Site Report: You Yangs Regional Park, Australia

Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi)

Brown-headed Honeyeater (Melithreptus brevirostris)

Small remnant forest in Melbourne's western suburbs

Map of Site Report: You Yangs Regional Park, Australia

2025-11-19: We had some time to kill en route to the airport, so we stopped in this park for a short walk.

Kingdom: Animals (16 records, 0 images)

Phylum: Arthropods (1 record, 0 images)

Class: Insects (1 record, 0 images)

Order: Butterflies and Moths (1 record)
- Family: Brush-footed Butterflies
- Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi)

Phylum: Chordates (15 records, 0 images)

Class: Birds (15 records, 0 images)

Order: Cuckoos (1 record)
- Family: Cuckoos
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis)

Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (1 record)
- Family: Kingfishers
- Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Order: Parrots (3 records)
- Family: Cockatoos
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)
- Family: New World Parrots
- Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximius)
- Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)

Order: Perching Birds (10 records)
- Family: Fairywrens and Allies
- Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus)
- Family: Fantails
- Gray Fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen)
- Little Raven (Corvus mellori)
- Family: Thornbills and Allies
- Brown Thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla)
- Striated Thornbill (Acanthiza lineata)
- Family: Whistlers and Allies
- Rufous Whistler (Pachycephala rufiventris)