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Freshwater habitats
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/freshwater-habitats/Freshwater habitats include lakes, rivers, billabongs, wetlands and ponds. Many animals and plants live in or near these habitats. They rely on them to provide food, shelter and a place to breed.
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An eco-oasis in your backyard
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/sustainability/an-eco-oasis/Here are some tips on how to create a haven for native wildlife that also supplies your family with home grown fruit and veggies.
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Limestone caves
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/limestone-caves/Caves form in limestone (calcium carbonate), and occasionally in dolomite (calcium magnesium carbonate), when water containing dissolved carbon dioxide (carbonic acid) seeps into rock crevices and joints.
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Yellow-billed Spoonbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/yellow-billed-spoonbill/Yellow-billed Spoonbills can use much smaller bodies of water than the related Royal Spoonbills.
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White-striped Octopus
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/molluscs/white-striped-octopus-octopus-ornatus/White-striped Octopus - Callistoctopus ornatus
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Three-punctured Diving Beetle
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/three-punctured-diving-beetle/Three-punctured Diving Beetle
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Green Turtle
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/reptiles/green-turtle/Only three species of marine turtles are known to regularly occur in Sydney waters: the Green Turtle, the Loggerhead Turtle and the Leatherback Turtle.
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Royal Spoonbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/royal-spoonbill-platalea-regia/The Royal Spoonbill can feed faster and on larger prey than the Yellow-billed Spoonbill, as it has a shorter, broader bill with more papillae (touch receptors) inside the spoon.
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