Painted Honeyeater

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Painted Honeyeater
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Grantiella
Mathews, 1911
Species: G. picta
Binomial name
Grantiella picta
(Gould, 1838)
Distribution of the Painted Honeyeater
Deeper Red Indicates Breeding Range

The Painted Honeyeater (Grantiella picta) is a species of honeyeater in a monotypic genus.

Distribution and habitat

Its core range is inland south-eastern Australia where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Important Bird Areas

BirdLife International has identified the following sites as being important for Painted Honeyeater conservation:[2]

New South Wales
Queensland
Victoria

Status and conservation

Painted Honeyeaters are threatened by habitat loss.

Australia

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

Victoria

  • The Painted Honeyeater is listed as threatened on the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (1988).[3] Under this Act, an Action Statement for the recovery and future management of this species has been prepared.[4]
  • On the 2007 advisory list of threatened vertebrate fauna in Victoria, the Painted Honeyater is listed as vulnerable.[5]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Grantiella picta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Painted Honeyeater". Important Bird Areas. BirdLife International. 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-27. 
  3. ↑ Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
  4. ↑ Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
  5. ↑ 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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