Pidna National Park

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Pidna National Park
Gray-coated goggle bird (Zosterops lateralis)
Gray-coated goggle bird ( Zosterops lateralis )
Pidna National Park (Queensland)
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Coordinates: 26 ° 53 ′ 37.7 ″  S , 151 ° 58 ′ 25.3 ″  E
Location: Queensland , Australia
Next city: 25 km from Nanango
Surface: 160 ha
Founding: 2006
Brown Gerygone (Gerygone mouki)
Brown Gerygone ( Gerygone mouki )
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The Pidna National Park (English Pidna National Park ) is a 160 hectare national park in Queensland , Australia .

location

It is located in the Wide Bay-Burnett region in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast about 130 kilometers northwest of Brisbane and 190 kilometers southwest of Hervey Bay . The closest city is Nanango . From here you can reach the park via the D'Aguilar Highway southwards, from Yarraman further on the New England Highway the Yarraman Kooralgin Road branches off after four kilometers. It leads through the middle of the national park. There are no visitor facilities.

The national parks The Palms , Tarong , Benarkin and Mount Binga are in the vicinity .

Flora and fauna

The national park protects dry rainforest and open eucalyptus forest up to 460 meters high .

In the park numerous are birds home, including the Brown Thornbill ( Acanthiza pusilla ), the Brown Gerygone ( Gerygone mouki ), the Pied Currawong ( Strepera graculina ), the Salvadori Crow ( Corvus orru ) and the gray jacket Brillenvogel ( Zosterops lateralis ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Government - CAPAD 2010 ( MS Excel ; 170 kB), DSEWPaC , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  2. ↑ a b OSM - Pidna National Park , OpenStreetMap , accessed on October 7, 2012 (English)
  3. ↑ Species List , Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service , accessed October 7, 2012.