Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region

The region is important for swift parrots

The Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region includes all the box-ironbark forest and woodland remnants used as winter feeding habitat by swift parrots in the Maryborough-Dunolly region of central Victoria, south-eastern Australia. The 900 km2 region was identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) and includes several nature reserves, state parks and state forests, with only a few small blocks of private land. It excludes adjacent areas of woodland that are less suitable for the parrots.[1]

## Birds

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The region was identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because, when the flowering conditions are suitable it supports up to about 250 non-breeding swift parrots. It is also home to a small population of diamond firetails.[2] Other woodland birds recorded from the IBA include painted honeyeaters, brown treecreepers, speckled warblers, hooded robins, crested bellbirds and Gilbert's whistlers, with migrant black honeyeaters and pink robins seen occasionally.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 13/08/2011.
2. ^ "IBA: Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.

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