Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region

The Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region includes all the box-ironbark forest and woodland remnants used as winter feeding habitat by swift parrots in the Maryborough-Dunolly region of central Victoria, south-eastern Australia. The 900 km2 region was identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) and includes several nature reserves, state parks and state forests, with only a few small blocks of private land. It excludes adjacent areas of woodland that are less suitable for the parrots.[1]

Swift parrot perched in eucalypt foliage
The region is important for swift parrots

Birds

The region was identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because, when the flowering conditions are suitable it supports up to about 250 non-breeding swift parrots. It is also home to a small population of diamond firetails.[2] Other woodland birds recorded from the IBA include painted honeyeaters, brown treecreepers, speckled warblers, hooded robins, crested bellbirds and Gilbert's whistlers, with migrant black honeyeaters and pink robins seen occasionally.[1]

References
  1. BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 13/08/2011.
  2. "IBA: Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.

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