Bago Bluff is a

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, approximately 410 km northeast of

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. It is situated south west of Wauchope and includes parts of the former Broken Bago State Forest and a part of Lorne State Forest. The Bago Bluff National Park also includes in the northern section the old Bago Bluff Flora Reserve and Six B Flora Reserve. Bago Bluff offers splendid views of the Hastings Valley from the top of the bluff which can be accessed via several forest roads from the south, including Bago Road. The park's northern boundary is on southern side of the

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where there are two badly washed 4WD tracks into the park. Quarries in the park have previously yielded leaf and shell fossils. Birds that may be spotted in the park include:

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s (''Gymnorhina tibicen''),

golden whistler The Australian golden whistler (''Pachycephala pectoralis'') or golden whistler, is a species of bird found in forest, woodland, mallee, mangrove and scrub in Australia (except the interior and most of the north)Ken Simpson, K., & N. Day. (1994) ...

s (''Pachycephala pectoralis''), green winged pigeons, grey

fantail Fantails are small insectivorous songbirds of the genus ''Rhipidura'' in the family Rhipiduridae, native to Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Most of the species are about long, specialist aerial feeders, and named as "f ...

s (''Rhipidura''),

kookaburra Kookaburras are terrestrial tree kingfishers of the genus ''Dacelo'' native to Australia and New Guinea, which grow to between in length and weigh around . The name is a loanword from Wiradjuri ''guuguubarra'', onomatopoeic of its call. The ...

s (genus ''Dacelo''), large-billed scrubwrens (''Sericornis magnirostris''),

spotted pardalote The spotted pardalote (''Pardalotus punctatus'') is one of the smallest of all Australian birds at in length, and one of the most colourful; it is sometimes known as the diamondbird. Although moderately common in all of the reasonably fertile pa ...

s (''Pardalotus punctatus''),

pied currawong The pied currawong (''Strepera graculina'') is a black passerine bird native to eastern Australia and Lord Howe Island. One of three currawong species in the genus ''Strepera'', it is closely related to the butcherbirds and Australian magpie of ...

s (''Strepera graculina''), striated thornbills (''Acanthiza lineata'') and

white-browed scrubwren The white-browed scrubwren (''Sericornis frontalis'') is a passerine bird found on the New England Tablelands and coastal areas of Australia. Placed in the family (biology), family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with o ...

s (''Sericornis frontalis'').North East NSW Parks and Reserves
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has become a problem in the park where it is almost covering some of the tracks.

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National parks of New South Wales Protected areas established in 1999 1999 establishments in Australia {{NewSouthWales-protected-area-stub

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