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Australia's Arsenal
- Munitions Industries
in Melbourne's west

Stone Upon A Stone
-Stone wall construction
in Melbourne's west

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-Stories by women
in Melbourne's west

Still Here
- Aboriginal history
of Melbourne's west


PIPEMAKERS PARK

A Brief History of the Park
- and bluestone buildings

History of the Land Gardens

The Pipestacks
+ Memorial to Bruce Duff

Pioneer Women's Shelter

Park + Environment Projects


OTHER PROJECTS
Charles Grimes Re-enactment
The Maribyrnong River Walk
- Pol McMahon (April 1999
PICNIC
- contemporary art exhibition
ANNUAL REPORTS

1999 Annual Report

2001 Annual Report
2002 Annual Report

List of animals found in Pipemakers Park

Amphibians

-Spotted Marsh Frog

-Striped Marsh Frog

-Growling Grass Frog

-Yellow Throated Bell Frog

-Brown Froglets

Rodents

-Native Water Rat

-Native Mouse

Reptiles

-Tiger Snake

-Brown Snake

-Eastern Skink

-Red Striped Skink

-Dark Flecked Garden Skink

-Dwarf Skink

-Blue Tounge Lizard

Invertebrates

-Earth Worms

-Dragon Flies

-Mayfly Larvae

-Sawfly Larvae

-Water Boatmen

-Mosquitoes & Larvae

-Scale Insects

-Native Bee

-Gum Moth Caterpillars

-Beetle Larvae

-Wood Wasp (red)

Spiders

-Wolf Spider sp.

-Huntsman

-Golden Orb

-Daddy Long Legs

Other

-Pseudo Scorpian

-Echidna

-Ringtail Possum

-Brushtail Possum

 

List of Birds found in Pipemakers Park

Landbirds

-Kookaburra

-Welcome Swallow

-Willy Wagtail

-Superb Blue Wren

-Scrub Wren (white browed)

-Sulphur Crested Cockatoo

-Crimson Rosella

-Rainbow Lorikeet

-Little Lorikeet

-Golden Whistler

-Little Grassbird.

-Red Wattle Bird

-Yellow Faced Honey Eater

-Silver-Eyes

-Cisticolla

-Reed Warbler (nesting)

-Galaah

-Long Billed Corella

-Musk Lorikeet

-Purple Crowned Lorikeet

-Red-Rumped Parrot

-Hoary Headed Grebe

-Darter

-Brush Cockoo

-Sacred Kingfisher

-Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike

-Little Wattlebird

-White Plumed Honeyeater

-New Holland Honeyeater

-Magpie Lark

-Spurwing Plover

-Lathams Snipe

-Noisy Minor

Waterbirds

-Little Egret

-Brown Bittern

-Straw Necked Ibis

-Sacred Ibis

-Black Duck

-Mallard Duck

-Grey Teal

-Chestnut Teal

-Wood Duck

-Musk Duck

-Buff-Banded Rail

-Swamp Hen

-Hard Headed Duck (white eyed)

-Dusky Swamp Hen

-Rufous Night Heron

-Great Egret

-Great Cormorant

-Little Black Cormorant

-Little Pied Cormorant

-Quail (brown)

-Purple Swamphen

-Eurasian Coot

-Masked Lapwing

-Silver Gull

-Marsh Crake


Raptors


-1 pair Black Shoulder Kites (nesting)

-Wedge Tail Eagles (2 visiting)

-1 pair of Brown Falcons (nesting)

-Nankeen Kestrel

-1 Grey Headed Falcon

-Harrier

-Little Eagle

-Brown Goshawk

 

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