Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park on Instagram: "Nothing sweeter than a stilt chick tucked beside mum ❤️🐣 The Pied Stilt is one of Australia’s most graceful wading birds, instantly recognisable by its striking black-and-white plumage and impossibly long pink legs. You’ll find them patrolling wetlands, estuaries and coastal shallows across Australia, and stretching north through New Guinea and Indonesia to the Philippines. Light on their feet and highly visual hunters, they pick off insects, worm

Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park on Instagram: "Friends who eat together, stay together ❤️😋 The Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat is a master of survival in Australia’s arid and semi-arid regions. Found across South Australia, Victoria, and parts of New South Wales, this stocky burrowing marsupial weighs up to 29 kilograms and grows to about a metre long. Its thick grey-brown coat and signature hairy nose help it face dusty environments, while its slow metabolism allows it to thrive on tough, fibrous

Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park on Instagram: "Nothing says romance like a carefully stolen blue bottle cap. 💙✨ Satin Bowerbirds are full of surprises—starting with the fact that young males look just like females for the first seven years of life! Until they mature, these “green birds” share olive-green upperparts, scalloped off-white bellies, and brown wings and tails. Only the adult males develop that iconic glossy blue-black sheen, complete with a pale bill and striking violet-blue eyes. T

Built for leaves, naps, and treetops 🌿🐨 Koalas are found only in Australia, calling tall eucalyptus forests and low woodlands home. They can be found across eastern and southeastern regions, including Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Koalas have one of the most specialised diets in the animal kingdom. They feed almost exclusively on eucalyptus leaves, which provide both food and moisture. Because these leaves are tough and toxic to most animals, koalas rely on a high