 Many heath specialist birds are present in the heaths which include Lewin's honeyeater ("Meliphaga lewinii"), New Holland honeyeater ("Phylidonyris novaehollandiae"), beautiful firetail ("Stagonopleura bella"), chestnut-rumped heathwren ("Hylacola pyrrhopygia") and the southern emu-wren

In Royal National Park, littoral rainforest (often the first type of vegetation destroyed during coastal development) has survived the ravages that occurred elsewhere during the 19th and 20th centuries.An example of this vegetation occurs in the southern stretch of the Coast Walk, often referred to as the "Palm Jungle", and includes a typical tuckeroo ("Cupaniopsis anacardioides") forest, under grown by coastal tea tree ("Leptospermum laevigatum") and long-Leaf matrush ("Lomandra longifolia").Moving farther inland the terrain rises to a series of very rocky ridges and plateaus characterized by hardy, low-growing shrubs and very poor, rocky soil.