Piccaninny Plains Sanctuary

Piccaninny Plains Wildlife Sanctuary is a 1700 km2 nature reserve on the Cape York Peninsula of Far North Queensland, Australia.

A former cattle station adjacent to Oyala Thumotang National Park, it is managed by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC).

It is jointly owned by The Tony and Lisette Lewis Foundation and the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, by which it was purchased in 2008.

The climate is tropical monsoonal, with most rain falling in the wet season, December to April.

[1] Animals found on Piccaninny Plains include the palm cockatoo, trumpet manucode, yellow-billed kingfisher, magnificent riflebird and spotted cuscus.