National Bilby Day was first launched in 2005, and is held on the second Sunday in September each year, so the actual date varies.
Bilby
Bilbies are active during the night. They are nocturnal.
The bilby is critically endangered.
The Lesser bilby is already extinct. The Greater bilby is also critically endangered.
The bilby fence was designed to keep reintroduced captive-bred bilbies safe from introduced predators such as dingoes, as well as domestic dogs and cats.
Richard Bilby died in 1998.
Richard Bilby was born in 1931.
Bilby's Doll was created in 1976.
A baby bilby is called a joey. The bilby is a marsupial, and all marsupial young are known as joeys.
The Greater bilby, with the scientific name of Macrotis lagotis, is a small marsupial of Australia. It is a member of the bandicoot family, and a nocturnal omnivore which is found in arid and remote areas of the continent. The Greater bilby is the only surviving bilby: its cousin, the Lesser bilby, has not been sighted since 1931.
There is only one species of bilby remaining. It is the Greater bilby ((Macrotis lagotis). There was one other species of bilby, now extinct, and that was the Lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura).
The two known bilbies are the Greater Bilby and the Lesser Bilby. The Lesser Bilby is believed to be extinct.