Fact sheets

These fact sheets provide an overview of the types of flora, fauna, habitats and environments located within or near the Field of Mars Reserve, East Ryde. Many of the species listed can be found in other parts of NSW.

This page is consistently in development with new fact sheets being created.

Invertebrate groups

Invertebrates are classified according to their features. The most common groups of invertebrates found in places like the Field of Mars Reserve and school grounds are annelids, arthropods and molluscs.

Annelids

Arachnids

Crustaceans

Insects

Myriapods

Gastropods

Bush cockroach

Centipede

Earthworm

Earwig

Golden tailed spiny ant

Golden orb weaving spider

Leaf curling spider

Millipede

Mole cricket

Phasmids

Pill bug

Red fingered marsh crab

Red triangle slug

St Andrew's Cross spider

Trapdoor spiders

Amphibians

Common eastern froglet

Red-crowned toadlet

Striped marsh frog

Australian magpie

Australian raven

Brush turkey

Channel-billed cuckoo

Bird with curved beak and long tail perched on a branch. The head and body are red in colour. The cheeks, tail and wing feathers are blue in colour.

Crimson rosella

Dusky moorhen

King parrot

Laughing kookaburra

Noisy miner

Pied currawong

Powerful owl

Rainbow lorikeet

Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Superb fairywren

Tawny frogmouth

White ibis

Wood duck

Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Common brushtail possum

Common ringtail possum

Grey-headed flying fox

Long-nosed bandicoot

Short-beaked echidna

Swamp wallaby

Eastern blue-tongued lizard

Eastern snake-necked turtle

Eastern water dragon

Red-bellied black snake

Southern leaf-tailed gecko

Plants

These species are found in the Field of Mars Reserve and other parts of NSW.

Bracken fern

Grass tree

Grey mangrove

Hairpin banksia

Environments

There are lots of different kinds of environments found in Australia. In the area around the Field of Mars Reserve you can find eucalypt forests, mangroves and salt marsh.

Eucalypt forest

Field of Mars Reserve

Mangrove forests

Habitats

Habitats are the homes for animals. Living habitats include trees, shrubs and ground cover plants. A good quality habitat also contains many non-living components including leaf litter, rocks, logs and water.

What is a habitat?

Leaf litter habitats

Ground cover habitats

Shrub habitats

Tree habitat

Rock and log habitats

Water habitats

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Fact sheets

Invertebrate groups

Annelids

Annelids

Arthropods

Arachnids

Crustaceans

Insects

Myriapods

Molluscs

Gastropods

Invertebrate species

Bush cockroach

Centipede

Earthworm

Earwig

Golden tailed spiny ant

Golden orb weaving spider

Leaf curling spider

Millipede

Mole cricket

Phasmids

Pill bug

Red fingered marsh crab

Red triangle slug

St Andrew's Cross spider

Trapdoor spiders

Amphibians

Common eastern froglet

Red-crowned toadlet

Striped marsh frog

Birds

Australian magpie

Australian raven

Brush turkey

Channel-billed cuckoo

Crimson rosella

Dusky moorhen

King parrot

Laughing kookaburra

Noisy miner

Pied currawong

Powerful owl

Rainbow lorikeet

Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Superb fairywren

Tawny frogmouth

White ibis

Wood duck

Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Mammals

Common brushtail possum

Common ringtail possum

Grey-headed flying fox

Long-nosed bandicoot

Short-beaked echidna

Swamp wallaby

Reptiles

Eastern blue-tongued lizard

Eastern snake-necked turtle

Eastern water dragon

Red-bellied black snake

Southern leaf-tailed gecko

Plants

Environments

Eucalypt forest

Field of Mars Reserve

Mangrove forests

Habitats

What is a habitat?

Leaf litter habitats

Ground cover habitats

Shrub habitats

Tree habitat

Rock and log habitats

Water habitats

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Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre

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