Discovering wildlife

• Tips for watching wildlife
• Birdwatching
• Wildlife parks and encounters
• Watching marine mammals

Read about the impacts of feeding wildlife with a number of case studies highlighting the impact.

• Turtles
• Whales (Humpback)
• Whale watching

• About bandicoots
• Long-nosed bandicoot

• Australian magpies
• Birdwatching
• Bush stone-curlew
• Channel-billed cuckoo

• About frogs
• Building a frog pond
• Common green tree frog
• Dainty green treefrog

• Barking owl
• Southern boobook
• Tawny frogmouth

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic monotreme. Information on appearance, distribution, habitat, diet, breeding, threats to survival, protected status and how the public can help.

• About possums
• Lemuroid ringtail possum
• Striped possum
• Sugar glider possum

Well adapted to their watery world, water rats have a streamlined body, webbed hind paws and a flat furry tail for a rudder. Glossy fur protects them from the cold. They hunt fiercely, favouring tree-roots as regular feeding spots on the bank. Look for broken shells and open mussels.

Learn more about Queensland’s native wildlife including how to live safely alongside them. Our educational activity sheets are a great way to help kids learn more about protected and threatened species.