THREATENED FAUNA

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THREATENED SPECIES OF NSW

The North-east of NSW is a highly diverse region which supports a huge variety of animals and plants of which over 370 species, populations and ecological communities are in decline or under threat of extinction, according to the NPWS.
The main reason for this being that it is a highly modified landscape which has been affected by human activity through urban & rural development, landclearing, forestry, fire/burning off, firewood collection, clearing of fallen branches, leaf litter and understorey plants from beneath trees, debris, alteration of natural flow regimes of rivers, streams floodplains & wetlands, pollution of creeks and the accumulation of agricultural herbicide and pesticide residues and the introduction of invasive plants including exotic vines, scramblers, lantana & pasture grasses.

Other Key Threatening processes include:

Bushrock removal, Beak & Feather disease in parrots, Chytrid in Frogs, Phytophthora infection in plants, Entanglement in fences/nets etc, Climate Change, grazing/invasion by ferral rabbits, goats, honeybees, canetoads, rats, cats & foxes,
The result being the loss of habitat which has put over 118 of our native animals species under etreme stress.
We are all now faced with saving these species from extinction.

Some of the actions we can undertake include:

Protect existing remaining rainforests and planting more endemic (local) plants including native fruit bearing trees as food trees, protect wetlands, woodlands and hollow bearing trees, retain large dead trees & fallen branches retention and enhancement of wildlife corridors, control and restrain dogs and cats, correct fire management, weed and pollution control,
revegetate the riparian zones adjacent to creek and drainage lines, feral animal control, avoid using pesticides and herbicides especially near watercourses, provide nestboxes in areas where natural tree hollows are scarce, exclude stock from creeks replace lawns with our beautiful native grasses-they are far prettier and lower in maintenance encourage and educate newcomers and your neighbours, family and friends to build farm friendly fencing.

