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Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00482
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 1 (pt 10/16)
Character Range: 35297–38135

For more information on KBAs visit http://www.keybiodiversityareas.org/home
The global KBA partnership currently recognises 18 KBAs as important for Swift Parrot conservation and to support the long-term persistence of the species. KBAs are also undergoing a regular revision to ensure changes in IUCN red list status, taxonomic changes, local population trends as well as increased knowledge of the species are reflected accurately in the KBA network. As such, over time, additional KBAs may be recognised for their importance for Swift Parrot or new KBAs may be declared for this and other taxa. Detailed KBA Factsheets, including boundary maps, population estimates of trigger species and scientific references are for these 18 areas (and other KBAs) are available from the World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas (BirdLife International 2020). The 18 KBAs with Swift Parrot as one of their Trigger species were also recognised prior to the introduction of the KBA standard as Important Bird Areas for the species in 2009 based on the analysis by BirdLife Australia. They include:
New South Wales
    * Brisbane Water – Brisbane Water is a wave-dominated barrier estuary located in the Central Coast region, north of Sydney, New South Wales. Some 2,277 hectares of Brisbane Water is classified as KBA because it has an isolated population of Bush Stone-curlews and supports flocks of the Critically Endangered Regent Honeyeater and Swift Parrot during autumn and winter, when the Swamp Mahogany trees are in flower.
    * Capertee Valley – The Capertee Valley is the second largest canyon (by width) in the world and largest valley in New South Wales, 135 km north-west of Sydney. Parts of the valley are included in the Wollemi National Park, the second-largest national park in New South Wales. The valley is classified as a KBA because it is the most important breeding site for the Critically Endangered Regent Honeyeater. It also supports populations of the Painted Honeyeater, Rockwarbler, Swift Parrot, Plum-headed Finch and Diamond Firetail.
    * Hastings-Macleay – The Hastings-Macleay KBA is a 1,148 km2 tract of land stretching for 100 km along the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, from Stuarts Point in the north to the Camden Haven River in the south. The area was identified by BirdLife International as an KBA because it regularly supports significant numbers of the Critically Endangered Swift Parrot and Regent Honeyeater.
    * Hunter Valley – The Hunter Valley KBA is a 560 km2 tract of land around Cessnock in central-eastern New South Wales. The site has been identified as a KBA because it regularly supports significant numbers of the Critically Endangered Regent Honeyeater and Swift Parrot. The KBA is defined by remnant patches of eucalypt-woodland and forest used by the birds in a largely anthropogenic