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Some highlights Sulphur-crested Cockatoo web-page
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Skinks web-page
Shingleback
Uluru & Kata Tjuta web-page
Postcard - Uluru & Kata Tjuta
Broome  postcard web-page
Postcard - Broome

Australia has 20,000* plant species and 2,300* animal and bird species.

* according to the Australian Biological Resources Study    

Most of these are only found in Australia.

This website provides over 700 images of Australian flora and fauna as well as uniquely Australian scenes (postcards).

You are welcome to use these images for any non-commercial use.

We only ask that you acknowledge the website.

A detailed index of profiles and images begins further down the page - here's a quick link to it.

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Waratah logo Blue Mountains NP Wildflowers Waratah logo Lane Cove NP Wildflowers

The wildflowers of the Lane Cove and Blue Mountains National Parks provide the foundation of this website.

Sunshine Wattle image p6250216 124KB

These Parks are our "extended garden".

Imagine a 250,000 ha garden with over 1,000 species of flowering plants and all sorts of wildlife.


State Floral Emblems Common Heath image
Victoria's Common Heath
Kangaroo Paw web-page
Western Australia's
Kangaroo Paw
Sturt's Desert Pea web-page
South Australia's
Sturt's Desert Pea
Waratah web-page
New South Wales's Waratah

We are indebted to Les Robinson's Field Guide To the Native Plants of Sydney (Kangaroo Press, 2003) and the Royal Botanic Gardens' PlantNET website. These two reference sources have greatly assisted us in identifying wildflowers.

Index of images

Selecting an underlined name below will take you to its web page.

for the birds the Rainbow Lorikeet web page

Australian Pelican image 156KB
Profile & images

Australian King-Parrot
Channel-billed Cuckoo (juvenile)
Crimson Rosella & Yellow Rosella
Laughing Kookaburra
Rainbow Lorikeet
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Tawny Frogmouth

Birds webpage - includes images of -

Apostlebird
Australian Magpie
Australian Pelican
Australian Raven
Australian Ringneck
Australian Wood Duck
Black Swan
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Common Bronzewing
Crested Pigeon
Eastern Spinebill
Eurasian Coot
Galah
Gang-gang Cockatoo

Grey Butcherbird
Grey Currawong
Grey Fantail
Grey Shrike-thrush
Little Corella
Magpie-lark
Mallee Ringneck
New Holland Honeyeater
Noisy Miner
Pacific Bazza
Pacific Black Duck
Pacific Gull
Peaceful Dove
Pied Butcherbird
Pied Currawong
Powerful Owl

Red Wattlebird
Red-browed Finch
Red-capped Parrot
Satin Bowerbird
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Silver Gull
Silvereye
Singing Honeyeater
Spotted Pardalote
Twenty-eight Parrot
Western Rosella
White-browed Scrubwren
White-faced Heron
White-plumed Honeyeater
White-throated Treecreeper

here be dragons Eastern Water Dragon
Eastern Water Dragon

Mountain Dragon

Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko
Skinks webpage - includes images of -
  • Black Rock Skink
  • Blotched Blue-tongued Lizard
  • Common Blue-tongued Lizard
  • Copper-tailed Skink

  • Eastern Water Skink
  • King's Skink
  • Red-throated Skink
  • Shingleback or Stumpy-tail
  • Southern Rainbow Skink
  • White's Skink
creepy crawlies Jumping Spider
Golden Orb-weaving Spider

St. Andrew's Cross Spider
floral tributes

the Mountain Devil

Scarlet Banksia
Banksias (Sydney region)
Coast Banksia
Fern-Leaved Banksia
Hairpin Banksia
Heath Banksia
Old Man Banksia
Silver Banksia

Western Australian Banksias
● Bull Banksia
● Cut-leaf Banksia
● Prostrate Banksia
● Scarlet Banksia

Blue Dampiera

Drumsticks & Conesticks
● Broad-leaf Drumsticks
● Narrow-leaf Drumsticks
● Conesticks
● Stalked Conesticks
Flannel Flowers
● Lesser Flannel Flower
● Pink Flannel Flower
● Sydney Flannel Flower

Kangaroo Paws
● Black Kangaroo Paw
● Catspaw or Cat's Paw
● Red and Green Kangaroo Paw

the Mountain Devil

Mungo NP Wildflowers
● Poached Eggs Daisy
● Woolly Darling Pea

Native Irises
● Dwarf Purple Flag
● Silky Purple Flag
● Yellow Flags
Snow Gums at Wallace's Hut

Spider Flowers - Grevilleas
● Green Spider Flower
● Grey Spider Flower
● Pink Spider Flower
● Red Spider Flower
● White Spider Flower

Sturt's Desert Pea

Sweet Pittosporum

the Waratah

Blue Mountains National Park Wildflowers web pages
The Three Sisters

The Blue Mountains National Park covers 250,000 hectares and is a World Heritage Area.

NSW Waratah

The Blue Mountains National Park Wildflowers webpages contain images of over 100 species.

The species have been placed into 5 family groups - each group having its own web page.

Each web page also has a landscape or some wildlife found in the Blue Mountains.

Index of all the groups and species
Acacias & Myrtles
Banksias, Grevilleas, Drumsticks & Conesticks
Pea Flowers, Orchids, Lillies & Irises
Boronias, Guinea Flowers & Heath
Smaller Families

Lane Cove National Park Wildflowers web pages
Whale Rock

The Lane Cove National Park covers 600 hectares and is in the heart of Sydney.

Sydney Boronia

The Lane Cove National Park Wildflowers webpages contain images of over 190 species.

The species have been placed into 5 family groups - each group having its own web page.

Each web page also has a landscape or some wildlife found in the Park.

Index of all the groups and species
Acacias & Myrtles
Banksias, Grevilleas, Drumsticks & Conesticks
Pea Flowers, Orchids, Lillies & Irises
Boronias, Guinea Flowers & Heath
Smaller Families

Orchids
Spotted Sun Orchid Orchids of the Sydney Region

This webpage contains images of nearly twenty orchids that are found in the Greater Sydney area.

It also includes an overview of the largest flower family in the world.
Cowslip Orchid Orchids of Western Australia

This webpage contains images of over twenty Western Australian Orchids - mainly from the Stirling Range National Park.

Of the 700 or so orchid species in Australia, half can be found in Western Australia.

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Postcards from Australia
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Broome Sunset Broome, WA Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse, WA Lunette at Mungo The Lunette at Lake Mungo, NSW Merino Rams Merino Rams
at Woodstock, NSW
Paddlesteamer Paddlesteamer
at Echuca, Vic.
Peace Bell World Peace Bell
at Cowra, NSW
The Lily The Lily Windmill & Stirling Range, WA Uluru Uluru & Kata Tjuta
(Ayers Rock & The Olgas, NT)
Horizontal Falls Horizontal Falls, WA Madfish Bay Kangaroo Kangaroo & Joey
at Madfish Bay, WA
The Victorian High Country The Victorian High Country
Wind Farms Wind Farm,
Albany, WA and
Blayney, NSW
Beechworth & Bright Beechworth & Bright, Vic Wave Rock Wave Rock,
Hyden, WA
The Japanese Gardens, Cowra, NSW The Japanese Gardens
at Cowra, NSW
Hay, NSW Hay, NSW

Abbreviations of Australian States -> NSW - New South Wales; NT - Northern Territory; Vic. - Victoria; WA - Western Australia.

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