Speckled warbler

Speckled warbler
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
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 eastern 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

• 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]

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. 

References

• BirdLife International (2004). "Pyrrholaemus sagittatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2006. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 25 July 2007. 
• BirdLife International (2007a): [ 2006-2007 Red List status changes ]. Retrieved 2007-AUG-26.
• BirdLife International (2007b): Speckled warbler - BirdLife Species Factsheet. Retrieved 2007-AUG-28.
• Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-84-96553-42-2