Solitary Islands Marine Park spp"), as well as sacred kingfishers ("Todiramphus sanctus"), are regularly seen in the estuaries. Around 30 species of marine mammals have been recorded in the region, including the Short-beaked common dolphin ("Delphinus delphis") and bottlenose dolphin ("Tursiops truncates") who are residents throughout the year. Of particular interest in the Marine Park and Reserve are those species listed as threatened and subject to national and international conventions. These mammals include humpback whales ("Megaptera novaeangliae"), who are commonly encountered in the area as they migrate north to their breeding grounds in June and July, and then again between September and November when
Buru (legendary creature) a large Komodo dragon-like monitor lizard, and there are fossils of such a creature to be found in the Indian subcontinent. Heuvelmans notes similar reported creatures from Western India under the name of "jhoors" where they seem to merge into the Iranian traditional dragon or ahi (Azi Dahaka), which in Iranian art is basically a local stylistic adaptation of the Chinese dragon. George Eberhart notes rumors of a similar creature in the Tigris marshes of Iraq, called the afa, possibly the same thing as ahi. Heuvelmans also notes in his checklist of unknown animals that similar reports to the buru