Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00482:reg:1:p14
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00482
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 1 (pt 14/16)
Character Range: 45851–48829

as the Critically Endangered Regent Honeyeaters.
Tasmania
    * Bruny Island – Bruny Island is a 362 km2 island located off the south-eastern coast of Tasmania. Bruny Island is classified as a KBA because it supports the largest population of the Endangered Forty-spotted Pardalote, up to a third of the population of the Swift Parrot in a given year, subject to seasonal flowering conditions.
    * Maria Island – Maria Island is a mountainous island located in the Tasman Sea, off the east coast of Tasmania. The 115 km2 island is contained within the Maria Island National Park, which includes a marine area of 18 km2 off the island's northwest coast. Maria Island has been identified as a KBA because it supports significant numbers of Endangered Forty-spotted Pardalotes, and, subject to seasonal flowering conditions, a significant number of Swift Parrots.
    * South-east Tasmania – The South-east Tasmania KBA encompasses much of the land retaining forest and woodland habitats, suitable for breeding Swift Parrots and Forty-spotted Pardalotes, from Orford to Recherche Bay in south-eastern Tasmania. This large 335,777-hectare KBA comprises wet and dry eucalypt forests containing old growth Tasmanian Blue Gums or Black Gums, and grassy Manna Gum woodlands, as well as suburban residential centres and farmland where they retain large flowering, and adjacent hollow-bearing, trees. Key tracts of forest within the KBA include Wielangta, the Meehan and Wellington Ranges, and the Tasman Peninsula.

1.8                 Habitat critical for survival
Habitat critical to the survival of a species or ecological community refers to areas that are necessary:
    * For activities such as foraging, breeding, roosting, or dispersal;
    * For the long-term maintenance of the species or ecological community (including the maintenance of species essential to the survival of the species or ecological community, such as pollinators);
    * To maintain genetic diversity and long-term evolutionary development; or
    * For the reintroduction of populations or recovery of the species or ecological community.
Such habitat may be, but is not limited to: habitat identified in a recovery plan for the species or ecological community as habitat critical for that species or ecological community; and/or habitat listed on the Register of Critical Habitat maintained by the Minister under the EPBC Act.
The Swift Parrot breeds mostly on the east and south-east coast of Tasmania during summer and migrates to mainland Australia in autumn. During winter the species disperses across forests and woodlands, foraging on nectar and lerps mainly in Victoria and New South Wales. Small numbers of Swift Parrots are also recorded in the Australian Capital Territory, south eastern South Australia and southern Queensland. Within these habitats, Swift Parrots preferentially forage in large, mature trees (Kennedy 2000; Kennedy and Overs 2001; Kennedy and Tzaros 2005) that provide more