Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region

Swift parrot perched in eucalypt foliage
The region is important for swift parrots

The Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region includes all the box-ironbark forest and woodland remnants used as winter feeding habitat by swift parrots in the Maryborough-Dunolly region of central Victoria, south-eastern Australia. The 900 km2 region was identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) and includes several nature reserves, state parks and state forests, with only a few small blocks of private land. It excludes adjacent areas of woodland that are less suitable for the parrots.[1]

Birds

The region was identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because, when the flowering conditions are suitable it supports up to about 250 non-breeding swift parrots. It is also home to a small population of diamond firetails.[2] Other woodland birds recorded from the IBA include painted honeyeaters, brown treecreepers, speckled warblers, hooded robins, crested bellbirds and Gilbert's whistlers, with migrant black honeyeaters and pink robins seen occasionally.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 13/08/2011.
  2. ↑ "IBA: Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 2011-08-21.

Coordinates: 36°49′44″S 143°41′25″E / 36.82889°S 143.69028°E / -36.82889; 143.69028


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