Data from 'Atlas of Victorian Wildlife', Wildlife Management Branch, Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands (1989).
Summary of species from Herring Island area (N37 50, 537 50, W145 00, E145 00). Additional observations recorded between May and August, 1989 are denoted +.
Asterisks (*) denote exotic species.
Conservation status: 'State'= state significance (requires careful monitoring); 'Melbourne'= of significance in the Melbourne region.
| Common name | Species | Last recorded | Conservation Status /Comments |
| Silver gull | Larus novaehollandiae | 1989 | |
| Masked lapwing | Vanellus miles | 1989 | |
| White faced heron | Ardea novaehollandiae | 1989 | |
| Pacific black duck | Anas superciliosa | 1989 | |
| Brown goshawk | Accipter fasciatus | 1989 | |
| Australian hobby | Falco longipennis | 1989 | |
| Long-billed corella | Cacatua tenuirostris | 1989 | State. Requires monitoring |
| Eastern rosella | Platycercus eximius | 1979 | |
| Swift parrot | Lathamus discolor | 1989 | Melbourne |
| Welcome swallow | Hirundo neoxena | 1989 | |
| Willie wagtail | Rhipidura leucophrys | 1989 | |
| Australian magpie lark | Grallina cyanoleuea | 1989 | |
| Black-faced cuckoo shrike | Coracina novaehollandiae | 1989 | |
| White-browed scrubwren | Seriicornis frontalis | 1989 | |
| Mistletoebird | Dicaeum hirundinaceum | 1989 | |
| Silvereye | Zosterops lateralis | 1989 | |
| White-plumed honeyeater | Lichenostomus penicillatus | 1989 | |
| Little wattlebird | Aizthochaera chrysoptera | 1989 | |
| Red wattlebird | A.carunculata | 1989 | |
| Australian magpie | Gymnorhina tibicen | 1989 | |
| Little Raven | Corvus mellori | 1989 | |
| *Feral pigeon | Columiba livia | 1989 | |
| *Spotted turtle-dove | Streptopelia chinensis | 1989 | |
| *Common blackbird | Turdus merula | 1989 | |
| *House sparrow | Passer domesticus | 1989 | |
| *Common myna | Actidotheres tristis | 1989 | |
| *Common starling | Sturnus vulgalis | 1989 | |
| Platypus | Ornithorhynchus anatinus | 1948 | Unlikely to be present. |
| Short-beaked echidna | Tachyglossus aculeatuis | 1961 | Unlikely to be present. |
| Common brushtail possum | Trichosurus vulpecula | 1976, 1990+ | |
| Common ringtail possum | Pseudocheirus peregrinus | 1978, 1990+ | |
| Grey-headed flying fox | Pteropus peregrinus | 1985 | Melbourne |
| Lesser long-eared bat | Nyctophilus geoffroyi | 1965 | Melbourne |
| Gould's wattled bat | Chalinolobus gouldii | 1974 | Melbourne |
| *Black rat | Rattus rattus | 1977 | |
| *American grey squirrel | Sciuris carolinensis | 1925 | |
| *Fox | Vulpes vulpes | 1989 | |
| +Rufous night heron | Nycticorax caledonicus | 1989 | |
| + Egret | Egretta alba | 1989 |