The Bilby is located in Queensland and the Northern Territory. It's Habitat is in desert areas in Australia with open woodland and grassland  which are suitable for digging. There are many types of Bilby. There is the Western Bilby, the Eastern Bilby and the normal Bilby.

The Bilby also can live in Western Australia. The Bilby only lives in Australia and nowhere else. Once the Bilby used to take over 70% of the mainland. The endangered Bilby retreated to the desert areas in central Australia. When cats, foxes and rabbits were introduced they claimed the Bilby's land. There used to be another much smaller Bilby species known as the Lesser Bilby called the Macotis leucura  from central Australia that has been presumed extinct since the 1930s. 

The Bilby has long rabbit ears which are finely furred and has a soft blue grey fur and has white fur on it's belly. It also has a long snout and a black and white tail. It has three clawed toes that are ideal for burrowing. Female Bilby has a backward opening pouch. The Bilby's closest relative is the bandicoot .

When a Bilby has a baby, it stays in her pouch for 80 days. 200 years ago in Australia there were millions of The Bilby but now there is only a few thousand that remain today. 

Diet:
A adult The Bilby diet is ants, termites, beetles, centipedes and grasshoppers. The Bilby eats insects, larvae, seeds, bulbs, fruit and fungi. The Bilby  becomes mature at  six months of age when they are old enough to search for food for themselves.    

• In April, 2001 six eastern Bilbies were relocated from Currawinya National Park. 
•  Twins were reported in the pouch of a female Bilby in May, 2001. 
• The remaining bilby  species has 2  extinct recognized sub species : the Western Bilby and the Macrotis lagotis living in Australia just 200 years ago. Only a few thousand remain to day.