Speckled Warbler

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Speckled Warbler
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pardalotidae
Subfamily: Acanthizinae
Genus: Chthonicola
Species: C. sagittatus
Binomial name
Chthonicola sagittatus
(Latham, 1801)

The Speckled Warbler (Chthonicola sagittatus) is a species of bird in the family Pardalotidae, where it belongs to the monotypic genus Chthonicola. It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.

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[edit] Conservation Status

[edit] International

On the IUCN Red List, the Speckled Warbler was uplisted from Least Concern to Near Threatened status in 2000; having turned out to be more common than previously believed, but was downlisted to Least Concern again in the 2007 IUCN Red List.[1]

[edit] Australia

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

[edit] State of Victoria, Australia

  • The Speckled Warbler is listed as threatened on the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (1988).[2] Under this Act, an Action Statement for the recovery and future management of this species has not been prepared.[3]
  • On the 2007 advisory list of threatened vertebrate fauna in Victoria, the Speckled Warbler is listed as vulnerable.[4]

[edit] 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, 15. ISBN 978-1-74208-039-0. 

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