Animals

The forests and woodlands of Carnarvon Station Reserve are the habitat of many species known to be in decline in other areas e.g. sugar and squirrel gliders & small forest birds such as speckled warblers.  Many of these species are found in or on the margins of semi-evergreen vine thicket.  These vine thickets reserve small populations of diverse fauna that were once associated with the large areas of vine thicket that have since been cleared throughout the bioregion.

The blacksoil grassland areas have been heavily impacted over decades of cultivation and this has reduced most native species requiring cover at ground level, such as quail, little buttonquails, zebra and double-barred finches (now noticeably increasing) as well as small native rodents and dasyurids (such as dunnarts and planigales). 

The woodlands of the alluvial flats are still dominated by noisy miners and grey and pied butcherbirds, which may reflect past management practices. There are small numbers of rufous bettongs, white-winged choughs, babblers and buttonquails that will hopefully increase over time.  There are many red-necked wallabies and eastern grey kangaroos and smaller numbers of whiptail wallabies, common wallaroos, black-striped wallabies & herbert’s rock wallabies.

Eastern Australian Bird Migration System

Carnarvon Station and the adjoining national parks are part of an archipelago of high-altitude areas found along the Great Dividing Range as it runs through Queensland. These areas provide habitat more akin to that found in the temperate grassy woodlands of south-eastern Australia.

The retention of large areas of woodland along this archipelago is critical to the maintenance of the eastern Australian bird migration system. Migratory birds such as the striated pardalote and the weebill use the northern woodlands of Carnarvon Station and its surrounds as an important food supply during the southern winter. These areas also provide habitat for non-migratory species that have suffered great reductions in population numbers further south. It is critical that large areas of 'temperate' woodland be conserved in this region if these species are to have a secure future.