Tick Off the Plants and Animals That You Find

Moonee Ponds Creek Junior Ranger Guide

Tick off the plants and animals that you find

I look like this My name is You might find me Something I do A hard, flat, light Silcrete Rocks Within Strathnaver I was used by coloured rock covered I am a hard, light Grasslands Indigenous people in lichen coloured rock to make stone tools Medium grey bird with Crested Pigeon On the ground I live near water tinges of brown. Black I am mostly grey with surrounding the because I have to stripes on wings and a tinges of brown. I have creek, especially in drink everyday black crest black stripes on my mown areas winds and a black mohawk A medium sized paw Animal Tracks On bare ground or I tell a story of print in sand I come in all different in mud – look what lives in or shapes and sizes closely, I may be uses the area very small Group of tall aquatic Common Reed I am a water plant The stems were plants with flat green I am a type of reed that that grows in used by Indigenous leaves and a thick, fluffy grows between 1 and 3 shallow water people to make white flower metres tall along the creek necklaces and woven baskets Grey lizard with brown Blue Tongue On a rock soaking When scared I stripes across back and I am grey with wide up the sun to warm show my bright tail and a blue tongue brown stripes across my my cold blood blue tongue to back and tail and have a appear threatening blue tongue Black beetle walking Beetles I often make my Most beetles wear over yellow leaf I come in many home under leaves, hard armour to different shapes, sizes logs and rocks or in protect our fragile and colours trees. You may also wings and body see some of us flying around Tall wooden sculpture Totem Poles In Boeing Reserve, Each totem pole representing a new Tall sculptures carved Cross Keys Reserve tells a different plant shooting up from out of River Red Gum and Travancore story of the history the ground trees Park of the waterway

Insect with a long body Dragonfly Hovering over the I catch insects to and see-through wings, I have a long body with creek looking for eat with my feet resting on a rock four see-through wings food and mates Long, slender, green, Eucalyptus Leaves Hanging from a I capture the sun to down hanging leaves Long, slender, green, Eucalyptus tree help the tree grow down hanging leaves along Moonee big and strong Ponds Creek A skinny, long, blue-ish Freshwater Crayfish Sometimes you can I only like to feed coloured crustacean on I am a skinny, 10-30cm see me in the during the darkest the creek floor long, blue-ish coloured shallows of the part of the night crustacean creek, but my burrows may be easier to find Adult duck with Water Birds In the creek or I have webbed feet ducklings, feeding in I come in many surrounding parks to help me swim grass different shapes, sizes and a bill to feed in and colours but always the water show adaptions for living in the water Brown Tree Frog on the Frog Along the waters Only male frogs side of a log I come in many edge. You may not make a sound – different shapes, sizes see me but if you this is to attract and colours listen carefully you female frogs will likely hear my call