MAMMALS
Koala	Image: Sharon McGrigor Video File By Sharon McGrigor

Black-striped Wallaby Macropus dorsalis	Image: Susanne Ulyatt Video File By Susanne Ulyatt
Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby Petrogale penicillata	Video file By Sharon McGrigor
Red-legged Pademelon Thylogale stigmatica	Image: Susanne Ulyatt Video file by Sue Ulyatt
Rufous Bettong Aepyprymnus rufescens	Image: Sharon McGrigor Video file by Sharon McGrigor& Kathy Grieveson
Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Spotted-tailed Quoll Dasyurus maculatus	Image by Debra Hobbs
Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis	Image: Katy Stewart Video file by Sharon McGrigor
Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis	To see image and read profile Click here
Eastern Pygmy Possum Cercartetus nanus	To see image and read profile Click here
Brush-tailed Phascogale Phascogale tapoatafa	Image: Katrina Ulyatt
Common Planigale Planigale maculata	Read profile click here
Eastern Chestnut Mouse Pseudomys gracilicaudatus	Read profile click here Image click here
Hastings River Mouse Pseudomys oralis	To see image and read profile Click here
Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat Lasiorhinus krefftii	Image: Alicia Carter Video File by Sharon McGrigor read profile click here
REPTILES
Green Turtle Chelonia mydas	To see image and read profile click here
Leathery Turtle Dermochelys coriacea	To see image and read profile click here
Loggerhead Turtle Caretta caretta	To see image and read profile click here
Pale-headed Snake Hoplocephalus bitorquatus	To see image and read profile click here
Stephens' Banded Snake Hoplocephalus stephensii	Image: Susanne Ulyatt To read profile click here
Three-toed Snake-tooth Skink Coeranoscincus reticulatus	To see image and read profile Click here
White-crowned Snake Cacophis harriettae	To see image and read profile Click here
AMPHIBIANS
Booroolong Frog Litoria booroolongensis	To see image and read profile Click here
Fleay's Barred Frog Mixophyes fleayi	Image: Susanne Ulyatt Read profile click here
Glandular Frog Litoria subglandulosa	To see image and read profile Click here
Green & Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea	To see image and read profile Click here
Green-thighed Frog Litoria brevipalmata	To see image and read profile Click here
Loveridge's Frog Philoria loveridgei	To see image and read profile Click here
Mountain Frog Philoria kundagungan	To see image and read profile Click here
Olongburra Frog Litoria olongburensis	To see image and read profile Click here
Pouched Frog Assa darlingtoni	To see image and read profile Click here
Sphagnum Frog Philoria sphagnicolus	To see image and read profile Click here
Stuttering Frog Mixophyes balbus	To see image and read profile Click here
Wallum Froglet Crinia tinnula	To see image and read profile Click here
BUSHLAND BIRDS
Albert's Lyrebird Menura alberti	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Barking Owl Ninox connivens	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Barred Cuckoo-shrike Coracina lineata	To see image and read profile Click here
Black-breasted Button-quail Turnix melanogaster	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius	Image: Melanie Barsony Profile click here
Collared Kingfisher Todiramphus chloris	Image: Alicia Carter To read profile, click here
Double-eyed Fig-parrot Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni	To see image and read profile Click here
Eastern Bristlebird Dasyornis brachypterus	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Glossy Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Grass Owl Tyto capensis	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Ground Parrot Pezoporus wallicus wallicus	To see image and read profile Click here
Little Eagle	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Little Lorikeet	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Major Mitchell Cockatoo	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Mangrove Honeyeater Lichenostomus fasciogularis	To see image and read profile Click here More images click here
Marbled Frogmouth Podargus ocellatus	To see image and read profile Click here
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Powerful Owl Ninox strenua	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Purple-crowned Lorikeet	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Red Goshawk Erythrotriorchis radiatus	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksii	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Regent Parrot	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Rose-crowned Fruit-dove Ptilinopus regina	Image by Sharon McGrigor Read profile Click here
Rufous Scrub-bird Atrichornis rufescens	Read profile Click here
Sooty Owl Tyto tenebricosa	To see image and read profile Click here
Square-tailed Kite Lophoictinia isura	To see image and read profile Click here
Squatter Pigeon	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Superb Fruit-dove Ptilinopus superbus	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Superb Parrot	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor	To see image and read profile Click here
Turquoise Parrot Neophema pulchella	Image by Sharon McGrigor
White-eared Monarch Monarcha leucotis	To read profile Click here
Wompoo Fruit-dove Ptilinopus magnificus	Image: Sue Ulyatt To read profile Click here
SHORE & OCEAN BIRDS
Beach Stone-curlew Esacus neglectus	To see image and read profile Click here Image by Sharon McGrigor
Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris	To see image and read profile Click here
Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa	To see image and read profile Click here More images Click here
Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus	To see image and read profile Click here
Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris	To see image and read profile Click here
Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii	To see image and read profile Click here
Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius mongolus	To see image and read profile Click here
Little Tern Sterna albifrons	To see image and read profile Click here
Osprey Pandion haliaetus	Image: Alicia Carter
Pied Oystercatcher Haematopus longirostris	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Sanderling Calidris alba	To see image and read profile Click here
Sooty Oystercatcher Haematopus fuliginosus	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus	To see image and read profile Click here
WETLAND BIRDS
Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus	To see image and read profile Click here
Black Bittern Ixobrychus flavicollis	To see image and read profile Click here More images click here
Black-necked Stork (Jabiru) Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus	Image: Sharon McGrigor Video File by Sharon McGrigor
Brolga Grus rubicunda	Image:Sharon McGrigor To read profile Click here
Bush-hen Amaurornis olivaceus	To read profile Click here Image Julie Reid
Comb-crested Jacana Irediparra gallinacea	Image by Sharon McGrigor
Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata	Image: Sharon McGrigor Read profile Click here
Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis	To see image and read profile Click here
BATS
Beccari's Freetail-bat Mormopterus beccarii	To see image and read profile:Click here
Black Flying Fox Pteropus alecto	To see image and read profile:Click here
Common Bentwing-bat Miniopterus schreibersii	Image: Lib Ruytenberg To read profile click here
Common Blossom-bat Syconycteris australis	To see image and read profile Click here
Eastern Cave Bat Vespadelus troughtoni	To see image and read profile click here
Eastern False Pipistrelle Falsistrellus tasmaniensis	To see image and read profile Click here
Eastern Freetail-bat Mormopterus norfolkensis	To see image and read profile Click here
Eastern Long-eared Bat Nyctophilus bifax	To see image and read profile Click here
Eastern Tube-nosed Bat	To see image and read profile Click here
Golden-tipped Bat Kerivoula papuensis	To see image and read profile Click here
Greater Broad-nosed Bat Scoteanax rueppellii	To see image and read profile Click here
Grey-headed Flying Fox Pteropus poliocephalus	Image: Sharon McGrigor Read profile Click here
Hoary Wattled Bat Chalinolobus nigrogriseus	To see image and read profile Click here
Large-eared Pied Bat Chalinolobus dwyeri	To see image and read profile Click here
Large-footed Myotis Myotis adversus	To see image and read profile Click here
Little Bentwing-bat Miniopterus australis	To see image and read profile Click here
Yellow-bellied Sheathtail-bat Saccolaimus flaviventris	To see image and read profile Click here
INVERTEBRATES
Giant Dragonfly Petalura gigantea	To read profile and see image click here
Mitchell's Rainforest Snail Thersites mitchellae	To read profile click here To see image click here
Nurus atlas Nurus atlas	To read profile and see image click here
Nurus brevis Nurus brevis	To read profile and see image click here

Updated March 2021

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