The Territory Wildlife Park is a

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at Berry Springs in the

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, some (about a 45 minutes drive) south of Darwin. It opened in 1989. Situated on 400 ha of natural bushland, it contains native animals and plants representative of Northern Territory, and especially

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al, environments. It contributes to their conservation through research programs as well as through public education. The three main habitats represented are

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and monsoon vine forest. The Territory Wildlife Park is a member of the Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA).

Fauna

The many species of animals are kept in the park in various exhibit precincts including: 'Aquarium'; 'Billabong'; 'Monsoon Forest Walk'; 'Nocturnal House'; 'Oolloo Sandbar'; 'Paperbark Walk'; 'Rocky Ridge'; 'Walk-through Aviary' and 'Woodland Walk'. The species include: ;Birds Wedge-tailed_Eagle_at_Territory_Wildlife_Park

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* Australasian grebe * Australian owlet-nightjar *

Australian pelican The Australian pelican (''Pelecanus conspicillatus'') is a large waterbird in the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant in New Zealand. It ...

* Bar-shouldered dove * Beach stone-curlew * Black-breasted buzzard *

Blue-faced honeyeater The blue-faced honeyeater (''Entomyzon cyanotis''), also colloquially known as the Bananabird, is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. It is the monotypic taxon, only member of its genus, and it is most closely related to hon ...

Blue-winged kookaburra The blue-winged kookaburra (''Dacelo leachii'') is a large species of kingfisher native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea. Measuring around , it is slightly smaller than the more familiar laughing kookaburra. It has cream-coloured u ...

* Bush stone-curlew * Bush thick-knee * Channel-billed cuckoo * Chestnut-breasted mannikin * Comb-crested jacana * Common koel * Crimson finch * Dollarbird * Emerald ground dove *

Emu The emu (; ''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is a species of flightless bird endemism, endemic to Australia, where it is the Tallest extant birds, tallest native bird. It is the only extant taxon, extant member of the genus ''Dromaius'' and the ...

* Figbird * Forest kingfisher *

Gouldian finch The Gouldian finch (''Chloebia gouldiae''), also known as the Gould's finch or the rainbow finch, is a colourful passerine bird that is native to Australia. Taxonomy The Gouldian finch was described by British ornithologist John Gould in 1844 ...

Green pygmy goose The green pygmy goose (''Nettapus pulchellus'') is a small perching duck which breeds in southern New Guinea and northern Australia.Alpher, Barry. 2004. Pama-Nyungan: Phonological Reconstruction and Status as a Phylo-Genetic Group. In Claire Bowe ...

* Hooded parrot *

Jabiru The jabiru ( or ; ''Jabiru mycteria'') is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes. It sometimes wanders into the United States, usually in Texas, but has also been reported in Mississippi, Oklahoma ...

* Long-tailed finch * Partridge pigeon * Pheasant coucal *

Pied imperial pigeon The pied imperial pigeon (''Ducula bicolor'') is a relatively large, Piebald, pied species of pigeon. It is found in forest, woodland, mangrove, plantations and scrub in Southeast Asia, ranging from Myanmar and Thailand, throughout Indonesia and ...

* Radjah shelduck * Rainbow pitta * Red-collared lorikeet *

Rose-crowned fruit dove The rose-crowned fruit dove (''Ptilinopus regina''), also known as pink-capped fruit dove or Swainson's fruit dove, is a medium-sized fruit dove that is found in parts of southern Indonesia, northern Australia and eastern Australia. Taxonomy Th ...

Sacred kingfisher The sacred kingfisher (''Todiramphus sanctus'') is a medium-sized woodland kingfisher that occurs in mangroves, woodlands, forests and river valleys in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the western Pacific. Taxonomy The binomial name ''H ...

* Southern boobook * Spangled drongo *

Tawny frogmouth The tawny frogmouth (''Podargus strigoides'') is a species of frogmouth native to the Australian mainland and Tasmania and found throughout. It is a big-headed, stocky bird often mistaken for an owl due to its nocturnal habits and similar colouri ...

* Tiwi masked owl * Varied Lorikeet *

Wedge-tailed eagle The wedge-tailed eagle (''Aquila audax'') also known as the eaglehawk, is the largest bird of prey in the continent of Australia. It is also found in southern New Guinea to the north and is distributed as far south as the state of Tasmania. A ...

* White-bellied cuckoo-shrike * White-breasted woodswallow * White-throated honeyeater * Yellow oriole ;Fish *

Archerfish The archerfish (also known as spinner fish or archer fish) or Toxotidae are a monotypic family (although some include a second genus) of perciform tropical fish known for their unique predation technique of "shooting down" land-based insects a ...

* Barred grunter * Banded rainbowfish * Barcoo grunter *

Barramundi The barramundi (''Lates calcarifer''), Asian sea bass, or giant sea perch (also known as dangri, apahap or siakap) is a species of catadromous fish in the family Latidae of the order Carangiformes. The species is widely distributed in the I ...

