The main native wildlife found around the Coober Pedy area are kangaroos, wallabies and emus. There are sand goannas, bearded dragons, geckos and perentie lizards.
Dingoes are found outside the dog fence.
There are about 28 varieties of bird life such as wedge tailed eagles, black kites, square tailed kites, bustards or bush turkeys, budgerigars, galahs, parrots and finches, crested pigeon, inland dotterels, red caped robin and Australian pratincole just to name a few.
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