State Wide Integrated Flora and Fauna Teams

Threatened fauna Hume City

Note: This page is intended to provide an overview of all known (including historic) records of fauna in the City of Hume 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

Hume City – threatened birds
Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus CR  
Australian Bustard Ardeotis australis CR  
Australian Pratincole Stiltia isabella -  
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis VU
Azure Kingfisher Alcedo azurea -
Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla palustris -  
Black-eared Cuckoo Chrysococcyx osculans -  
Black Falcon Falco subniger CR
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis VU  
Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus victoriae -
Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius CR  
Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia VU  
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia EN  
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos VU  
Crested Bellbird Oreoica gutturalis EN  
Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea CR  
Diamond Dove Geopelia cuneata VU  
Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata VU  
Eastern Great Egret Ardea modesta VU  
Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae -  
Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa EN  
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum EN  
Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis VU  
Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae novaehollandiae EN  
Hardhead Aythya australis VU
Hooded Robin Melanodryas cucullata VU  
Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii -  
Little Button-quail Turnix velox -  
Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides VU  
Little Egret Egretta garzetta nigripes EN  
Magpie Goose
Anseranas semipalmata
VU
Musk Duck Biziura lobata VU
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus -
Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius -
Plains-wanderer Pedionomus torquatus CR  
Red-chested Button-quail Turnix pyrrhothorax EN  
Plumed Egret Ardea intermedia plumifera CR  
Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne EN  
Regent Honeyeater Xanthomyza phrygia CR  
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia -
Sooty Oystercatcher Haematopus fuliginosus -  
Speckled Warbler Chthonicola sagittata EN  
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis -
Spotted Quail-thrush Cinclosoma punctatum -
Superb Parrot Polytelis swainsonii EN  
Swift Parrot Lathamus discolor CR  
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus -  
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster EN  
White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus VU
     

Hume City – threatened mammals
Brush-tailed Phascogale Phascogale tapoatafa VU  
Common Dunnart Sminthopsis murina VU
Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii EN  
Eastern Quoll Dasyurus viverrinus EN  
Fat-tailed Dunnart Sminthopsis crassicaudata VU  
Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus VU  
       

Hume City – threatened fish
Australian Grayling Prototroctes maraena EN  
Macquarie Perch Macquaria australasica EN  
       

Hume City – threatened reptiles & amphibians
Brown Toadlet Pseudophryne bibronii EN  
Eastern Snake-necked Turtle Chelodina longicollis -  
Grassland Earless Dragon Tympanocryptis pinguicolla CR  
Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis VU  
Murray River Turtle Emydura macquarii CR  
Southern Toadlet Pseudophryne semimarmorata EN  
Tussock Skink Pseudemoia pagenstecheri EN  
     

Hume City – threatened invertebrates
Amethyst Hairstreak Butterfly Jalmenus icilius EN  
Eltham Copper Butterfly Paralucia pyrodiscus lucida CR  
Golden Sun Moth Synemon plana VU  
Wide-Faced Darner Dragonfly Dendroaeschna conspersa -  

 

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 2023). 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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