State Wide Integrated Flora and Fauna Teams

Threatened fauna Melton City

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

Melton City – threatened birds
Australasian Bittern   Botaurus poiciloptilus CR  
Australian Painted Snipe   Rostratula benghalensis CR  
Australian Pratincole   Stiltia isabella -  
Australasian Shoveler   Anas rhynchotis VU
Azure Kingfisher   Alcedo azurea -
Baillon’s Crake   Porzana pusilla -  
Barking Owl   Ninox connivens CR  
Black Falcon   Falco subniger CR
Black-eared Cuckoo   Chrysococcyx osculans -
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  
Common Greenshank   Tringa nebularia EN  
Common Sandpiper   Actitis hypoleucos VU  
Crested Bellbird   Oreoica gutturalis EN  
Curlew Sandpiper   Calidris ferruginea CR  
Diamond Firetail   Stagonopleura guttata VU  
Eastern Great Egret   Ardea modesta VU  
Freckled Duck   Stictonetta naevosa EN  
Grey-crowned Babbler   Pomatostomus temporalis temporalis VU  
Grey Goshawk   Accipiter novaehollandiae EN  
Hardhead   Aythya australis VU
Hooded Robin   Melanodryas cucullata VU  
Latham's Snipe   Gallinago hardwickii -  
Little Eagle   Hieraaetus morphnoides VU  
Lewin's Rail   Rallus pectoralis VU  
Little Button-quail   Turnix velox -  
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo   Lophocroa leadbeateri CR  
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  
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  
Red-backed Kingfisher   Todiramphus pyrropygia pyrropygia -  
Red-chested Button-quail   Turnix pyrrhothorax EN  
Regent Honeyeater   Anthochaera phrygia CR  
Royal Spoonbill   Platalea regia -
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  
         

Melton City – threatened mammals
Brush-tailed Phascogale   Phascogale tapoatafa VU  
Eastern Pygmy-possum   Cercartetus nanus -
Fat-tailed Dunnart   Sminthopsis crassicaudata VU
Platypus   Ornithorhynchus anatinus VU  
Spot-tailed Quoll   Dasyurus maculatus EN  
         

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

Melton City – threatened reptiles & amphibians
Brown Toadlet   Pseudophryne bibronii EN  
Eastern Snake-necked Turtle   Chelodina longicollis -  
Eastern Bearded Dragon   Pogona barbata VU  
Growling Grass Frog   Litoria raniformis VU  
Murray River Turtle   Emydura macquarii CR  
Striped Legless Lizard   Delma impar EN  
Tussock Skink   Pseudemoia pagenstecheri EN
       

Melton City – threatened invertebrates
Bullant   Myrmecia sp. 17 -  
Genoveva Blue Butterfly   Ogyris genoveva EN  
Golden Sun Moth   Synemon plana VU  

 

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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