What is the status of the regent honeyeater bird?
What is the status of the regent honeyeater bird?
critically endangered
Conservation status The regent honeyeater is listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, and was listed as endangered under both Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and Queensland’s Nature Conservation Act 1992.
Where are regent honeyeaters found?
south-east Australia
The Regent Honeyeater mainly inhabits temperate woodlands and open forests of the inland slopes of south-east Australia. Birds are also found in drier coastal woodlands and forests in some years.
How many regent honeyeaters are left in Australia?
Across Australia there are only about 800 to 1500 Regent Honeyeaters in the wild, with about 100 of these remaining in Victoria.
How many regent honeyeaters are left in the wild?
300 left
Regent honeyeaters are a striking bird, but there are only about 300 left in the wild and efforts are continuing to save the species from extinction.
Are Regent Honeyeaters endangered?
The regent honeyeater has recently been upgraded to Critically Endangered on the list of threatened species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The species is believed to have undergone a population decline of > 80% within three generations (Garnett et al., 2011).
Is the honeyeater endangered?
Not extinctHoneyeaters / Extinction status
How long have regent Honeyeaters been endangered?
The Regent Honeyeater has been in decline since the 1940s, and its soft, metallic chiming call is rarely heard. The few remaining honeyeaters live along the east coast of Australia. They are no longer found in south-western Victoria, and are probably extinct in South Australia.
Is the regent honeyeater native to Australia?
The regent honeyeater is endemic to mainland south-east Australia. It has a patchy distribution which extends from south-east Queensland, through New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), to central Victoria.
What are the predators of the regent honeyeater?
Recent reports of predation of Regent Honeyeater nests by Brush-tail Possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), Sugar (Petaurus brevipes) and Squirrel Gliders (Petaurus norfolcensis), Pied Currawongs (Strepera graculina), Australian Ravens (Corvus coronoides) and Pied Butcherbirds suggests nest predation by a range of species is …
