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  1. Najade

    Najade Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Updated list as per my visit on the 03.11.19:

    Entrance Area
    Mulga Snake
    Carpet Python
    Darwin Stick-insect
    Frilled Lizard (not seen)

    Woodland Walk

    Agile Wallaby
    Antilopine Wallaby

    Nocturnal House
    Black-footed Tree-rat
    Northern Brown Bandicoot
    Tawny Frogmouth
    Northern Quoll
    Australian Owlet-nightjar
    Nabarlek
    Short-beaked Echidna
    Children's Python
    Giant Cave Gecko
    Northern Brushtail Possum
    Ghost Bat
    Hosmer's Skink
    Black-headed Python
    Magnificent Tree Frog
    Spectacled Hare-wallaby
    Sugar Glider
    Carpet Python
    Northern Knob-tailed Gecko
    Brown Tree-snake
    Black Flying-fox
    Bush Stone-curlew
    Northern Spiny-tailed Gecko
    Northern Death Adder
    Olive Python
    Golden Bandicoot
    Grassland Melomys
    Cane Toad
    Spinifex Hopping-mouse
    Water Python
    Rakali
     
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  2. Najade

    Najade Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Aviaries
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    Pied Imperial Pigeon
    Emerald Ground Dove
    Rose-crowned Fruit Dove
    2.
    Australasian Grebe
    Shining Flycatcher
    Double-barred Finch
    Forest Kingfisher
    Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
    White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike
    Green Pygmy Goose (unsigned)
    Long-tailed Finch
    3.
    Green Pygmy Goose
    Northern Yellow-faced Turtle
    Northern Red-faced Turtle
    Various Billabong Fish
    4.
    Beach Stone-curlew
    White-breasted Woodswallow
    Brown Honeyeater
    5.
    Crimson Finch
    White-throated Honeyeater
    Peaceful Dove
    Striated Pardalote
    Masked Finch
    Rose-crowned Fruit-dove (unsigned)

    Taipan

    Western Brown Snake

    Slaty-grey Snake
    6.
    Merten's Water Monitor
    Northern Snapping Turtle
    7.
    Gouldian Finch
    Partridge Pigeon
    Varied Lorikeet
    Hooded Parrot
    White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike (unsigned)
    Ta Ta Lizard
    8.
    empty
    9.
    Dollarbird
    Yellow Oriole
    Pacific Baza
    10.
    Channel-billed Cuckoo
    Blue-winged Kookaburra
    Dollarbird (unsigned)
     
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  3. Najade

    Najade Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Walk-through Aviary
    Figbird
    Emerald Ground Dove
    Bar-shouldered Dove
    Forest Kingfisher
    Spangled Drongo
    Pied Imperial Pigeon
    Bush Stone-curlew
    Blue-winged Kookaburra
    Channel-billed Cuckoo
    Yellow Oriole
    Black Bittern (not seen)
    Radjah Shelduck
    Pheasant Coucal
    Red-collared Lorikeet
    Common Koel (not seen)
    Great Bowerbird
    Plumed Whistling Duck (unsigned)
    Northern Snake-necked Turtle
    Northern Yellow-faced Turtle
     
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  4. Najade

    Najade Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Dingos
    Dingo

    Oolloo Sandbar
    Archerfish
    Barramundi
    Tarpon (unsigned)
    Freshwater Whipray
    Pig-nosed Turtle (not seen)

    Rocky Ridge
    Emu
    Antilopine or Common Wallaroo (not signed)

    Buffalo Trail
    Swamp Buffalo

    Flight Show
    Bush Stone-curlew
    Red-collared Lorikeet
    Barn Owl
    Emu
    Wedge-tailed Eagle
    Black-breasted Buzzard
    Brahminy Kite
    Black-necked Stork
     
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    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I highly doubt they would keep a pig nosed turtle in what is (presumably) a saltwater tank, considering this is a freshwater species.
     
  6. MRJ

    MRJ Well-Known Member 15+ year member Premium Member

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    All species mentioned can be found in fresh water rivers.
     
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    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    While I knew this, I assumed this exhibit would be brackish water, as all species listed except for the pig nosed turtle are commonly found in estuaries.

    After googling the exhibit I see that it is in fact a large pond, not a large tank as I imagined it. That would make sense why it’s freshwater as that would be a lot easier to maintain than a saltwater pond, as evaporation has a much more drastic effect on saltwater than freshwater.

    My fault for assuming that the exhibit contained brackish water.
     
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    Najade Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Aquarium
    Exquisite Rainbowfish
    Dwarf Rainbowfish
    Sail-fin Glassfish
    Fly-specked Hardyhead
    Rendahl's Catfish
    Chequered Rainbowfish
    Spangled Grunter
    Coal Grunter
    Lorentz's Grunter
    Reticulated Glassfish
    Black Catfish
    Hyrtl's Catfish
    Diamond Mullet
    Primitive Archerfish
    Common Archerfish
    Freshwater Crocodile
    Blackmast
    Northern Trout Gudgeon
    Giant Glassfish
    Threadfin Rainbowfish
    Spotted Blue-eye
    Yellow-faced Turtle
    Green Tree Frog
    Giant Gudgeon
    Northern Snake-necked Turtle
    Northern Yellow-faced Turtle
    Northern Snapping Turtle
    Barramundi
    Sooty Grunter
    Tarpon
    Freshwater Whipray
    Butler's Grunter
    Pig-nosed Turtle
    Saltwater Crocodile
    Diamond-scale Mullet
    Estuarine Stonefish
    Diamondfish
    Spotted Scat
    Long-spined Glassfish
    Wilson's Mangrove Goby
    Silverlined Mudskipper
    Flame-backed Fiddler Crab
    Upside-down Jellyfish
    Vanderbilt's Chromis
    Daisy Coral
    Harlequin Tuskfish
    Domino Damselfish
    Blue-spotted Ribbontail Ray
    Dog-faced Pufferfish
    Bubble-tip Anemone
    Birdnose Wrasse
    Maroon Clownfish
    Moorish Idol
    Blue-green Chromis
    Red Anemonefish
    Tail-spot Wrasse
    Slipper Coral
    Hammer Coral
    Western Clownfish
    Royal Dottyback
    Blue Devil
    Yellowfin Surgeonfish
    Common Lionfish
    Humbug Damselfish
    Northern Wobbegong

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    based on signage, did not have time to check if every species was actually there
     
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