The Present

Existing wetlands provide breeding habitat for:

crakes
rails
waterfowl


Vegetation and wetland restoration has created suitable habitat for animals such as:

Existing and recorded

Platypus Short-beaked Echidna Agile Antechinus Common Ringtail Possum Common Brushtail Possum Sugar Glider Eastern Grey Kangaroo Water Rat Swamp Rat

Grey-headed Flying-fox Yellow-bellied Sheathtail Bat Gould's Wattled Bat Wattled Bat Common Bentwing Bat Lesser Long-eared Bat Eastern Broad-nosed Bat Large Forest Bat Little Forest Bat

Proposed for short term introduction (including augmentations) Long-nosed Pottoroo Agile Antechinus Fat-tailed Dunnart White-footed Dunnart Southern Brown Bandicoot Eastern Barred Bandicoot Common Wombat Sugar Glider Tasmanian Bettong Tasmanian Pademelon Black Wallaby Red-necked Wallaby Water Rat Bush Rat Swamp Rat Birds: Brolga, Magpie Goose

Proposed medium term introductions Platypus Brush-tailed Phascogale Eastern Pygmy Possum Eastern Quoll Feathertail Glider Bush Stone Curlew

The University and in particular its Wildlife Reserves are an integral part of the Melbourneís north-east habitat link bringing native birds into suburban gardens.