Location & Description

Kennedy Park is located between the residential areas of McCarrs Creek Road and Kennedy Place with  access handles connecting from both roads. The Reserve occupies 0.85ha.

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Walking Tracks & Access

There are no formal tracks within the Reserve and access is limited.

Plants

Kennedy Park supports Grey Gum (E. punctata) and Grey Ironbark (E. paniculata) open forest on the Narrabeen shales and has been mapped as PC01 Spotted Gum Forest.

The top of the Reserve is Hawkesbury Sandstone Open-Forest dominated by Smooth-barked Apple (Angophora costata) and Sydney Peppermint (E. piperita) on the Hawkesbury Sandstone.

Animals

The many good habitat trees provide shelter and nesting hollows for many resident birds and arboreal mammals, including ‘micro-bats’, as well as a movement corridor to the National park and nearby bushland. The Reserve provides important habitat for Swamp Wallabies and long nosed Bandicoot.

The endangered Glossy Black-cockatoo is expected to occasionally visit the Reserve to feed on the Black She-oak.

Special Features

• Kennedy Park provides a wildlife corridor and habitat for fauna between the National Park, the escarpment and Ingleside Park
• it provides potential habitat for endangered and significant species including the Glossy Black-cockatoo, Squirrel Glider and Long Nosed Bandicoot
• it provides a diverse example of urban bushland, a record of pre-European landscape
• it provides an example of Spotted Gum Forest, a plant community of State conservation significance
• it contributes to the scenic and landscape quality of McCarrs Creek, and area of estuarine bushland
• it provides habitat trees and other niches for a range of native fauna including Swamp Wallabies and insectivorous bats

Related Info

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• To find out more about Kennedy Park, download its Plan of Management
• Find out more about Pittwater's amazing Vegetation Communities
• See the native animal species lists for Pittwater