State Wide Integrated Flora and Fauna Teams

Threatened fauna Wyndham City

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

 

Victorian conservation status
 
EX Extinct
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
Th Near Threatened

 

Common name

Scientific name

  

Conservation status
      Victorian FFG threatened list

Wyndham City – threatened birds
Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus   CR  
Australian Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus   EN  
Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis   CR  
Australian Pratincole Stiltia isabella   -  
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis   VU
Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla   -  
Barking Owl Ninox connivens   CR  
Black Falcon Falco subniger   CR
Black-eared Cuckoo Chrysococcyx osculans   -
Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens   -
Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa   CR
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis   VU  
Brolga Grus rubicunda   EN  
Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus victoriae   -
Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallariu   CR  
Caspian Tern Sterna caspia   VU  
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Hylacola pyrrhopygia   VU  
Common Diving-Petrel Pelecanoides urinatrix   -
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia   EN
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos   VU
Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea   CR  
Diamond Dove Geopelia cuneata   VU  
Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata   VU  
Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis   CR  
Eastern Great Egret Ardea modesta   VU  
Elegant Parrot Neophema elegans   VU
Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae   -
Fairy Prion Pachyptila turtur   -
Fairy Tern Sterna nereis   CR  
Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa   EN  
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum   EN
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus   -
Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris   CR  
Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii   VU  
Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae   EN  
Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola   VU
Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis   VU  
Grey-tailed Tattler Heteroscelus brevipes   CR  
Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica   EN  
Hardhead Aythya australis   VU
Hooded Plover Thinornis rubricollis   VU  
Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata   VU  
Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii   -  
Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius mongolus   VU
Lewin's Rail Rallus pectoralis   VU  
Little Button-quail Turnix velox   -  
Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides   VU  
Little Egret Egretta garzetta nigripes   EN  
Little Tern Sterna albifrons   CR  
Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta   -  
Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata   VU  
Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis   EN  
Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae   CR  
Musk Duck Biziura lobata   VU
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus   -
Orange-bellied Parrot Neophema chrysogaster   CR  
Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fuva   VU
Pacific Gull Larus pacificus   -
Painted Honeyeater Grantiella picta   VU  
Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos   -
Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius   -
Plains-wanderer Pedionomus torquatus   CR  
Plumed Egret Ardea intermedia plumifera   CR  
Red-backed Kingfisher Todiramphus pyrropygia pyrropygia   -  
Red-chested Button-quail Turnix pyrrhothorax   EN  
Red Knot Calidris canutus   EN
Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia   CR  
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia   -
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres   EN
Sanderling Calidris alba   -
Sooty Oystercatcher Haematopus fuliginosus   -
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis   -
Superb Parrot Polytelis swainsonii   EN  
Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor   CR  
Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus   EN  
Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus   EN
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus   -
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster   EN  
White-faced Storm-Petrel Pelagodroma marina   EN
White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus   VU
White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias leucopterus   -
Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola   EN
         

Wyndham City – threatened mammals
Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii   EN  
Eastern Bent-winged Bat Miniopterus orianae oceanensis   CR
Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata   VU
Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus   VU  
Southern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon obesulus obesulus   EN  
Southern Myotis (bat) Myotis macropus   -
         

Wyndham City – threatened fishes
Freshwater Catfish Tandanus tandanus   EN  
         

Wyndham City – threatened reptiles & amphibians
Brown Toadlet Pseudophryne bibronii   EN  
Common Long-necked Turtle Chelodina longicollis   -  
Grassland Earless Dragon Tympanocryptis pinguicolla   CR  
Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis   VU  
Murray River Turtle Emydura macquarii   CR  
Striped Legless Lizard Delma impar   EN  
Tussock Skink Pseudemoia pagenstecheri   EN  
         

Wyndham City – threatened invertebrates
Golden Sun Moth Synemon plana   VU  
Yellow Sedge-skipper Butterfly Hesperilla flavescens 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 Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA), Victoria, 2023.  Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 - Threatened List - June 2023  Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA), Victoria.  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) Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning 2013.

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