The St Arnaud Box-Ironbark Region is a fragmented and irregularly shaped tract of land that encompasses all the box-ironbark forest and woodland remnants used as winter feeding habitat by swift parrots in the St Arnaud-Stawell region of central Victoria, south-eastern Australia.
Description The site lies west of the Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region Important Bird Area (IBA). It includes the St Arnaud Range National Park, several nature reserves and state forests, with a few small blocks of private land. It excludes other areas of woodland that are less suitable for the parrots.BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: St Arnaud Box-Ironbark Region. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-10-22.
Birds The region was identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because, when flowering conditions are suitable it supports up to about 75 non-breeding swift parrots. It is also home to small populations of diamond firetails and non-breeding flame robins. Other declining woodland birds recorded from the IBA include brown treecreepers, speckled warblers, hooded and pink robins, crested bellbirds and black honeyeaters.
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