Alice Springs Desert Park Alice Springs Desert Park species list

[Najade]

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
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* = (not seen)

 

[Najade]

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

 

[Najade]

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

 

[Chlidonias]

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

So no longer any Stripe-faced Dunnarts (which doesn't surprise me) or Spectacled Hare Wallabies (they had three previously)?

 

[Najade]

There were no signs for them...

 

[animal_expert01]

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.

 

[Zorro]

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.

Is there any record of them having desert moles

 

[animal_expert01]

Is there any record of them having desert moles

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).

 

[animal_expert01]

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

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