Backyard Wildlife | Floral Emblems of Australia | Wildflowers
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Backyard Wildlife

No matter how large or small your backyard is, there is bound to be something passing through or living there. The excitement to be had by young children, to see a possum (except when they nest in your roof) in their back yard, or maybe a python curled around your balcony or frogs enjoying your toilet bowl… (ewww…).

Of course you lucky ones that live next door a nature reserve, bush land or national park, are more likely to see wildlife up close.

For the city slicker living in towns and city suburbs and who call the city landscape their backyard, some wildlife have adapted to the changing conditions and environment, from possums in your local reserves and parks, kookaburras that sit on the balconies of home units, and Peregrine falcons seen flying around the central business district, there is bound to be something in your backyard.

Check out our wildlife living in the backyard… and come back as we add more images from people’s backyard.

Lined Firetail Skink (Morethia ruficauda)

Floral Emblems of Australia

Do you know what the floral emblems of Australia are? Check out our information on Australia’s floral emblems for states, territories and nationally.

Sturt's Desert Rose (Gossypium sturtianum
Sturt’s Desert Rose (Gossypium sturtianum) – floral emblem of the Northern Territory

Wildflowers

Check out some of our amazing wildflowers to be found in Australia, with more being added, including Wildflowers of Central Australia and Mass Wildflower Displays.

Wildflowers - Australia - Ausemade
Wildflowers, Australia

FaunaFauna Index Bats (Chiroptera) Birds Camel Chilopoda Crustacea Dingo Frogs Gastropoda Horse Hyrtl’s Catfish Insects Macropodidae Mammalia Marsupials Monotreme Reptiles Rodentia Class Mammalia Spiders Spinifex Hopping Mouse

FloraFlora Index Acacia Anigozanthos (Kangaroo Paws) Annual Yellowtop Apium prostratum subsp. prostratum var filiforme Apple Bush (Pterocaulon sphacelatum) Australian Bluebell Australian Gossypium Banksia Batswing Coral Tree Billy Buttons Birdsville Indigo Blue Pincushion Bush Banana Callistemon Calothamnus quadrifidus Cape Honeysuckle Cassia fistula (Golden Shower) Cattle Bush Common Heath Crotalaria Darwinia wittwerorum (Wittwer’s Mountain Bell) Daviesia oppositifolia (Rattle-pea) Desert Oaks Drumsticks Eremophila Eucalyptus Ficus Flannel Cudweed (Actinobole uliginosum) Georges Indigo Goatshead Burr (Sclerolaena bicornis) Golden Everlasting Goodenia Gossypium Grass and Grasses Grass Trees Grevillea Grey Germander Hakea Kapok Bush (Aerva javanica) Lambertia sp Leptospermum MacDonnell Ranges Cycad Maireana scleroptera Mexican Poppy Minnie Daisy Mistletoe Family Nardoo Native Apricot Nicotiana megalosiphon subspecies sessilifolia Nuytsia floribunda Orange Spade Flower Orchidaceae Parakeelyas (Calandrinia) Pebble Bush (Stylobasium spathulatum) Perennial Yellow Top Pink Everlasting Pink Rock Wort Poached Egg Daisy Portulaca Proteaceae Ptilotus Quandong Resurrection Fern Rosy Dock Ruby Saltbush Santalum Solanum Spike Centaury Spinifex Storkbill (Erodum cygnorum) Striped Mint Bush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tall Saltbush Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Tribulus eichlerianus Upside-down Plant Urodon dasyphylla Variable Daisy Waratah (Telopea) Wertabona Daisy White Cedar (Melia azedarach) White Indigo White Paper Daisy Wild Passionfruit Wild Stock Woolly-Headed Burr Daisy Woolly Bush Yellow-keeled Swainsona