Birds & Wildlife
From the verandah of the elevated cabins, walkways or decking area you look over the picturesque billabong and its lillies.
If you’re patient you may spot our resident fresh water crocodiles or a barramundi. Many species of birds nest amongst the reeds at the billabong’s edge and are best spotted in the early morning or at dusk.
Bird watching is our most popular activity. People come from all over the world to see the native birds of the area.
One bird enthusiast reported sighting 73 species of birds in two days at Parry Creek Farm.
The flood plains around the area are home to many species of water birds. During the wet season the flood plains become the nesting grounds for magpie geese, whistling ducks, brolgas, cattle egrets and numerous other migratory species.
Other birds in the area include jabirus, purple breasted swamp hens, green pygmy geese, glossy ibis, crimson finches, red-backed fairy wrens, red-winged parrots, blue-winged kookaburras, azure kingfishers, restless flycatcher, boobook owls, barking owls, red-tailed black cockatoos and many species of honey eaters, finches, water birds and birds of prey.
Parry Creek Farm is the perfect paradise for the reptiles and amphibians of northern Australia. Various kinds of snakes call Parry’s home, with frequent sightings of green tree snakes, olive pythons, children’s pythons and water pythons. The large lizards of the area include the yellow spotted monitor, perenties and frill neck lizards.
Our billabong contains frogs, fresh water turtles, fresh water crocodiles, barramundi, tarpon, archer fish and many water birds.
In the reeds and undergrowth of the billabong you’ll find our smaller more timid lizards, these include the blue-tongue skink, numerous species of geckos and the famous Ta Ra lizard.
We also get small mammals including kangaroos, wallabies and dingoes.
Birds of Parry Creek Farm include:
View our birds & wildlife gallery
| Bar-breasted Honeyeater Brown Honeyeater Yellow tinted Honeyeater Large billed Gerygone Weebil Rufous Whistler Jacky Winter Richards Pipit Purple Breasted Swamp Hen Green Pygmy Goose Hard-Head Duck Radjad Shell Duck Magpie Geese Grey Teal Straw-necked Ibis Sacred Ibis Glossy Ibis Blue-winged Kookaburra White Gaped Honeyeater Rufous Night Heron Comb Crested Jacana Pallid Cuckoo Koel Brolga Black Kite Whistling Kite Rainbow Bee-eater Crimson Finch Double barred Finch Long Tail Finch Star Finch Zebra Finch Masked Finch Sacred Kingfisher Little Egret Intermediate Egret Greater Egret Square Tailed Kite Osprey Pacific Black Duck |
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Little Corella Willie Wagtail Cuckoo Shrike Brown QuailGreater Bowerbird Wedged Tail Eagle Black Cormorant White-winged Triller Twany Frogmouth Barking Owl Bush Thick Knee Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Azure Kingfisher Restless Flycatcher Darter Brush Cuckoo White Browed Robin Peaceful Dove Bar Shouldered Dove Pheasant Coucal Mudlark Lemon Billed Flycatcher Pied Cormorant Yellow Oriole Red backed Fairy Wren Olive Backed Oriole Mangrove Bittern Red Winged Parrot Mistletoe Bird Blacktail Tree Creeper Weero White Backed Magpie Black Faced Woodswallow Fairy Martin Pied Butcher Bird Striated Pardalote Dollarbird Barn Swallow Grey Crowned Babbler Gouldian Finches |
