Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region
The Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region is a 510 km2 fragmented and irregularly shaped tract of land that encompasses all the box–ironbark forest and woodland remnants used as winter feeding habitat by endangered swift parrots in the Rushworth-Heathcote region of central Victoria, south-eastern Australia. It lies north of, and partly adjacent to, the Puckapunyal Important Bird Area (IBA).[1]
The site was identified by BirdLife International as an IBA and includes the Heathcote-Graytown National Park, several nature reserves and state forests, with a few small blocks of private land. It excludes other areas of woodland that are less suitable for the parrots.[1]
Birds[edit]
The region was identified as an IBA because, when the flowering conditions are suitable it supports up to about 70 non-breeding swift parrots. It is also home to small populations of diamond firetails and non-breeding flame robins.[2]
Other woodland birds recorded from the IBA include brown treecreepers, speckled warblers, hooded robins, grey-crowned babblers, crested bellbirds and Gilbert's whistlers, with bush stone-curlews, migrant black honeyeaters and pink robins seen occasionally.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-10-01.
- ^ "IBA: Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
36°44′57″S 144°54′22″E / 36.74917°S 144.90611°E
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