Local Flora & Fauna

Hobsons Bay is well known for its brilliant coastline that attracts migratory and resident wading birds, the creek systems that provide excellent habitat corridors for flora and fauna species, and our critically endangered plains grassland areas that represent the original landscape of Hobsons Bay.

You can visit the Nature of Hobsons Bay iNaturalist page to see some of the species people are observing in Hobsons Bay.

A number of our local species are rare or threatened:

Flora

• Spiny Rice Flower (Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens)
• Tough Scurf-pea (Cullen tenax)
• Button Wrinklewort (Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides)
• Sunshine Diuris Orchid (Diuris fragrantissima)

For more information on the flora in Hobsons Bay please check out our indigenous plant factsheets(PDF, 14MB)

Fauna

• Altona Skipper Butterfly(PDF, 2MB) (Hesperilla flavescens)
• Golden Sun Moth(PDF, 4MB) (Synemon plana)
• Swift Parrot(PDF, 2MB) (Lathamus discolor)
• Striped Legless Lizard (Delma impar)
• Growling Grass Frog (Litoria raniformis)

Use the Birds of Hobsons Bay's Coastline(PDF, 13MB) booklet below to help you identify our coastline birds and contribute to their conservation by entering your bird count data online.