brown (Heteronympha merope)

Phylum: Chordates (16 records, 0 images)

Class: Birds (15 records, 0 images)

Order: Anseriformes (2 records)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Maned Duck (Chenonetta jubata)
- Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa)

Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies (2 records)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)
- Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)

Order: Doves and Pigeons (1 record)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Wonga Pigeon (Leucosarcia melanoleuca)

Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (1 record)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Order: Parrots (1 record)
- Family: New World Parrots
- Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans)

Order: Pelicans (1 record)
- Family: Cormorants
- Little Black Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris)

Order: Perching Birds (7 records)
- Family: Bowerbirds
- Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)
- Family: Fairywrens and Allies
- Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus)
- Family: Fantails
- Gray Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa)
- Family: Thornbills and Allies
- Brown Thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla)
- White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis)
- Family: Whistlers and Allies
- Gray Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica)
- Family: White-winged Chough and Apostlebird
- White-winged Chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos)

Class: Mammals (1 record, 0 images)

Order: Monotremata (1 record)
- Family: Echidna
- Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)