Gorge Wildlife Park
34°50′30.97″S 138°48′51.59″E / 34.8419361°S 138.8143306°E / -34.8419361; 138.8143306
Gorge Wildlife Park is a privately-owned sanctuary in the Australian state of South Australia. It is at Cudlee Creek in the Adelaide Hills and continues to be operated by the same family that established it in 1965.[1] It is 30 km northeast of Adelaide. Situated on 14 acres of land, under shaded trees, paths meander among the largest privately owned collection of Australian animals. The park provides contact with a range of Australian native animals as well as exhibits of Australian and exotic animals and birds.[3] A feature is the opportunity for visitors to hold a koala.[4][5]
Gorge Wildlife Park is involved in protection and preservation of some endangered species such as the brush-tailed rock-wallaby (petrogale penicillata).[6]
List of species
Birds
- Australian boobook owl
- Australian pelican
- Australian white ibis
- Black swan
- Blue peafowl
- Blue-and-gold macaw
- Blue-winged kookaburra
- Brolga
- Budgerigar
- Cattle egret
- Common ostrich
- Dusky moorhen
- Emu
- Galah
- Gang-gang cockatoo
- Golden-shouldered parrot
- Green dove
- Green catbird
- Green-winged macaw
- Jabiru
- Lady Amherst's pheasant
- Laughing kookaburra
- Little penguin
- Luzon bleeding-heart
- Magpie goose
- Nankeen kestrel
- Nicobar pigeon
- Pacific black duck
- Princess parrot
- Radjah shelduck
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Red-tailed black cockatoo
- Scarlet-chested parrot
- Southern cassowary
- Star finch
- Sun conure
- Superb fairywren
- Turquoise parrot
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- Whistling kite
- White-bellied sea eagle
- White-headed pigeon
- White-tailed black cockatoo
- Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
- (many others, Gorge has over 150 bird species)
Mammals
- Arabian camel
- Bare-nosed wombat
- Black-handed spider monkey
- Bolivian squirrel monkey
- Brazilian agouti
- Brush-tailed rock wallaby
- Capybara
- Cotton-top tamarin
- Dingo
- Domestic goat
- Emperor tamarin
- European fallow deer
- Ghost bat
- Golden lion tamarin
- Greater bilby
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Japanese macaque
- Kangaroo Island kangaroo
- Koala
- Lar gibbon
- Meerkat
- Oriental small-clawed otter
- Parma wallaby
- Patagonian mara
- Quokka
- Red kangaroo (including albino)
- Red-necked wallaby
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Serval
- Short-beaked echidna
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Spinifex hopping mouse
- Squirrel glider
- Swamp wallaby
- Tammar wallaby
- Tasmanian Devil
- Varied white-fronted capuchin
- Western grey kangaroo
- White-tufted marmoset
Reptiles
- Aldabra giant tortoise
- American alligator
- Blood python
- Boa constrictor
- Boyd's forest dragon
- Carolina box turtle
- Carpet python
- Central bearded dragon
- Corn snake
- Eastern water dragon
- Fiji crested iguana
- Freshwater crocodile
- Gila monster
- Green iguana
- Hermann's tortoise
- Lace monitor
- Leopard ctenotus
- Leopard tortoise
- Mesa gecko
- Murray short-necked turtle
- Pig-nosed turtle
- Pink-tongued skink
- Plumed basilisk
- Red-eared slider turtle
- Saw-shelled turtle
- Shingleback lizard
- Southern death adder
- Western blue-tongued lizard
- White-lipped tree-frog
References
- ^ a b "Gorge Wildlife Park". Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ "Find ZAA-accredited zoos and aquariums (in Australia and New Zealand)". Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA). Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ "Gorge Wildlife Park - Cudlee Creek". Royal Automobile Association of South Australia. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ "Gorge Wildlife Park". Adelaide Hills Visitor Information Centre. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ "Exotic birds in Australia". Zoochat (member author: WhistlingKite24). 21 December 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ "Petrogale penicillata — Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby". Species Profile and Threats Database. Department of the Environment. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
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