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2021).

The species' preferred habitats include vine thickets, softwood scrubs, bottle tree scrubs, vine scrub regrowth, Lantana (Lantana camara) and other shrubs under mature plantations of Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii), and Acacia and Austromyrtus scrubs on sandy coastal soils. Small groups of button-quails search in the leaf litter for invertebrates and seeds (Webster et al. 2019; Webster et al. 2021) and presence of their feeding scrapes may reveal occurrence at sites. A deep, well-developed and extensive leaf-litter layer is preferred for foraging, though birds also occur where litter is shallow and discontinuous, including seasonally (e.g. during very wet spells when much litter washes away) and locally (e.g. at some sandier coastal sites) (R Jaensch pers. comm. May 2022).

Recovery Plan Vision, Objective, and Strategies:

Long-term vision

The Black-breasted Button-quail population size and area of occupancy has increased to such an extent that the species no longer qualifies for listing as threatened under any of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 listing criteria.

Recovery plan objectives

By 2032, maintain and improve the extent, condition and connectivity of habitat of the Black-breasted Button-quail.

By 2032, demonstrably reduce the severity of identified anthropogenic threats across the extent of the species' range.

By 2032, achieve, measure and sustain a stable or positive trend in area of occupancy and population size (assessed by new baseline counts) in the number of mature individuals of the Black-breasted Button-quail.

This will be achieved by implementing the actions set out in this recovery plan that minimise threats while protecting and enhancing the species' habitat throughout its range, adequately monitoring the species, generating new knowledge to guide recovery actions and increasing public awareness.

Strategies to achieve objectives

  1. Implement management strategies to reduce threats to the Black-breasted Button-quail and its habitat.
  2. Enhance protection, improve the quality and increase the extent of suitable habitat for the Black-breasted Button-quail.
  3. Improve knowledge of the distribution, biology and ecology of the Black-breasted Button-quail through targeted research and implement a monitoring strategy to identify and measure population trends.
  4. Increase stakeholder participation in Black-breasted Button-quail conservation and management.
  5. Coordinate, review and report on recovery progress.

Criteria for success

This recovery plan will be deemed successful if, within 10 years, all of the following have been achieved:

   * The Black-breasted Button-quail population has been adequately monitored and the trends in the area of occupancy and population size are shown to have changed from declining to increasing, as a result of recovery actions.
   * Threats within the range of the Black-breasted Button-quail are managed, and reduced to avoid or mitigate impacts on the species.
   * There has been an improvement in the quality and extent of Black-breasted Button-quail habitat throughout, and at