Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region
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The Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region is a 505 km2 fragmented and irregularly shaped tract of land that encompasses all the box-ironbark forest and woodland remnants used as winter feeding habitat by swift parrots in the Bendigo-Maldon region of central Victoria, south-eastern Australia.
Description
The site lies between the Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region and Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region Important Bird Area (IBAs). It includes much of the Greater Bendigo National Park, several nature reserves and state forests, with a few small blocks of private land. It excludes other areas of woodland that are less suitable for the parrots.BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region. Downloaded from {{cite web |url=http://www.birdlife.org |title=BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds |access-date=2013-09-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710124603/http://www.birdlife.org/ |archive-date=2007-07-10 }} on 2011-10-23.
Birds
The region was identified as an IBA because, when flowering conditions are suitable it supports up to 1100 non-breeding swift parrots. It is also home to small populations of diamond firetails and non-breeding flame robins.{{cite web |url=http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |title=IBA: Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region |accessdate=2011-10-23 |work=Birdata |first= |last= |publisher=Birds Australia |date= |archive-date=6 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706102341/http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |url-status=dead }} Other declining woodland birds recorded from the IBA include brown treecreepers, speckled warblers, grey-crowned babblers, Gilbert's whistlers, hooded and pink robins, crested bellbirds and black honeyeaters.
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Category:Important Bird Areas of Victoria (state)
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