Sentences with phrase «beaked echidna»

The short - beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), identified by the long spines covering its back, is found on Fraser Island, though rarely seen.

She then compared this information with data collected from 11 living mammals and 12 living reptiles, including the short - beaked echidna and the spectacled caiman.

For instance, the long - beaked echidna, a spiny, egg - laying mammal, is known from only a single specimen collected in 1961 by a Dutch researcher in Indonesia's Papua Province.

Long - beaked echidnas (Zaglossus) There are only three species of long - beaked echidna, all native to New Guinea.

This provides an opportunity to spot a vast range of animals including Kangaroo Island kangaroos, Tammar wallabies, short - beaked echidnas, koalas, Rosenberg's goanna and 260 species of birds, with endangered glossy black cockatoos, hooded plovers, Cape Barren geese, scarlet robins, southern emu - wrens and caspian terns - prime species for enthusiasts.

A rich array of marsupials including eastern grey kangaroos, swamp and red - necked wallabies and short - beaked echidnas is on offer across the regions, with East Gippsland particularly attractive to travellers interested in shyer forest dwellers, including yellow - bellied and greater gliders, lace monitors, king parrots, eastern whipbirds, satin bowerbirds, numerous honeyeaters and the most famous songbird in Australia, the superb lyrebird.