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Extensive areas of tall magnificent gums and angophoras once covered areas of valleys about the harbour's western
extremes. Their remnant populations are in places like the Lane Cove National Park and often in small suburban parks.
Hollows in old growth timber provide nesting sites for Southern Boobooks Ninox novaeseelandiae and Sulphur-crested
Cockatoos Cacatua galerita. Taller trees are used by the Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus and among
the leaves and along creek banks the Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus can be seen. Among the branches
and often on the ground is the Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica while denser areas may hold the
Rose Robin Petroica rosea. Along the sandstone escarpment about Middle Harbour you occasionally glimpse the
Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae.
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