Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region

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Swift Parrot perched in eucalypt foliage
The region is important for Swift Parrots

The Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region is a 505 km2 fragmented and irregularly shaped tract of land that encompasses all the Box-Ironbark forest and woodland remnants used as winter feeding habitat by Swift Parrots in the Bendigo-Maldon region of central Victoria, south-eastern Australia.

Description

The site lies between the Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region and Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region IBAs. It includes much of the Greater Bendigo 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

The region was identified as an Important Bird Area. (IBA) because, when flowering conditions are suitable it supports up to 1100 non-breeding Swift Parrots. It is also home to small populations of Diamond Firetails and non-breeding Flame Robins.[2] Other declining woodland birds recorded from the IBA include Brown Treecreepers, Speckled Warblers, Grey-crowned Babblers, Gilbert's Whistlers, Hooded and Pink Robins, Crested Bellbirds and Black Honeyeaters.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-10-23.
  2. ↑ "IBA: Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 2011-10-23. 

Coordinates: 36°47′13″S 144°16′53″E / 36.78694°S 144.28139°E / -36.78694; 144.28139


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