Tyto is a 90 hectare wetland site located in close proximity to the township of Ingham. The wetlands are also less than a kilometre from the Bruce Highway. The wetland integrates lagoons, interpretive signs, lookouts and hides, to entice visitors to spend more time at Tyto. The extensive walking tracks throughout the wetlands allow visitors the unique opportunity to view wildlife closely without interference or disturbance to wildlife and their habitats. The name of the wetland comes from the endangered eastern Grass Owl (Tyto Capensis). The observation deck allows visitors a chance to see the Grass Owl as it flies out at dusk. Visitors also have the opportunity to to see the Osprey nest site. |
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How to Get There
Vehicles approaching Ingham from the south along Townsville Road should turn left down Cooper Street and park in the carpark on the right hand side at the end of the street. From here a walking track passes to the left of the Brothers Club and continues on to the wetland.
History Tyto Wetlands original aim was to restore and preserve an existing degraded wetland. The restoration work involved the eradication and control of introduced weed and tree species such as parragrass, hymenachne, lantana, guava and african tulip. The replanting of naturally occurring vegetation took place as well as the re-establishment of permanent lagoons. The project now aims to conserve an ecosystem for species of wildlife such as grass owls and crimson finches, as well as provide an educational resource for the community in promoting an environmentally significant link between rural and urban communities.
Bird List Updated 2008 ***Breeds locally **Regular Visitor *Rare Visitor ** | Orange-footed Scrubfowl | ** | Australian Hobby | *** | Common Koel | ** | Australian Brush-turkey | ** | Brolga | *** | Channel-billed Cuckoo | *** | Brown Quail | *** | Red-necked Crake | *** | Pheasant Coucal | *** | King Quail | *** | Bush-hen | ** | Southern Boobook | ** | Common Peafowl (peacock) | *** | Buff-banded Rail | *** | Barn Owl | *** | Wandering Whistling -Duck | *** | Spotless Crake | *** | Grass Owl | *** | Plumed Whistling-Duck | *** | White-browed Crake | *** | Masked Owl | ** | Australian Wood Duck | ** | Purple Swamp-hen | *** | Tawny Frogmouth | ** | Black Swan | ** | Eurasian Coot | ** | Australian Owlet-nightjar | *** | Magpie Goose | *** | Bush Stone-Curlew | ** | White-throated Nightjar | ** | Cotton Pygmy-Goose | *** | Red-backed Button-quail | *** | Large-tailed Nightjar | *** | Green pygmy-Goose | ** | Latham’s Snipe | ** | Spotted Nightjar | ** | Hardhead | ** | Bar-tailed Godwit | ** | White-Rumped Swiftlet | ** | Mallard | ** | Eastern Curlew | ** | Fork-tailed Swift | *** | Pacific Black Duck | ** | Little Curlew | ** | White-throated Needletail | ** | Grey Teal | ** | Common Greenshank | *** | Little Kingfisher | ** | Great Crested Grebe | ** | Marsh Sandpiper | *** | Azure Kingfisher | ** | Hoary-headed Grebe | * | Wood Sandpiper | ** | Laughing Kookaburra | *** | Australasian Grebe | ** | Common Sandpiper | *** | Blue-winged Kookaburra | ** | Darter | ** | Red-necked Stint | ** | Forest Kingfisher | ** | Little Black Cormorant | * | Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | ** | Sacred Kingfisher | ** | Pied Cormorant | ** | Curlew Sandpiper | * | Red-backed Kingfisher | ** | Little Pied Cormorant | *** | Comb-crested Jacana | ** | Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher | ** | Black-necked Stork | ** | Black-winged Stilt | ** | Rainbow Bee-eater | ** | Australian Pelican | * | Pacific Golden Plover | ** | Dollarbird | ** | White-necked Heron | * | Red-kneed Dotterel | * | Noisy Pitta | *** | White-faced Heron | *** | Black-fronted Dotterel | *** | Lovely Fairy-wren | ** | Pied Heron | *** | Masked Lapwing | *** | Red-backed Fairy-wren | ** | Eastern Reef Egret | ** | Australian Pratincole | *** | Striated Pardalote | ** | Cattle Egret | ** | Silver Gull | ** | Large-billed Scrubwren | ** | Little Egret | ** | Whiskered Tern | *** | Large-billed Gerygone | ** | Great Egret | ** | Caspian Tern | *** | Fairy Gerygone | ** | Intermediate Egret | ** | Gull-billed Tern | *** | White-throated Gerygone | ** | Nankeen Night Heron | *** | Spotted Turtle-Dove | ** | Weebill | *** | Little Bittern | *** | Peaceful Dove | ** | Little Friarbird | *** | Black Bittern | *** | Bar-shouldered dove | ** | Noisy Friarbird | ** | Glossy Ibis | ** | Topknot Pigeon | *** | Helmeted Friarbird | ** | Straw-necked Ibis | ** | Emerald Dove | *** | Blue-faced Honeyeater | ** | Australian White Ibis | *** | Pied Imperial-Pigeon | ** | Lewin’s Honeyeater | ** | Royal Spoonbill | ** | Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove | *** | Yellow-spotted Honeyeater | ** | Yellow-billed Spoonbill | ** | Wompoo Fruit-Dove | *** | Graceful Honeyeater | *** | Black-shouldered Kite | ** | Red-tailed black-Cockatoo | *** | White-gaped Honeyeater | *** | Pacific Baza | ** | Galah | *** | Yellow Honeyeater | ** | Black Kite | ** | Little Corella | *** | White-throated Honeyeater | *** | Brahminy Kite | ** | Sulphur-crested cockatoo | *** |
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