Site Report: Yungaburra

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

A small town surrounded by farms.

Visits

2012-11-15: We stopped in this town to see if we could find a platypus at the platypus viewing blind. A couple of tour buses showed up, and of course the tour bus crowd could not resist climbing over the fence...

Species Seen

Kingdom: Animals (6 records)

Phylum: Chordates (6 records)

Class: Birds (5 records)

Order: Anseriformes (1 record)
- Family: Swans, Geese, and Ducks
- Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa)

Order: Cranes, Rails, and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
- Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)

Order: Pelicans (1 record)
- Family: Falcons and Caracaras
- Nankeen Kestrel (Falco cenchroides)

Order: Perching Birds (1 record)
- Family: Starlings and Mynas
- Metallic Starling (Aplonis metallica)

Order: Shorebirds and Allies (1 record)
- Family: Plovers
- Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles)

Class: Mammals (1 record)

Order: Monotremata (1 record)
- Family: Ornithorhynchidae
- Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Lifelists

Trips

Eastern Australia