Threatened species known to occur in the Urban Melbourne area
Karkarook Park must play a part in supporting biodiversity and threatened species in our suburban area.
Quoting from the report:
"Threatened species are considered to be priorities for local protection and recovery work. In many circumstances, work to protect and enhance their health and resilience will also benefit other native animal species and the local habitat. The following table shows some of the threatened species and ecological communities that have been recorded in this area. A full list of the threatened species known to occur in this region since 1980 is available at the Data tables section of this strategy. "
We need to:
identify threatened species currently resident or transient at Karkarook Park
develop habitat to enable many species (threatened as well as common) to return to the park
Threatened species known to occur in the Urban Melbourne area
Birds
Australasian Bittern, Australian Little Bittern, Australian Painted Snipe, Barking Owl, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black Falcon, Blue-billed Duck, Brolga, Caspian Tern, Curlew Sandpiper, Diamond Firetail, Eastern Curlew, Eastern Great Egret, Fairy Tern, Freckled Duck, Great Knot, Grey Goshawk, Hooded Plover, Lewin's Rail, Little Egret, Little Tern, Magpie Goose, Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Masked Owl, Northern Giant Petrel, Orange Bellied Parrot, Painted Honeyeater, Plumed Egret, Powerful Owl, Red Knot, Regent Honeyeater, Sooty Owl, Southern Giant Petrel, Speckled Warbler, Square-tailed Kite, Swift Parrot, White-bellied Sea-Eagle, White-throated Needletail
Mammals
Brush-tailed Phascogale, Eastern Barred Bandicoot, Eastern Bent Winged Bat, Greater Glider, Grey-headed Flying-fox, Southern Brown Bandicoot, Swamp Antechinus, White-footed Dunnart, Platypus
Reptiles
Broad-shelled Turtle, Striped Legless Lizard, Swamp Skink, Lace Monitor, Tussock Skink
Amphibians
Brown Toadlet, Growling Grass Frog, Southern Toadlet
Fish
Australian Grayling, Dwarf Galaxias, Freshwater Catfish, Macquarie Perch, Murray Cod, Trout Cod
Invertebrates
Eltham Copper Butterfly, Golden Sun Moth
Flora
Bacchus Marsh Wattle, Basalt Pepper-cress, Button Wrinklewort, Clover Glycine, Gully Grevillea, Large-flower Crane’s-bill, Large-fruit Yellow-gum, Large-headed Fireweed, Maroon Leek-orchid, Matted Flax-lily, Pale Myoporum, Plains Rice-flower, Purple Blown-grass, Purple Diuris, Short Water-starwort, Silver Gum, Small Golden Moths Orchid, Small Milkwort, Sunshine Diuris, Swamp Everlasting, Tough Scurf-pea, Yellow Elderberry, Yellow-lip Spider-orchid, Christmas Spider-orchid, Kilsyth South Spider-orchid, Large-flower Crane's-bill, Spiny Rice-flower, Small Scurf-pea, Basalt Sun-orchid, Melbourne Yellow-gum, Buloke