These birds were happy to pose for a photo on the sea wall that protects the Royal Botanic Gardens from Sydney Harbour, otherwise known as Port Jackson. The birds are Masked Lapwings or Spur-winged Plovers, which are native to Australia.
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Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Hurstville Grove, Moore Reserve Wetland
The Moore Reserve Wetland is located in the southern suburb of Hurstville Grove. Moore Reserve was created in the 1960s by infilling with mud dredged from Oatley Bay. An artificial wetland was constructed in 2001 using natural processes to treat 95% of all stormwater run off from the 125-hectare catchment before it enters Oatley Bay.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Botanic Gardens, flying foxes
The grey-headed and black flying-foxes, otherwise known as fruit bats, are common in the Royal Botanic Gardens. Flying foxes are nocturnal mammals that can be seen roosting in the trees in the middle of the day. The grey-headed flying foxes have the largest body size of all bats with a maximum wingspan of one metre. They like to eat the nectar and pollen of eucalypts and other native trees, such as paperbarks and banksias. They also like eating rainforest fruits, such as figs and lilly pilly berries. The colony is damaging rare trees here and there are now plans to relocate them at great cost.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Botanic Gardens, pond
This pond is located beside the Oriental Garden, close to the Palm Grove Centre, in the Royal Botanic Gardens. There were quite a few flying foxes (or fruit bats) sleeping in the trees above.
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