SPORTSMAN CREEK CONSERVATION AREA

Small family groups live in the grasses and thickets and along the watercourses of the Conservation Area. Image of a male bird courtesy of visiting Wildlife photographer Rowley Willis.

Attractive medium-sized hunting hawk with dark bars across a white belly and flanks. Uncommon across the North and North-east of Australia and rare in New South Wales.

Image courtesy of visiting Wildlife photographer Rowley Willis.

Flushed from dense foliage at the dam by Brianna May Whiteman  is the nocturnal and first time sighting here of a Nankeen Night Heron. They inhabit swamps, lakes, billabongs and tidal channels over much of Australia.

I.D. courtesy of Dr. Greg Clancy.

Seen foraging on the forest floor for insects and snails in the Conservation Area.  These colourful birds extend along the Eastern Seaboard in the mountain forests and moving into coastal lowlands in winter. Image taken by visiting wildlife photographer  Rowland Willis.

Known as the “tailor-bird” for its stitched leaf nests this attractive bird was photographed by visiting Californian Wildlife Photographer Rowland Willis and is a new species for the Conservation Area.

I.D. courtesy of Dr. Greg Clancy. 

A common, locally nomadic species which visits the Conservation Area in search of nectar and insects.

Large, widespread and common Heron seen drying wings on the Conservation Area.  

Welcome visitor to the Conservation Area today.