On-show species list from my visit on the 29.10.18 Red-tailed Phascogale Western Quoll Golden Bandicoot Greater Bilby* Burrowing Bettong Rufous Hare-wallaby Red Kangaroo Dingo Plains Mouse Spinifex Hopping-mouse Greater Stick-nest Rat Ghost Bat Emu Little Buttonquail* Grey Teal Australian Grebe Australian Bustard White-headed Stilt Banded Lapwing Inland Dotterel Bush Stone-curlew Common Bronzewing Spinifex Pigeon Peaceful Dove Diamond Dove* Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Mulga Parrot* Princess Parrot Australian Ringneck Budgerigar Tawny Frogmouth Red-backed Kingfisher* Sacred Kingfisher Rainbow Bee-eater Red-capped Robin Hooded Robin Yellow-rumped Thornbill Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Inland Thornbill Pied Honeyeater White-fronted Honeyeater Golden-backed Honeyeater Grey-headed Honeyeater Orange Chat Crimson Chat Crested Bellbird Chiming Wedgebill Cinnamon Quail-thrush Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike White-winged Fairy-wren Splendid Fairy-wren Eyrean Grasswren Dusky Grasswren (unsigned) Southern Whiteface Redthroat Rufous Whistler Masked Woodswallow Black-faced Woodswallow Western Bowerbird White-winged Triller Australian Reed-warbler Zebra Finch Painted Finch Pygmy Mulga Monitor Rusty Desert Monitor Perentie* Spinifex Legless Lizard Slater's Skink Gidgee Skink Fire-tailed Skink* Desert Skink Panther Skink Brooks Ctenotus (unsigned) Central Knob-tailed Gecko Northern Spiny-tailed Gecko Bynoe's Gecko* Thorny Devil Inland Bearded Dragon Lined Earless Dragon Central Military Dragon Central Netted Dragon Cane Grass Dragon Stimson's Python Centralian Carpet Python Woma Python Desert Death Adder Mulga Snake Acacia Stick Insect Blistered Pyrgomorph Small Black Ants Piedish Beetle Desert Wolf Spider Barking Spider Desert Scorpion --------------------------------- * = (not seen)
Seen during the bird-show: Australian Magpie Tawny Frogmouth Black-breasted Buzzard Barn Owl White-faced Heron Australian Hobby Whistling Kite Darkened signs (so probably not there anymore): Helmeted Gecko Western Hooded Scalyfoot Sand-plain Gecko
Animals see-able during the nocturnal-tour (as told by cashier): Bilby Rufous Hare-wallaby Burrowing Bettong Brush-tailed Bettong Greater Stick-nest Rat Golden Bandicoot Short-beaked Echidna
So no longer any Stripe-faced Dunnarts (which doesn't surprise me) or Spectacled Hare Wallabies (they had three previously)?
Here’s a species list from my visit today. It should be noted that there were a number of invertebrate species exhibited that I didn’t take note of, and that there are probably a few species I missed in some of the aviaries due to time constraints. Mammals: Red-tailed Phascogale Numbat Fat-tailed Dunnart Golden Bandicoot Greater Bilby Burrowing Bettong Rufous Hare-wallaby* Red Kangaroo Short-beaked Echidna Dingo Plains Mouse Spinifex Hopping-mouse Greater Stick-nest Rat Ghost Bat Birds: Emu Little Buttonquail* Grey Teal* Australasian Grebe Australian Bustard Pied Stilt Banded Lapwing Inland Dotterel Spinifex Pigeon Peaceful Dove Diamond Dove Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Mulga Parrot* Princess Parrot Budgerigar Bourke’s Parrot Tawny Frogmouth Sacred Kingfisher Red-capped Robin Hooded Robin Yellow-rumped Thornbill Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Inland Thornbill Pied Honeyeater White-fronted Honeyeater Golden-backed Honeyeater Grey-headed Honeyeater Orange Chat Crimson Chat Crested Bellbird Chiming Wedgebill Cinnamon Quail-thrush Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike White-winged Fairy-wren Splendid Fairy-wren Eyrean Grasswren* Dusky Grasswren Rufous-crowned Emu-wren Southern Whiteface Rufous Whistler Masked Woodswallow Black-faced Woodswallow Western Bowerbird White-winged Triller* Australian Reed-warbler* Zebra Finch Painted Finch Birds Seen in the Bird Show: Black-breasted Buzzard Whistling Kite Black Kite Wedge-tailed Eagle Eastern Barn Owl Australian Boobook Bush-stone Curlew Australian Magpie Reptiles: Pygmy Mulga Monitor Perentie* Spinifex Legless Lizard Slater's Skink* Gidgee Skink Fire-tailed Skink Desert Skink Panther Skink Central Knob-tailed Gecko Northern Spiny-tailed Gecko Thorny Devil Inland Bearded Dragon Lined Earless Dragon Central Military Dragon* Central Netted Dragon Cane Grass Dragon Stimson's Python Centralian Carpet Python Woma Python Desert Death Adder Mulga Snake Fish: Barred Grunter* Purple-spotted Gudgeon Bony Bream Desert Rainbowfish Chequered Rainbowfish Agassiz’s Glassfish Tanadus Catfish *means signed but not seen For anybody who finds themselves near Alice Springs this collection is a must visit. Numbat, thorny devil, and rufous-crowned emu-wren were my personal highlights.
According to various posts on the forum by @Chlidonias, a number of individuals have been brought into the Desert Park, although the longest an individual has ever lived in captivity is only ten weeks (whether or not this longevity record was reached at the park or not I am not sure).
Here is the current species list in the night walk as of Friday night: Short-beaked Echidna Bilby Golden Bandicoot Rufous Hare-Wallaby Burrowing Bettong* Brush-tailed Bettong Greater Stick-nest Rat* Plains Mouse* Bush-stone Curlew *means I was told they were present but I did not see them
