Australia’s native animals and birds are bizarre and beautiful. Hopping creatures with big feet keeping their offspring in pouches, small possums that look like kites when gliding from tree to tree, birds that laugh and dive bomb from a branch because they have seen a worm even if it's under the surface of the soil and cuddly bears known all over the world which are not bears at all!

Australia’s animals and birds are filling a niche in the ecology because many have no counterpart in other parts of the world.

The laughing kookaburra is well known for its laughing call punctually at dawn and sunset. Aboriginal legend has it that the laugh tells the sky people to light the fire of day.

Laughing
Kookaburra

Brushtail Possum

Greater Glider

The green Tree Frog

King Parrot

Lorikeet

Emus are the better known large birds of Australia. This flightless, mormadic bird wanders over most parts of the continent. Females lay up to 20 dark green eggs, which they abandon immediately leaving them to the male to incubate..

Goanna

Pretty Face Wallaby

Emu