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Resources and Environment Tasmania, facilitates the publication of Recovery Plans relevant to Tasmania to detail the actions needed for the conservation of threatened native wildlife. This Recovery Plan has been developed with the involvement and cooperation of a range of stakeholders, but individual stakeholders have not necessarily committed to undertaking specific actions. The attainment of objectives and the provision of funds may be subject to budgetary and other constraints affecting the parties involved and may also be constrained by the need to address other conservation priorities. Approved recovery actions may be subject to modification due to changes in knowledge and changes in conservation status.

For information on the current listing status of this species under relevant state or territory legislation, see the Species Profile and Threats Database.

Acknowledgement of Country

Our department recognises the First Peoples of this nation and their ongoing connection to culture and country. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Lore Keepers of the world's oldest living culture and pay respects to their Elders past, and present

Image credits

Cover page: Forty-spotted pardalote Pardalotus quadragintus on Bruny Island © Barry Baker

Contents

National Recovery Plan for the Forty-spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus)..............1

1. Summary.........................................................................5

 1.1 Species description, distribution and habitat............................................5

 1.2 Recovery Plan Vision, Objective, and Strategies:..........................................5

   1.2.1 Long-term vision................................................................5

   1.2.2 Recovery Plan objectives..........................................................5

   1.2.3 Strategies to achieve objectives.....................................................6

 1.3 Criteria for success................................................................6

 1.4 Recovery team...................................................................6

2. Introduction......................................................................7

 2.1 Conservation status...............................................................7

 2.2 Taxonomy......................................................................8

 2.3 Species description...............................................................8

 2.4 Species distribution in Australia......................................................8

 2.5 Key Biodiversity Areas............................................................10

 2.6 Population trends................................................................11

 2.7 Cultural and community significance.................................................12

 2.8 Relevant biology and ecology.......................................................12

   2.8.1 Feeding ecology................................................................12

   2.8.2 Breeding ecology...............................................................13

   2.8.3 Movement patterns.............................................................13

   2.8.4 Fire regime...................................................................13

 2.9 Habitat critical to the survival......................................................14

   2.9.1 Key considerations in environmental impact assessments.................................15

3. Threats.........................................................................15

 3.1 Historical causes of decline........................................................15

 3.2 Current threatening processes......................................................15

   3.2.1 Wildfire and inappropriate fire regimes..............................................16

   3.2.2 Habitat loss and modification.....................................................16

   3.2.3 Increased frequency or length of droughts............................................17

   3.2.4 Declining white gum health.......................................................17

   3.2.5 Parasitism....................................................................17

   3.2.6 Small population size............................................................18

   3.2.7 Competition for nest hollows......................................................19

   3.2.8 Competition by aggressive native birds...............................................19

   3.2.9 Predation by introduced species....................................................19

   3.2.10 General recreation.............................................................19

 3.3 Threat prioritisation.............................................................20

4. Populations under particular pressure................................................21

5. Vision, Objectives and Strategies.....................................................22

 5.1 Long-term Vision................................................................22

 5.2 Recovery Plan Objective...........................................................22

 5.3 Strategies to achieve objectives.....................................................22

6. Actions to achieve the specific objectives..............................................23

 Strategy 1: Implement management strategies to reduce known threats to the forty-spotted pardalote and its habitat......23

 Strategy 2: Increase the number and viability of forty-spotted pardalote subpopulations through translocation and supplementation techniques......28

 Strategy 3: Improve protection and increase the quality, extent and connectivity of known and potential habitat for the forty-spotted pardalote......29

 Strategy 4: Improve knowledge of the biology and ecology of the forty-spotted pardalote and