Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Myall Lakes National Park
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Environment== Myall Lakes National Park incorporates a patchwork of freshwater lakes, the ocean, islands, native flora, dense littoral rainforest and beaches. Since 1999, Myall Lakes has been listed under the [[Ramsar Convention]].<ref name="ramsar">{{cite web |title=Myall Lakes: Internationally recognised wetlands |url=https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/myall-lakes-national-park/learn-more#ACE383FE09BD4ACF8E2B0E50BE6CB289 |publisher=NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service |access-date=4 September 2018}}</ref> ===Fauna=== The lakes support a large variety of birds including [[bowerbirds]], [[white-bellied sea eagle]] and [[tawny frogmouths]].<ref name="EastCoastAus">{{cite book|last1=Dragicevich|first1=Peter|title=East Coast Australia|date=Aug 2014|publisher=Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd|location=Printed in China|isbn=9781-74220-425-3|pages=126β127|edition=5th}}</ref> Other native Fauna which can be seen in the park includes the nocturnal [[long-nosed bandicoot]] which has grey-brown fur and a pointed snout for which it uses to forage for worms and insects. The [[Striped marsh frog]] can be found near ponds and swamps and has a distinct sound which can be heard all year round.<ref name="MLNP-LearnMore">{{cite web|title=Myall Lakes National Park|url=http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/myall-lakes-national-park/learn-more#plants-animals|website=Skip to contentNSW National Parks and Wildlife Service|access-date=20 May 2017}}</ref> The [[Eastern swamp crayfish]] was first discovered here.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McCormack |first=Robert B. |title=The eastern swamp crayfish ''Gramastacus lacus'' sp. n. (Decapoda, Parastacidae) a new species of freshwater crayfish from coastal New South Wales, Australia |journal=[[ZooKeys]] |date=4 April 2014 |issue=398|pages=53β67 |pmid=24715801 |publisher=Pensoft Publishers |doi=10.3897/zookeys.398.7544 |url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3693 |pmc=3978226 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Myall Lakes National Park
(section)
Add topic