| RED-NECKED WALLABY Macropus rufogriseus | |
| STATUS: Unknown | |
 Dave Mallon |
The well-known feral population on the moors of the Staffordshire Peak District became established around 1940. Some of these animals occasionally wandered north and northwest across the Peak District with Derbyshire records from the Goyt Valley (1940), Hindlow and Harpur Hill Quarries (1951), Barmoor Clough near Chapel-en-le-Frith (1944), Burbage (1954), Yorkshire Bridge, Ladybower, (1955), and Chapel-en-le-Frith again (1956) (Yalden & Hosey 1971). Forestry workers in the Goyt Valley reported occasional sightings in the early 1960s. A wallaby killed on a railway line near Ashover in 1963 or 1964 probably originated from another collection (Yalden & Hosey 1971). Escapes from a small private collection in the Holloway area in the 1990s were seen locally for a short time. |