Birds you may see in the reserve Visiting Minyip Bushland Reserve Red Wattlebird Minyip is a town in the Minyip Bushland Reserve is Minyip Noisy Miner Wimmera region of Victoria, open to the public all year, Singing Honeyeater Australia, 320 kilometres with wheelchair access and White-plumed Honeyeater north-west of Melbourne. is gopher friendly. Bushland White-fronted Chat Camping site with facilities Jacky Winter (including power) is Red-capped Robin available at the Minyip Reserve Hooded Robin Minyip Wetlands. Horsham Varied Sittella Stawell WesternArarat Hwy Ballarat Public toilets are at Rufous Whistler Melbourne Magpie-lark the camping site and in the township (at the Grey Fantail roundabout in Main Street). Willie Wagtail Restless Flycatcher Acknowledgements Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Minyip Bushland Reserve Committee acknowledges the Eastern Rosella White-winged Triller following organisations for their support: White-browed Woodswallow Black-shouldered Kite Masked Woodswallow Brown Goshawk Dusky Woodswallow Brown Falcon Pied Butcherbird

Australian Hobby Australian Magpie A Victorian Government Project Nankeen Kestrel Australian Raven Crested Pigeon Little Raven Galah Australian Pipit

Long-billed Corella Mistletoebird Eastern Rosella Welcome Swallow Red-rumped Parrot Brown Songlark Blue Bonnet Rufous Songlark This Buloke (Allocasuarina luehmannii) F Pallid Cuckoo woodland is of national significance. Fan-tailed Cuckoo Minyip Lions Club Dunmunkle CWA Buloke woodlands are listed as an Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo Tawny Frogmouth endangered community under the Kelm Trust and Pipkorn Trust Laughing Kookaburra Commonwealth Environment Protection Brown Treecreeper and Biodiversity Conservation Act. The Striated Pardalote Photography: birds: Ian Morgan; plants: Keith Boschen; trees, shrubs, native grasses and other Weebill aerial map: Wimmera Catchment Management Authority native understorey species all contribute Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Yellow-rumped Thornbill to the significance of this woodland site. For more information, contact Parks Victoria 131 963 Yellow Thornbill Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Brief history The township of Minyip, whose name is Minyip Bushland an Aboriginal word meaning ‘ashes’, was Gold-dust Wattle established in the 1870s. Fifty-six acres Acacia acinacea (22 hectares) to the north-east of the Reserve town were set aside as a public reserve Satellite photo showing walking tracks in 1877. This reserve has had varied uses including sheep grazing, ten acres as a SHORT LOOP 700 m manure depot and Minyip’s rubbish tip. Mistletoebird LONG LOOP 2 km In 1995–96 bulldozers were used to bury the rubbish. Community volunteers helped with the cleanup and revegetation. The original vegetation was preserved and the current walking track surveyed and mown. In 1998 Parks Victoria named the area Minyip Bushland Reserve. Rest bench In 2002 a friends group was formed, with the aim of preserving and enhancing the area for future generations. Donald–Murtoa Road

A State Government grant Mt Pleasant Road Buloke Mistletoe enabled the walking track to Amyema linophylla subsp. orientale be resurfaced in 2013. Reserve boundary fence Carpark Coutts Road

Minyip Plants on the reserve Wetlands Identifi ed with numbered posts along the walking tracks in a clockwise direction, starting at the car park.

1 Scented Mat-rush – Lomandra effusa Buloke–fruit Allocasuarina luehmannii 2 Black-anther Flax-lily – Dianella aff. revoluta 3 Gold-dust Wattle – Acacia acinacea 9 Hedge Saltbush – Rhagodia spinescens 4 Umbrella Wattle – Acacia oswaldii 10 Desert Cassia – Senna artemisioides 5 Golden Wattle – Acacia pycnantha 11 Buloke Mistletoe – Amyema linophylla subsp. orientale 6 Sweet Bursaria, Christmas Bush – Bursaria spinosa 12 The results of direct seeding – various Acacias and Main Street Township of Minyip 7 Berrigan, Emu Bush – Eremophila longifolia Sennas have produced seed, which is now regenerating 8 Harlequin Mistletoe – Lysiana exocarpi 13 Buloke suckering promoted from shallow ripping

Golden Wattle Berrigan, Emu Bush Sweet Bursaria, Christmas Bush Desert Cassia Buloke female–flowers Buloke male–flowers Acacia pycnantha Eremophila longifolia Bursaria spinosa Senna artemisioides Allocasuarina luehmannii Allocasuarina luehmannii