* Beach-rock mangrove goby * Bigfin mudskipper * Black catfish * Blackmast (Strawman) * Blue devil * Blueback blue-eye * Blue-green chromis * Chequered rainbowfish * Coal grunter * Diamond mullet * Dwarf rainbowfish * Estuary cod * Exquisite rainbowfish * Fly-specked hardyhead * Freshwater whipray * Giant glassfish * Giant gudgeon * Gulf saratoga * Hyrtl's catfish * Indo-Pacific tarpon * Lorentz's grunter * Mangrove jack * Moorish idol * Mouth almighty * Pikey bream * Poreless gudgeon * Primitive archerfish * Rendahl's catfish * Reticulated glassfish * Sailfin glass perchlet * Shadow goby * Sharpnose grunter * Sooty grunter * Spangled grunter * Spotted blue-eye * Spotted scat * Starry pufferfish * Threadfin rainbowfish * Western clownfish * Western gobbleguts * Whitetail squirrelfish * Wilson's mangrove goby * Yellowfin surgeonfish ;Frogs * Giant snapping frog * Magnificent tree frog ;Invertebrate Black_Flying-foxes

* Flame-backed fiddler crab ;Mammals *

Agile wallaby The agile wallaby (''Notamacropus agilis''), also known as the sandy wallaby, is a species of wallaby found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea. It is the most common wallaby in north Australia. The agile wallaby is a sandy colour, beco ...

Antilopine kangaroo The antilopine kangaroo (''Osphranter antilopinus''), also known as the antilopine wallaroo or the antilopine wallaby, is a species of Macropodidae, macropod found in northern Australia: in Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, the Top End of the N ...

* Bare-rumped sheathtail bat * Black flying fox *

Black wallaroo The black wallaroo (''Osphranter bernardus''), also known as Woodward's wallaroo, is a species of macropod restricted to a small, mountainous area in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, between South Alligator River and Nabarlek. It cl ...

* Common planigale *

Dingo The dingo (either included in the species ''Canis familiaris'', or considered one of the following independent taxa: ''Canis familiaris dingo'', ''Canis dingo'', or ''Canis lupus dingo'') is an ancient (basal (phylogenetics), basal) lineage ...

Ghost bat The ghost bat (''Macroderma gigas'') is a species of bat found in northern Australia. The species is the only Australian bat that preys on large vertebrates – birds, reptiles and other mammals – which they detect using acute sight and heari ...

* Golden bandicoot *

Grassland melomys The grassland mosaic-tailed rat, or grassland melomys (''Melomys burtoni''), is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. In Australia it is found along the northern coast from Kimberley to New Sou ...

* Narbalek * Northern brown bandicoot * Northern brushtail possum *

Northern quoll The northern quoll (''Dasyurus hallucatus''), also known as the northern native cat, the North Australian native cat or the satanellus is a carnivorous marsupial native to Australia. Taxonomy The northern quoll is a member of the family Das ...

Rakali The rakali (''Hydromys chrysogaster''), also known as the rabe, the "Australian otter" or water-rat, is an Australian native rodent first scientifically described in 1804. Adoption of the Ngarrindjeri name ''rakali'' is intended to foster a posit ...

* Rock ringtail possum *

Short-beaked echidna The short-beaked echidna (''Tachyglossus aculeatus''), also called the short-nosed echidna, is one of four living species of echidna, and the only member of the genus ''Tachyglossus'', from Ancient Greek (), meaning "fast", and (), meaning ...

* Short-eared rock-wallaby * Spectacled hare-wallaby *

Sugar glider The sugar glider (''Petaurus breviceps'') is a small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal gliding possum. The common name refers to its predilection for sugary foods such as sap and nectar and its ability to glide through the air, much lik ...

;Reptiles * Black-headed python *

Brown tree snake The brown tree snake (''Boiga irregularis''), also known as the brown catsnake, is an arboreal rear-fanged colubrid snake native to eastern and northern coastal Australia, eastern Indonesia (Sulawesi to Papua), Papua New Guinea, and many island ...

* Children's python * Darwin carpet python *

Estuarine crocodile The saltwater crocodile (''Crocodylus porosus'') is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaland to northern Australia and Micronesia. It h ...

Freshwater crocodile The freshwater crocodile (''Crocodylus johnstoni)'', also known Common name, commonly as the Australian freshwater crocodile, Johnstone's crocodile, and the freshie, is a species of crocodile native to the northern regions of Australia. Unlike ...

* Frilled lizard * Giant cave gecko * Golden tree snake * Hosmer's spiny-tailed skink * King brown snake * Merten's water monitor * Northern blue-tongued skink * Northern death adder * Northern red-faced turtle * Northern snake-necked turtle * Northern snapping turtle * Northern spiny-tailed gecko * Northern yellow-faced turtle *

Olive python The olive python (''Liasis olivaceus'')
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Pig-nosed turtle The pig-nosed turtle (''Carettochelys insculpta''), also known as the Fly River turtle, the pitted-shelled turtle, and the Warrajan is a species of turtle which is native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea. It is the only living mem ...

* Rough knob-tailed gecko *

Water python The water python (''Liasis fuscus'') is a python species found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. No subspecies are currently recognized. Like all other pythons, it is not venomous. Taxonomy German naturalist Wilhelm Peters described the water ...

* Western brown snake

References

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* * 1989 establishments in Australia Zoos established in 1989 Zoos in the Northern Territory Biological research institutes in Australia Parks in the Northern Territory Wildlife parks in Australia {{zoo-stub

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