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The blue-billed duck's vulnerable status has been de-listed for the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, [12] although they are currently recognized as vulnerable in NSW, according to the Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW. [7] The blue-billed duck is listed as "threatened" on the Victorian Flora and ...
Plumed whistling duck; Pink-eared duck; Blue-billed duck; Australian shelduck; Freckled duck; Royal penguin (Macquarie Island endemic) Christmas Island frigatebird (Christmas Island endemic) Abbott's booby (Christmas Island endemic) Short-tailed shearwater (breeding endemic) Hoary-headed grebe (vagrant to New Zealand, has bred there) Yellow ...
NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service: Website: ... Noteworthy sightings recorded here include the blue-billed duck and the rare Australasian bittern. [2] Gallery
New South Wales is a state in Australia of great biodiversity, with 622 species of bird recorded.. This list is based on the 1996 classification by Charles Sibley and Burt Monroe (though there has been a recent (2008) extensive revision of Australian birds by Leslie Christidis and Walter E. Boles [1]), which has resulted in some lumping and splitting. [2]
The greater scaup (Aythya marila), just scaup in Europe or, colloquially, "bluebill" in North America, [3] is a mid-sized diving duck, larger than the closely related lesser scaup and tufted duck. It spends the summer months breeding in Iceland, east across Scandinavia, northern Russia and Siberia, Alaska, and northern Canada.
In January 1980, 153 Freckled Duck and 16 Blue-billed Duck were recorded at Lake Pinaroo; both of these species are threatened in NSW. [8] Although there have been few formal counts conducted at the Lake Pinaroo Ramsar site, four migratory shorebird species have been recorded at Lake Pinaroo since 1973.
Plumed whistling ducks Musk duck Black swan Pink-eared duck Pacific black duck. 32 species recorded [20 extant native, 4 introduced, 7 vagrant, 1 hybrid] The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These are adapted for an aquatic existence, with webbed feet, bills that are flattened to a ...
Featherdale Wildlife Park is a zoo located in Doonside, Sydney, Australia.The park is located in Sydney's west, approximately 40 km (25 mi) from Sydney's CBD. The park contains various species native to Australia, and is known to be one of the world's largest collections of Australian fauna.