Threatened fauna Horsham Rural City

Note: This page is intended to provide an overview of all known (including historic) records of fauna in the Horsham Rural City which are considered threatened under the Victorian FFG Threatened List 2021. 

 

Victorian conservation status

 
EX Extinct 
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
Th Threatened

 

 

Common name

Scientific name

Conservation status

    Victorian FFG threatened list

Horsham Rural City – threatened birds

Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea VU  
Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus CR  
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis VU
Australian Bustard Ardeotis australis CR  
Australian Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus EN
Australian Pratincole Stiltia isabella -
Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea -
Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla -  
Barking Owl Ninox connivens CR  
Black Falcon Falco subniger CR
Black-chinned Honeyeater Melithreptus gularis -
Black-eared Cuckoo Chrysococcyx osculans -  
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis VU  
Brolga Grus rubicunda EN  
Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus victoriae -
Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius CR  
Caspian Tern Sterna caspia VU  
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Hylacola pyrrhopygia VU  
Chestnut Quail-thrush Cinclosoma castanotus -
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos VU
Crested Bellbird Oreoica gutturalis EN  
Diamond Dove Geopelia cuneata VU  
Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata VU  
Eastern Great Egret Ardea modesta VU  
Elegant Parrot Neophema elegans VU
Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa EN  
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum EN
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus -
Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis VU  
Grey Falcon Falco hypoleucos VU  
Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae EN  
Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica EN  
Hardhead Aythya australis VU
Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata VU  
Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii -  
Lewin's Rail Rallus pectoralis VU  
Little Button-quail Turnix velox -
Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides VU  
Little Egret Egretta garzetta nigripes EN  
Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata VU  
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo Cacatua leadbeateri CR  
Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata VU  
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae CR  
Musk Duck Biziura lobata VU
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus -
Painted Honeyeater Grantiella picta VU  
Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos -
Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius -
Plains-wanderer Pedionomus torquatus CR  
Plumed Egret Ardea intermedia plumifera CR  
Powerful Owl Ninox strenua VU  
Purple-gaped Honeyeater Lichenostomus cratitius VU  
Red-chested Button-quail Turnix pyrrhothorax EN  
Red-lored Whistler Pachycephala rufogularis VU  
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksi EN  
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia -
Rufous Fieldwren Calamanthus campestris -  
Speckled Warbler Chthonicola sagittata EN  
Slender-billed Thornbill Acanthiza iredalei EN
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis -
Spotted Quail-thrush Cinclosoma punctatum -  
Square-tailed Kite Lophoictinia isura VU  
Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor CR  
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus  
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster EN  
White-browed Treecreeper Climacteris affinis EN  
White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus EN  
       

Horsham Rural City – threatened mammals

Brush-tailed Phascogale Phascogale tapoatafa VU  
Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby Petrogale penicillata CR  
Eastern Pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus -  
Heath Mouse Pseudomys shortridgei EN  
Little Pygmy-possum Cercartetus lepidus -
Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus VU
Silky Mouse Pseudomys apodemoides -
Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus obesulus EN  
Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis VU  
Western Pygmy-possum Cercartetus concinnus -
White-footed Rabbit-rat Conilurus albipes EX
     

Horsham Rural City – threatened fishes

Freshwater Catfish Tandanus tandanus EN  
Golden Perch Macquaria ambigua -
Mountain Galaxias Galaxias olidus -  
Murray Cod Maccullochella peelii peelii EN  
Silver Perch Bidyanus bidyanus EN  
Yarra Pigmy Perch Nannoperca obscura VU  
       

Horsham Rural City – threatened reptiles & amphibians

Bardick Echiopsis curta EN  
Brown Toadlet Pseudophryne bibronii EN  
Eastern Bearded Dragon Pogona barbata VU
Eastern Snake-necked Turtle Chelodina longicollis -  
Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis VU  
Southern Toadlet Pseudophryne semimarmorata EN
Striped Legless Lizard Delma impar EN  
Striped Worm-Lizard Aprasia striolata EN
Tree Goanna (Lace Monitor) Varanus varius EN
Western Blue-tongued Lizard Tiliqua occipitalis -
Woodland Blind Snake Ramphotyphlops proximus -
     

Horsham Rural City – threatened invertebrates

Amethyst Hairstreak Butterfly Jalmenus icilius EN  
Bullant Myrmecia sp. 17 -  
Genoveva Blue Butterfly Ogyris genoveva EN  
Golden Rayed Blue Butterfly Candalides noelkeri EN  
Pale Sun Moth Synemon selene EN  
Western Bright-eyed Brown Butterfly Heteronympha cordace wilsoni CR  
White Yabby Cherax destructor albidus -  
Yellow Sedge-skipper Butterfly Hesperilla flavescens EN  

 

Note: - blank spaces indicate species previously on Advisory lists which have been reassessed as not threatened in Victoria.

Data Source: Information in this table has been derived from the Victorian Biodiversity Atlas (VBA), Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning, Victoria, 2021.  Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act Threatened List (FFG Threatened List,  June 2022). Advisory List of Threatened Invertebrate Fauna in Victoria (2009),  Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Advisory List of Threatened Vertebrate Fauna in Victoria (2013)  and Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning.

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