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The Bilby

Into the desert lands you've fled

And these are all too dry,

When you have gone,

Will you be missed?

Will there be just me to cry?

Little friend,we're losing you,

You have become so rare,

But still'there is some time for us,

If people will but care.

The Bilby with its long,soft blue-grey fur and delicate features seem out of place in the harsh deserts in which it now must live.

Once inhabiting large areas of mainland Australia,it is now restricted to desert regions of central Australia and a few scattered colonies in Western Australia.Feral animals and habitat destruction have contributed to the Bilby,s decline.

This noctural animal spends the hot days in its burrow,emerging after dark to feed on insects,seeds bulbs and fungi found around the hummock grasslands and acacia shrublands in which it lives.

The Thorn Acacia is an erect,prickly shrub flowering in winter and spring on the dry rocky ridges of inland New South Wales,South Australia and the Northern Territory.