The Warby-Chiltern Box-Ironbark Region comprises a cluster of separate blocks of remnant Box-Ironbark forest

Box-Ironbark forest

Box-Ironbark forest is a forest or woodland ecosystem that is largely limited to central Victoria in south-eastern Australia. Because its component tree species produce abundant nectar and pollen throughout the year, it is important for the conservation of many species of birds and other...

 habitat, with a collective area of 253 km², in north eastern Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, south-eastern Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Description

This site lies to the east of the Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region

Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region

The Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region is a 510 km2 fragmented and irregularly-shaped tract of land that encompasses all the Box-Ironbark forest and woodland remnants used as winter feeding habitat by endangered Swift Parrots in the Rushworth-Heathcote region of central Victoria, south-eastern...

 IBA. It includes the Reef Hills

Reef Hills State Park

Reef Hills State Park is a protected area of 2013 hectares near Benalla, in the north east of Victoria, Australia. There are traces of a mining activity from the gold rush. It was established in 1986.-Environment:...

 and Warby Range State Park

Warby Range State Park

Warby Range State Park is a Victorian state park just north of Glenrowan. It is 14.6 square kilometres in area, and named after Ben Warby, a pastoralist who settled in the area in 1844. There is one camping ground, "Whenams".-History:...

s, the Boweya Flore and Fauna Reserve, Rutherglen Conservation Reserve, Mount Lady Franklin Reserve and part of Chiltern-Mount Pilot National Park. Most of it lies within protected areas or state forests, encompassing only small blocks of private land.

Birds

The site has been identified as an Important Bird Area

Important Bird Area

An Important Bird Area is an area recognized as being globally important habitat for the conservation of bird populations. Currently there are about 10,000 IBAs worldwide. The program was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife International...

 (IBA) by BirdLife International

BirdLife International

BirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources...

 because it provides feeding habitat for relatively large numbers of non-breeding Swift Parrot

Swift Parrot

The Swift Parrot breeds in Tasmania and migrates north to south eastern Australia from Griffith-Warialda in New South Wales and west to Adelaide in the winter. It is related to the rosellas, with the feeding habits of a lorikeet...

s when flowering conditions are suitable, as well as the last few endangered

Endangered species

An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters...

 Regent Honeyeater

Regent Honeyeater

The Regent Honeyeater, Xanthomyza phrygia, is an endangered bird endemic to Australia. It feeds on nectar and insects within eucalyptus forests. Recent genetic research suggests it is closely related to the wattlebirds.-Distribution:...

s in Victoria. It also supports small numbers of Painted Honeyeater

Painted Honeyeater

The Painted Honeyeater is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Grantiella.It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests...

s, Diamond Firetail

Diamond Firetail

The Diamond Firetail Stagonopleura guttata is a species of estrildid finch found in eastern Australia, from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, to south-eastern Queensland, commonly found on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range. The bird lives in eucalypt forest and woodland, mallee country,...

s and non-breeding Flame Robin

Flame Robin

The Flame Robin is a small passerine bird native to Australia. It is a moderately common resident of the coolest parts of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Like the other two red-breasted Petroica robins—the Scarlet Robin and the Red-capped Robin—it is often simply but...

s. Declining woodland birds still present in the IBA include Brown Treecreeper

Brown Treecreeper

The Brown Treecreeper is the largest Australasian treecreeper. The bird is endemic to eastern Australia, found in eucalypt forests and woodlands of the Great Dividing Range. The Brown Treecreeper is pale brown to grey-brown, with black streaking on the underparts and black bars on the undertail....

s, Speckled Warbler

Speckled Warbler

The Speckled Warbler is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae, where it belongs to the monotypic genus Chthonicola. It is endemic to Australia...

s, Hooded Robin

Hooded Robin

The Hooded Robin is a small passerine bird native to Australia. Like many brightly coloured robins of the Petroicidae it is sexually dimorphic; the male bearing distinctive black and white coloured plumage, while the female is a nondescript grey-brown.-Taxonomy:Like all Australian Robins, it is...

s, Grey-crowned Babbler

Grey-crowned Babbler

The Grey-crowned Babbler is a species of bird in the Pomatostomidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea....

s, Gilbert's Whistler

Gilbert's Whistler

The Gilbert's Whistler is a species of bird in the Pachycephalidae family.It is endemic to Australia.-References:* BirdLife International 2004. . Downloaded on 26 July 2007....

 and, occasionally, migrant Black Honeyeater

Black Honeyeater

The Black Honeyeater is a species of bird in the family of honeyeaters, Meliphagidae, and the sole species in the genus Sugomel. The Black Honeyeater exhibits sexual dimorphism with the male being black and white while the female is a speckled grey-brown; immature birds look like the female...

s. Crested Bellbird

Crested Bellbird

The Crested Bellbird is a species of bird in the Colluricinclidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Oreoica.It is endemic to Australia.-Conservation status:...

s are locally extinct.