Bilby

Hello Wednesday been a cool day no need for the air con, being Wednesday it is Aussie Day and today animal is the bilby.

Macrotis, known as bilbies or rabbit-bandicoots, is a genus of desert-dwelling marsupial omnivores; they are members of the order Peramelemorphia. At the time of European colonisation of Australia, there were two species. The lesser bilby became extinct in the 1950s; the greater bilby survives but remains endangered.

There is estimated to be about 600-700 bilbies left around the world. Before European settlement, bilbies lived over 70% of the Australian Mainland.

Greater bilbies are important in the restoration of soil and rejuvenation of vegetation in arid Australia. They use their strong front paws to dig deep holes in soil that enables plant material to fall in and decompose. ... With the decline of Australia's native wildlife, our ecosystem hangs in the balance.

Bilbies are omnivores, which means they eat a mixture of animals and plants. They have a varied diet, which includes: insects such as termites, spiders, other small animals such as lizards and worms, small mammals, fruit, bulbs, and seeds. Bilbies find their food by searching in the sand with their long snout