Speckled warbler

Speckled warbler
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Subfamily: Acanthizinae
Genus: Pyrrholaemus
Species: P. sagittatus
Binomial name
Pyrrholaemus sagittatus
(Latham, 1801)
Synonyms
  • Chthonicola sagittatus
Not to be confused with the Spectacled warbler.

The speckled warbler (Pyrrholaemus sagittatus) is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

Conservation status

International

On the IUCN Red List, the speckled warbler was uplisted from near threatened to least concern status in 2000; having turned out to be more common than previously believed, but was downlisted to near threatened again in the 2007 IUCN Red List.[1]

Australia

Speckled warbler are not listed as threatened on the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

State of New South Wales, Australia

The speckled warbler is listed as "vulnerable" under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act.

State of Victoria, Australia

SE Queensland, Australia


Footnotes

  1. See BirdLife International (2007a,b).
  2. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
  3. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
  4. Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (2007). Advisory List of Threatened Vertebrate Fauna in Victoria - 2007. East Melbourne, Victoria: Department of Sustainability and Environment. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-74208-039-0.

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