Vinticulture is most prevalent in the red soil area of the north-east. However, vinyard owners so jealously guard their grapes with netting, that few birds can make a living there. Various honey eaters can also be found in abundance, and in the spring the largest of these, the yellow wattle bird, is an extremely noisy presence. Hooded plovers frequently prowl cricket ovals after a rain. Rock doves inhabit the downtown, and the starling, European black bird, and house sparrow are also common introduced species.
Kookaburras are also in town.
Silver gulls abound along the shoreline and fly over West Hobart in vast numbers at dawn and dusk on their way to and from the garbage dump for their daily feed. In and immediately around the City of Hobart, there are representatives of each of the previously mentioned habitats except rain forests. The dry pasture land is to be found just east of town, to the north of the airport. And of course magpies carol throughout the district. The dry schlerophyl forest spreads east from the airport to the Tasman pennisula, and north of Richmond as well.