If we're lucky, winter at Tarcutta sees the arrival of Swift Parrots as they move up and down south-eastern Australia and across to Tasmania looking for food. These birds are nationally endangered – there are thought to be just 1,000 breeding pairs left. Tarcutta also protects:
Animals
Squirrel Glider, Yellow-footed Antechinus, Tree Skink, Spotted Grass Frog.
Plants
White Cypress Pine, Small-leaf Bush Pea, Honeypot, Many-flowered Mat-rush, Kurrajong.
Vegetation communities
Mugga Ironbark Scribbly Gum open forest, Grassy White Box woodland and forest (nationally critically endangered), Red Stringybark open forest.