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Victorian Status Conservation Victorian foxes. See inside this brochure for ways to help conserve help to ways birds. these woodland for See inside this brochure foxes. regeneration, competition from aggressive species and predation by cats and by and predation species aggressive competition from regeneration, are declining due to historical habitat habitat, lack of of clearing due to declining and fragmentation are one in five woodland bird species in Australia are now threatened. These species These threatened. now are in Australia species bird woodland five one in Victoria’s woodlands are renowned for their rich and varied bird life. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, rich their life. and varied bird for renowned are woodlands Victoria’s An Identi cation and Conservation Guide and Conservation Identi cation An Woodland Birds Woodland Declining woodland bird community You can help Victoria’s woodlands are renowned for their rich and varied bird life. To help conserve Victoria’s woodland birds you can: Unfortunately one in five woodland bird species in Australia are now • Participate in survey and monitoring events such as the twice annual threatened. The most rapidly declining species are those that rely on mature Regent Honeyeater and Swift Parrot Survey weekends and the annual trees (especially hollow-bearing trees) and those that forage, nest or live on Lurg Woodland Bird Survey. the ground. Under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (1988), the Victorian • Submit records of birds you have seen (especially rare or threatened Temperate Woodland Bird Community is listed as a threatened ecological species) to databases such as the Victorian Biodiversity Atlas (Department community. Twenty-two of the twenty-four species from that community are of Sustainability and Environment) or the Atlas of Australian Birds (Birds found in North East Victoria and are shown in this brochure. Australia). Why are woodland bird numbers declining? • Join a local community group such as Field Naturalists, Environment, Friends of, or Landcare. Red Wattlebird Black-chinned Honeyeater Restless Flycatcher White-winged Triller Grey Shrike-thrush Dusky Woodswallow Hooded Robin (male) Hooded Robin (female) Anthochaera carunculata 35 (CT) Melithreptus gularis NT 15 (DI) Myiagra inquieta 20 (DI) Lalage sueurii 18 (CT) Colluricincla harmonica 24 (CT) Artamus cyanopterus 18 (DI) Melanodryas cucullata NT 16 (CT) Melanodryas cucullata NT 16 (DI) • Historical clearing and fragmentation impacts • Be a responsible pet owner and confine your pets. Wandering cats are * * * Since European settlement over 80% of woodlands in south-east major predators of native birds. Australia have been cleared. Remaining remnants are generally isolated Tips for Land holders / Land managers of woodland patches: and small, and often below the critical size needed to sustain healthy populations of many bird species. • Protect and expand existing remnants – the bigger the better. • Protect the best bits rst such as diverse native habitats or streamside vegetation. • Enter Conservation Covenant agreements to provide permanent protection. • Fence patches to permanently exclude stock or allow infrequent pulse grazing to manage exotic grass/weed levels. Aim to achieve native tree, shrub and ground cover regeneration. • Control weeds: Replace woody weeds with native shrubs to provide important small bird habitat. Reduce other high threat invasive species. Natural regeneration with a diversity of habitats provides • Restore: Plant seedlings of key native tree, shrub and groundcover Brown-headed Honeyeater Noisy Friarbird Crested Shrike-tit (male) Crested Shrike-tit (female) Scarlet Robin (male) Scarlet Robin (female) Jacky Winter Red-browed important refuge for woodland birds (GJ) species to enhance diversity and re-create understorey structure Melithreptus brevirostris 13 (DI) Philemon corniculatus 33 (CT) Falcunculus frontatus 18 (DI) Falcunculus frontatus 18 (DI) Petroica boodang 13 (CT) Petroica boodang 13 (DI) Microeca fascinans 13 (CT) Neochmia temporalis 12 (CT) * * • Lack of habitat regeneration • Retain important habitat features such as fallen timber, dead trees Native tree and shrub seedlings and grassy woodland groundcover (especially those with crevices or hollows) and rocky outcrops. species are highly susceptible to domestic stock grazing (and in some • Control pests and predators especially rabbits, cats and foxes (where instances kangaroo browsing pressure). Many woodland remnants in possible). poor condition lack native plant diversity and therefore have low habitat • Gain further knowledge & ideas: Refer to further information and value for woodland birds. contacts on the back of this brochure. • Competition The Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala) is a native species that often aggressively excludes other small woodland birds from remnants they occupy. Unfortunately, Noisy Miners have benefited from landscape-scale clearing and fragmentation. They typically dominate open Eucalypt woodland remnants on farms, in tree corridors and clumps of paddock trees - especially those lacking a shrubby understorey. Little Friarbird Varied Sittella Rufous Whistler (male) Rufous Whistler (female) Red-capped Robin (male) Red-capped Robin (female) Mistletoebird (male) Mistletoebird (female) The Indian (or Common) Myna (Acridotheres tristis) is an exotic pest Philemon citreogularis 27 (DI) Daphoenositta chrysoptera 11 (CT) ru ventris 17 (DI) Pachycephala ru ventris 17 (DI) Petroica goodenovii * 12 (CT) Petroica goodenovii * 12 (DI) Dicaeum hirundinaceum 11 (DI) Dicaeum hirundinaceum 11 (CT) species that also displaces native species, especially in built-up areas.

Brush-tailed Phascogale Squirrel Glider Phascogale tapoatafa VU (CT) Petaurus norfolcensis EN (GJ)

Noisy Miner Indian Myna Revegetation efforts for woodland bird conservation should be targeted Manorina melanocephala 26 (CT) Acridotheres tristis 24 (CT) at increasing the size and quality of existing remnants and creating or

widening wildlife corridors wherever possible. This not only benefits the bird Grey-crowned Babbler White-browed Babbler Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike Flame Robin (male) Flame Robin (female) White-winged Chough Apostlebird • Predation community but many other species, such as the threatened Brush-tailed Pomatostomus temporalis EN L 27 (DI) Pomatostomus superciliosus 20 (CT) Coracina novaehollandiae 33 (CT) Coracina papuensis 27 (DI) Petroica phoenicea 14 (CT) Petroica phoenicea 14 (DI) Corcorax melanorhamphos 45 (CT) Struthidea cinerea 31 (CT) Woodland bird species that nest or forage on the ground are particularly Phascogale and Squirrel Glider that rely on habitat connectivity to move * vulnerable to predation by cats and foxes. throughout the landscape.