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Threatened Fauna Species List
Below is the list of Threatened Species identified in Appendix 2 of the Native Fauna Management Plan for the Pittwater Local Government Area. Parts 5,6 and 7 in Appendix Two can be viewed in the full document. They include Preliminary Determinations, Threatened Fish and Marine Invertebrates and species only listed on the EPBC Act.
The full appendix can be downloaded here.
Endangered Populations
Critically Endangered Species
Endangered Species
- Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus)
- Broad-headed Snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides)
- Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius)
- Cotton Pygmy Goose (Nettapus coromandelianus)
- Giant Dragonfly (Petalura gigantean)
- Green and Golden Bell Frog (Litoria aurea)
- Little Tern (Sterna albifons)
- Marine Species (Dugong, Loggerhead Turtle, Southern Giant Petrel, Wandering Albatross)
- Painted Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis australis)
- Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris)
- Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obsesulus)
- Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor)
Vulnerable Species
- Barking Owl (Ninox connivens)
- Black-chinned Honeyeater (eastern subspecies) (Melithreptus gularis gularis)
- Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
- Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis)
- Broad-billed Sandpiper (Limicola falcinellus)
- Eastern Bent-wing Bat (Miniopterus shreibersii oceanensis)
- Eastern Cave Bat (Vespadelus troughtoni)
- Eastern False Pipistrelle (Falsistrellus tasmaniensis)
- Eastern Freetail Bat (Mormopterus norfolkensis)
- Eastern Ground Parrot (Pexoporus wallicus wallicus)
- Eastern Pygmy-possum (Cercartetus nanus)
- Flame Robin (Petroica phoenicea)
- Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes)
- Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbratum)
- Giant Burrowing Frog (Heleioporus austaliacus)
- Glossy Black-cockatoo (Calyptohynchus lathami)
- Grass Owl (Tyto capensis)
- Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris)
- Greater Broad-nosed Bat (Scoteanax rueppellii)
- Greater Sand-plover (Charadrius leschenaultia)
- Green-thighed Frog (Litoria brevipalmata)
- Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
- Large-eared Pied Bat (Chalinolobus dwyeri)
- Lesser Sand-plover (Charadrius mongolus)
- Little Bent-wing Bat (Minopterus australis)
- Little Eagle (Hieraaetus morphnoides)
- Little Lorikeet (Glossopsitta pusilla)
- Little Shearwater (Puffinus assimilis)
- Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae)
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua)
- Red-crowned Toadlet (Pseudophryne australis)
- Rosenberg's Goanna (Varanus rosenbergi)
- Rose-crowned Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus regina)
- Sanderling (Calidris alba)
- Scarlet Robin (Petroica boodang)
- Sooty Owl (Tyto tenebricosa)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus)
- Southern Myotis (Myotis macropus)
- Spotted Harrier (Circus assimilis)
- Spotted-tailed Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus)
- Square-tailed Kite (Lophoictinia isura)
- Superb Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus superbus)
- Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus)
- Turquoise Parrot (Neophema pulchella)
- Varied Sittella (Daphoenositta chrysoptera)
- Wallum Froglet (Crinia tinula)
- Marine Species (Australian Fur-seal, Black-browed Albatross, Shy Albatross, Sooty Tern, Gould's Petrel, Southern Right Whale, Humpback Whale, Green Turtle, Leathery Turtle)
Updated: 22 Dec 2011