Byrrill Creek walking track

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A recently upgraded roughly 450m NPWS track from Cutters Camp campground to Byrrill Creek past ancient fig trees, confirmed on the official NSW National Parks site.

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Distance

0.45 km

Est. time

7 min

Elevation gain

3 m

Route type

Out & back

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Species to look for on this trail

Ancient trees and rare flora confirmed in this park. Spot one? Add it as a sighting pin below.

Moreton Bay Fig

Ficus macrophylla

Buttressed rainforest emergent▾

Buttressed rainforest emergent

NPWS highlights Mebbin National Park's large ancient fig trees along the Byrrill Creek walking track — Moreton Bay fig is the classic massive buttressed fig of these Tweed Valley subtropical rainforests, capable of reaching 60m with supplementary trunks formed from thickened aerial roots.

How to spot it

Imposing plank buttress roots; large, leathery, dark green elliptic leaves 15-30cm long; older specimens send down aerial roots that fuse into extra trunks supporting a huge spreading crown. Grows along watercourses as an emergent rainforest canopy tree.

Family Moraceae · Source: Wikipedia: Ficus macrophylla; NSW National Parks — Mebbin National Park

Photo: DO'Neil (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons

Wildlife you might see on this trail

Animals confirmed in this park. Spot one? Add it as a sighting pin below.

Queensland Tube-Nosed Bat

Nyctimene robinsoni

Vulnerable — NSW: Vulnerable▾

Vulnerable — NSW: Vulnerable

The eastern or Queensland tube-nosed bat is a megabat in the family Pteropodidae that lives in north-eastern Australia. N. robinsoni is one of the few species of megabat that roosts solitarily. They get their common name from their raised tubular nostrils which are unlike those of most other species in the family. They are a deep brown with gray heads and sparse yellow spotting.

How to spot it

As a species of Pteropodidae, the fruit eating bats, it is the only Nyctimene bat to occur on mainland Australia.

Family Pteropodidae · Source: Atlas of Living Australia + Wikipedia: Nyctimene robinsoni

Little Lorikeet

Parvipsitta pusilla

Endangered — NSW: Vulnerable, SA: Endangered▾

Endangered — NSW: Vulnerable, SA: Endangered

The little lorikeet is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It is endemic to Australia. It is a small parrot, predominantly green in plumage with a red face. Its natural habitats are temperate eucalyptus forest and woodland, subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

How to spot it

Measuring 15 cm (5.9 in) in length, the male and female are similarly coloured, although the latter is a little duller. The crown, lores and throat are red, the nape and shoulder bronze-coloured and the remainder of the plumage green. The belly is paler and yellow-green.

Family Psittacidae · Source: Atlas of Living Australia + Wikipedia: Parvipsitta pusilla

Grey-Headed Flying-Fox

Pteropus poliocephalus

Vulnerable — AUS: Vulnerable, ACT: Vulnerable, NSW: Vulnerable, VIC: Vulnerable, SA: Rare▾

Vulnerable — AUS: Vulnerable, ACT: Vulnerable, NSW: Vulnerable, VIC: Vulnerable, SA: Rare

The grey-headed flying fox is a megabat native to Australia. The species shares mainland Australia with three other members of the genus Pteropus: the little red P. scapulatus, spectacled P. conspicillatus, and the black P. alecto. The grey-headed flying fox is the largest bat in Australia.

How to spot it

Real occurrence confirmed near Mebbin National Park (Atlas of Living Australia, 2021) — no separate physical description was available on Wikipedia for this species, see the source link for more.

Family Pteropodidae · Source: Atlas of Living Australia + Wikipedia: Pteropus poliocephalus

Photo via iNaturalist Australia (CC-BY-NC 4.0 (Int)), collected by Dhanishta