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The southern cassowary is endangered in Queensland. Kofron and Chapman, when they assessed the decline of this species, found that of the former cassowary habitat, only 20–25% remains. Habitat loss and fragmentation is the primary cause of decline. [59]
The southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), also known as double-wattled cassowary, Australian cassowary, or two-wattled cassowary, is a large flightless black bird, found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and northeastern Australia. It is one of the three living species of cassowary, alongside the dwarf cassowary and the northern cassowary.
The northern cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus), also known as the one-wattled cassowary, single-wattled cassowary, [2] or golden-necked cassowary, is a large, stocky flightless bird of northern New Guinea. It is one of the three living species of cassowary, alongside the dwarf cassowary and the southern cassowary.
It was a juvenile cassowary, wildlife officials said. Cassowaries are a large species of flightless bird found in rainforests of Queensland and Papua New Guinea, according to the Queensland ...
The national park was established in 2010 and contains 5,563 hectares (13,750 acres) of important cassowary habitat. [1] [2] References
The site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it contains significant numbers of southern cassowaries.It also supports the rare rufous owl subspecies Ninox rufa queenslandica, as well as populations of beach and bush stone-curlews, yellow and yellow-spotted honeyeaters, fernwrens, Bower's shrike-thrushes and pale-yellow robins.
In New Guinea, cassowary eggs are brought back to villages and the chicks raised for eating as a much-prized delicacy, despite (or perhaps because of) the risk they pose to life and limb. They reach up to 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) tall and weigh as much as 85 kilograms (187 lb) [ 18 ]
Fortunately, the cassowary isn’t known to be aggressive and will only attack if it feels the need to defend itself, its chicks, or its nest (via Scientific American). Image credits: an1malpulse #40