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Threatened Animals in Pittwater
Amphibians
- Giant Burrowing Frog (Heleioporus australiacus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Red-crowned Toadlet (Pseudophryne australis) - Vulnerable - Known
Aquatic Invertebrates
- Adam's Emerald Dragonfly (Archaeophya adamsi) - Vulnerable - Known
- Giant Dragonfly - Endangered - Known
Bats
- Eastern Bentwing-bat (Miniopterus schreibersii oceanensis) Vulnerable - Known
- Eastern Freetail-bat (Mormopterus norfolkensis) - Vulnerable - Known
- Large-footed Myotis (Myotis adversus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Greater Broad-nosed Bat (Scoteanax rueppellii) - Vulnerable - Known
- Little Bent-winged Bat (Miniopterus australis) - Vulnerable - Known
- Large-eared PIed Bat (Chalinolobus dwyeri) - Vulnerable - Known
Birds
- Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius) - Endangered - Known
- Sanderling (Calidris alba) - Vulnerable - Known
- Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris) - Vulnerable - Known
- Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum) - Vulnerable - Known
- Glossy Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) - Vulnerable - Known
- Greater Sand-plover (Charadrius leschenaultii) - Vulnerable - Known
- Lesser Sand-plover (Charadrius mongolus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Eastern Bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus) - Endangered - Known
- Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Pied Oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris) - Vulnerable - Known
- Black Bittern (Ixobrychus flavicollis) - Vulnerable - Known
- Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) - Endangered - Known
- Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) - Vulnerable - Known
- Cotton Pygmy-goose (Nettapus coromandelianus) - Endangered - Known
- Barking Owl (Ninox connivens) - Vulnerable - Known
- Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua) - Vulnerable - Known
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Little Shearwater (Puffinus assimilis) - Vulnerable - Known
- Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes) - Vulnerable - Known
- Painted Snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) - Endangered - Known
- Little Tern (Sterna albifrons) - Endangered - Known
- Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae) - Vulnerable - Known
- Regent Honeyeater (Xanthomyza phrygia) - Endangered - Known
- Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus) - Vulnerable - Known
Endangered Populations
- Koala population in the Pittwater LGA (Phascolarctos cinereus) - Known
- Squirrel Glider Endangered Population on Barrenjoey Penninsula - Known
Marsupials
- Eastern Pygmy-possum (Cercartetus nanus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Spotted-tailed Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus) - Endangered - Known
- Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) - Vulnerable - Known
- Squirrel Glider - Vulnerable - Known
Reptiles
- Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) - Vulnerable - Known
- Leathery Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) - Vulnerable - Known
- Broad-headed Snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides) - Endangered - Known
- Rosenberg's Goanna (Varanus rosenbergi) - Vulnerable - Known
- Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) - Endangered - Predicted
Updated: 06 Dec 2011