Chestnut-rumped Heathwren

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Chestnut-rumped Heathwren
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Pardalotidae Genus: Hylacola Species: H. pyrrhopygia
Binomial name
Hylacola pyrrhopygia (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)

The Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (Hylacola pyrrhopygia) is a species of bird in the Pardalotidae family. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Contents 1 Conservation status 1.1 Australia 1.2 Victoria 2 Source

[edit] Conservation status

[edit] Australia

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren are not listed as threatened on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

[edit] Victoria

• A subspecies of the Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (C. p. pyrrhopygius) listed as threatened on the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (1988).^[1] Under this Act, an Action Statement for the recovery and future management of this species has not been prepared.^[2]
• On the 2007 advisory list of threatened vertebrate fauna in Victoria, this species is listed as vulnerable.^[3]

[edit] Source

1. ^ Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
2. ^ Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
3. ^ Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (2007). Advisory List of Threatened Vertebrate Fauna in Victoria - 2007. East Melbourne, Victoria: Department of Sustainability and Environment, 15. ISBN 978-1-74208-039-0. 

• BirdLife International 2004. Hylacola pyrrhopygia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.