If you enjoy wildlife, a drive to Kroombit Tops then on to the Boyne Valley provides a wonderful assortment of animal species to view. With at least 62 species of birds, 19 species of mammals, 10 species of amphibians and 9 species of reptiles, the wildlife enthusiast or the amateur photographer can certainly achieve a memorable day trip or an extended holiday visit.
Colours abound in the Rainbow Lorikeets, Pale-Headed Rosellas and Galahs that routinely call the Boyne Valley home. If you’re into starker shades, the blacks and whites of the Australian Magpies, Pied Currawongs or White-Winged Choughs will add to your enjoyment. More into the audio side of things? Then have a listen to the excitement of the Laughing Kookaburras, the melodic fluting of the Pied Butcher Birds, the squawk of the Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos or the chattering monologues of the Friarbirds. And for majesty and grace, nothing compares to seeing the Wedge-Tail Eagles in flight or the Black Swans gliding in the lagoon.
If you’re more interested in fur than feathers, there’s a good chance you’ll spy a grazing Whiptail Wallaby watching you drive by or an Eastern Grey Kangaroo bounding across a paddock. Flying Foxes and Bats complete the mammal picture as they nightly forage for food.
All in all the Boyne Valley offers a memorable experience of wildlife for anyone interested in seeing it close at hand. The following tables say it all.
| BIRDS | BIRDS | |||
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Scientific Name | Common Name | |
| Alectura lathami | Australian Brush Turkey | Haliastur sphenurus | Whistling Kite | |
| Anas superciliosa | Pacific Black Duck | Hieraaetus morphnoides | Little Eagle | |
| Aquila audax | Wedge-Tailed Eagle | Lichmera indistincta | Brown Honeyeater | |
| Ardea alba | Great Egret | Malurus melanocephalus | Red-Backed Fairy-Wren | |
| Ardea ibis | Cattle Egret | Manorina melanocephala | Noisy Miner | |
| Artamus leucorynchus | White-Breasted Woodswallow | Megalurus gramineus | Little Grassbird | |
| Ardeotis australs | Australian Bustard | Megalurus timoriensis | Tawny Grassbird | |
| Cacatua galerita | Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo | Meliphaga lewinii | Lewins Honeyeater | |
| Cacatua roseicapilla | Galah | Merops ornatus | Rainbow Bee-Eater | |
| Calyptorynchus magnificus | Red-Tailed Cockatoo | Ninox novaeseelandiea | Southern Boobook | |
| Caprimulgus sp. | Nightjar | Pachycephala rufiventris | Rufous Whistler | |
| Cenropus phasianinus | Pheasant Coucal | Pardolatus striatus | Striated Pardolat | |
| Chenonetta jubata | Australian Wood Duck | Pelecanus conspicillatus | Australian Pelican | |
| Coracina novaehollandiae | Black-Faced Cuckoo Shrike | Phalacrocorax carbo | Great Cormorant | |
| Corcorax melanorhamphos | White-Winged Chough | Phalacrocorax melanoleucos | Little Pied Cormorant | |
| Corvus orru | Torresian Crow | Philemon citreogularis | Little Friarbird | |
| Cracticus nigrogularis | Pied Butcherbird | Philemon corniculatus | Noisy Friarbird | |
| Cygnus atratus | Black Swan | Platycercus adscitus | Pale-Headed Rosella | |
| Dacelo novaeguineae | Laughing Kookaburra | Podargus strigoides | Tawny Frogmouth | |
| Daphoenositta chrysoptera | Varied Sitella | Porphyrio porphyrio | Swamphen | |
| Egretta novaehollandiae | White-Faced Heron | Rhipidura fuliginosa | Grey Fantail | |
| Entomyzon cyanotis | Blue-Faced Honeyeater | Rhipidura leucophyris | Willie Wagtail | |
| Falco berigora | Brown Falcon | Smicronis brevirostris | Weebill | |
| Falco longipennis | Australian Hobby | Specotheres viridis | Figbird | |
| Geopelia humeralis | Bar-Shouldered Dove | Strepera graculina | Pied Currawong | |
| Geopelia striata | Peaceful Dove | Threskiornis spinicollis | Straw-necked Ibis | |
| Glossopsita pusilla | Little Lorikeet | Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus | Scaly-Breasted Lorikeet | |
| Grallina cyanoleuca | Magpie Lark | Trichoglossus haematodus | Rainbow Lorikeet | |
| Grus rubicundus | Brolga | Tyto alba | Barn Owl | |
| Gymnorhina tibicen | Australian Magpie | Vanellus miles | Masked Lapwing |
| MAMMALS | |||||
| Scientific Name | Common Name | ||||
| Aepyprymnus rufescens | Rufous Bettong | ||||
| Canis lupus dingo | Dingo | ||||
| Chalinolobus gouldii | Gould’s Wattled Bat | ||||
| Chalinolobus nigrogriseus | Hoary Wattled Bat | ||||
| Felis catus | House Cat | ||||
| Isoodon macrourus | Northern Brown Bandicoot | ||||
| Macropus dorsalis | Black-Striped Wallaby | ||||
| Macropus giganteus | Eastern Grey Kangaroo | ||||
| Macropus rufogriseus | Red-Necked Wallaby | ||||
| Macropus parryi | Whiptail Wallaby | ||||
| Myotis adversus | Large-Footed Myotis | ||||
| Orychtolagus cuniculus | Rabbit | ||||
| Tadarida australis | White-Striped Freetail Bat | ||||
| Petaurus australis | Yellow-Bellied Glider | ||||
| Pteropus poliocephalus | Grey-Headed Flying-ox | ||||
| Tachyglossus aculeatus | Short-Beaked Echidna | ||||
| Thylogale sp. | Pademelon | ||||
| Trichosurus vulpecula | Common Brushtail Possum | ||||
| Vulpes vulpes | Fox |
| AMPHIBIANS | REPTILES | ||
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Scientific Name | Common Name |
| Bufo marinus | Cane Toad | Carlia pectoralis | Rainbow Skink |
| Limnodynastes peronii | Brown Striped Frog | Cryptoblepharus virgatus | Wall Skink |
| Limnodynastes tasmaniensis | Spotted Grass Frog | Ctenotus taeniolatus | Coppertail Skink |
| Limnodynastes terraeregine | Banjo Frog | Dendrelaphis punculata | Common Tree Snake |
| Litoria caerulea | Green Tree Frog | Morelia spilota | Carpet Python |
| Litoria fallax | Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog | Pgona barbata | Bearded Dragon |
| Litoria inermis | Floodplain Frog | Pseudonaja textilis | Eastern Brown Snake |
| Litoria latopalmata | Broad-Palmed Frog | Physignathus lesueurii | Eastern Water Dragon |
| Litoria lesueuri | Stony Creek Frog | Varanus varius | Goanna |
| Littoria rubella | Desert Tree Frog |
