Animals & Outback Scenery, South Australia
Written By Mark Eaglesfield
Kangaroos
The first photo is from The Dutchman’s Stern, a small mountain I hiked near Quorn in the Outback. Everything else is from Gorge Wildlife Park, Adelaide Hills.
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Western grey kangaroo guards the mountain.
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Reds and albino reds? Not sure if any greys.
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Reds.
Wallabies
The first two photos are a wallaby I met in the Pound Gap area of Wilpena Pound. The rest of the photos and the video are from Gorge Wildlife Park, Adelaide Hills.
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Yellow-footed rock wallaby.
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A seemingly albino wallaby.
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Feline shadow.
Grey-headed flying foxes (also known as fruit bats)
From the wildlife park.
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I have never seen a creature crawl so awkwardly. Look, it's embarrassed.
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They're better at hanging than crawling.
Other native mammals
I found the echidna on St Mary’s Peak, Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges of Outback South Australia. The koalas are from the wildlife park.
Kookaburras
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Kookaburra at Hills Homestead, Wilpena Pound.
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Laughing kookaburra, wildlife park.
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Blue-winged kookaburra, wildlife park.
Other native birds
See the below section, on scenery, for a video of Major Mitchell’s cockatoos flying in the Outback.
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Noisy miner, Adelaide Botanic Garden.
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Noisy miner, botanic garden.
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Sulphur-crested cockatoo, Adelaide park.
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Rainbow lorikeet, Adelaide park.
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A black swan crosses the line. Bank of the River Torrens, Adelaide.
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Magpie-larks (wee magpies), Himeji Garden, Adelaide.
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Australian white ibis, roaming free in the wildlife park.
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Southern (two-wattled) cassowary, wildlife park.
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Emu. Only edited photo here - it was getting dark.
Non-native animals
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Beauty and the Beast.
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Barred Rock chicken?
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Ostrich. More curious about me than its emu cousin.
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Brown capuchin monkey, wildlife park.
Roadside scenery; sheep and Major Mitchell’s cockatoos.
North to south from Wilpena Pound to the Clare Valley, and one photo from further west in Port Augusta.
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Drive carefully, especially at dawn and dusk.
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Mt Karawarra - Mt Ohlssen-Bagge chain, Wilpena Pound.
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Rawnsley Park Bluff (Illuka Peak - Tumburru Peak chain).
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Elder Range (Arkaba area), south of Wilpena Pound.
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Cemetery in Hawker.
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Willochra Plain near Hawker.
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Near Cradock.
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South on the R.M. Williams Way.
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Pre-dyed wool.
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Between Jamestown and Spalding.
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The Outback on a cloudy day. Flinders Lookout, Port Augusta.