Zoo animals in my backyard

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zooman

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I would be interested to hear about. People who have animals that are runing free in there backyard. That zoos place in exhibits.

My list

Magpie
rats
mice
Blue tounged lizzards
skinks
butterflys
Cockatoos
Rosellas
Galahs
Brush tailed possums
ring tailed possums
Red back spiders.
Huntsman spiders

This list is actually longer than l thought. There are also more l am sure l am missing!

There is a zoo concept called NOZOO. Where the animal comes to a viewing point for the public to see. Maybe we are allot closer to this than first thought!!
 
Diamond Pythons
Red-bellied Black Snakes
Eastern Bluetongue Lizards
Eastern Water Skink
Lace Monitors
Eastern Bearded Dragons*
Noisy Miners
Magpie
Currawong
Kookaburra*
Sulfur-crested Cockatoo
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Galah (Rose-breasted Cockatoo)
Eastern Rosella
Crimson Rosella*
King Parrot
Rainbow Lorikeet
Pacific Baza
Goshawk
Whitebrowed Scrubwren
Redbrowed Firetail Finch*
Doublebar Finch*
New Holland Honeyeater*
Echidna*
Bandicoot*
Brushtail Possum
Ringtail Possum
Redback Spider
Golden Orbweaver
Garden Orbweaver
Sydney Funnelweb*
Bradley's Mouse Spider*
St Andrews Cross Spider

*Not seen for a while

:p

Hix
 
Coyote
Raccoon
Wild Rabbits
Squirrel
Western Fence Lizard
Southern Alligator Lizard
Roadrunner
California Quail
Mourning Dove
Western Scrub Jay
House Finch
Hummingbirds(several species)
Pocket Gopher
Hawks(several species)
Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
 
It's funny seeing a list from another country Blackduiker and being jealous that I've seen two of the animals on your list and then thinking how people might be jealous of what's on my list.

I see these animals frequentley:-
Noisy Miners
Superb Fairy Wrens
Tawny Frogmouths
Sulphur Crested Cockatoos
Galahs
Crested Pigeons
Rosellas
Lorikeets
Australian Magpies
Possums
Zebra Finches
Red Foxes
Black Swans
Australian Ibis
Two types of spoonbill that I can't name
Australian Pelicans
Blue Tongue Lizards
Some sort of little skink
Swamphens

And I see these animals seasonaly or not very often:-
Tiger Snakes
Kangaroos and Wallabys
Echidnas
Some sort of big monitor
Water Rats
 
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Indeed, although we do apparently have some wild big cats... ;
 
I've got Prickly Stick Insects (Acanthoxyla geisovii) in my garden in Paignton.
(These stick insects first arrived in Paignton as eggs on plants imported from New Zealand 100 years ago.)
 
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sad thing is I have pets which some zoos have!!!

giant cockroaches, giant african land snails, sabah spiny insects, thai stick insects and cardinal tetras!! whipee!
 
*=uncommon, **=only once or twice
Alligators**
Seagulls
Dolphins**
Manatees*
North American River Otters
Bald Eagles
Ospreys
Great Blue Herons
Snowy Egret
 
My uncomplete list (especially in regards to birds/insects; I'm mostly listing species which are also listed on ISIS :)

Mammalian

Raccoon
Bobcat (this was about four years back, and I live in suburbia!)
Skunk (don't recall seeing them, but I sure have smelled them!)
Opossum
Red Fox (not exactly in my backyard that I've seen but once again I have smelled them and spotted one across the street, trotting off when the motion detector light switched on)
Cottontail Rabbit
Grey Squirrel

Avian

Northern Cardinal
Red-tailed Hawk
Blue Jay
American Goldfinch
Yellow Warbler
American Robin
House Finch
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
European Starling
American Cros
Redpoll
Song Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Veery
Mourning Dove

Amphibian

American Toad
Leopard Frog
Pickerel Frog

Reptilian

Garter Snake (a number of ytears ago and when I was really young, there was a two headed garter snake!)

Insects

Bees
Ants
Butterflies
Moths
 
White-faced Heron, Yellow Billed Spoonbill, Royal Spoonbill, Black Faced Cuckoo-Shrike, Channel Billed Cuckoo, Australian King Parrot, Crimson Rosella, Eastern Rosella, Sulphur Creased Cockatoo, Galah, Yellow-Tailed Black-Cockatoo, Pacific Black Duck, Australian Wood Duck, Little Pied Cormorant, Little Black Cormorant, Pied Cormorant, Darter, Silver Gull, Chestnut Teal, Grey Teal, Domestic Duck, Mallard, Masked Lapwing, Welcome Swallow, Rainbow Lorrikeet, Australian Magpie, Australian Raven, Eastern Whipbird, Common Cucal, Australian Brush-turkey, Emu (Escaped from farm) and a few others I can't remember.
 
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