State Wide Integrated Flora and Fauna Teams

Threatened fauna Warrnambool City

Note: This page is intended to provide an overview of all known (including historic) records of fauna in the Warrnambool City which are considered threatened under the 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

Warrnambool City – threatened birds
Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus   CR  
Australian Little Bittern Ixobrychus dubius   EN  
Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula australis   CR  
Australasian Shoveler Anas rhynchotis   VU
Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla   -  
Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris   - (VU EPBC)
Black-faced Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens   -
Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa   CR
Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis   VU  
Caspian Tern Sterna caspia   VU  
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos   VU  
Eastern Great Egret Ardea alba modesta   VU  
Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa   EN  
Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum   EN
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus   -
Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae   EN  
Hardhead Aythya australis   VU
Hooded Plover Thinornis rubricollis   VU  
Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii   -  
Lewin's Rail Rallus pectoralis   VU  
Little Egret Egretta garzetta nigripes   EN  
Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata   VU  
Musk Duck Biziura lobata   VU
Nankeen Night Heron Nycticorax caledonicus   -
Orange-bellied Parrot Neophema chrysogaster   CR  
Pacific Gull Larus pacificus   -
Pied Cormorant Phalacrocorax varius   -
Plumed Egret Ardea intermedia plumifera   CR
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia   -
Sanderling Calidris alba   -
Shy Albatross Diomedea cauta   EN  
Spotted Harrier Circus assimilis   -
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus   -
White-bellied Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster   EN  
White-fronted Tern Sterna striata   -
       

Warrnambool City – threatened mammals
Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus   EN  
Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus   VU  
Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus   VU  
Southern Bent-wing Bat  Miniopterus orianae bassanii   CR  
Southern Humpback Whale Megatpera novaeangliae australis   CR  
Southern Right Whale Eubalaena australis   EN  
         

Warrnambool City – threatened fish
Golden Perch Macquaria ambigua   -
       

Warrnambool City – threatened reptiles & amphibians
Reptiles
        
Leathery Turtle Dermochelys coriacea   CR  
Swamp Skink Egernia coventryi   EN  
Amphibians
        
Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis   VU  
         

Warrnambool City - threatened invertebrates

  
         
Crustacea
        
Hairy Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus sericatus   VU  
Murray Spiny Crayfish Euastacus armatus   TH  

 

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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