Wooroonooran Important Bird Area

The bird sanctuary is a bird sanctuary where the helmet cassowaries live.

Coordinates: 17 ° 44 ′ 48 ″  S , 145 ° 44 ′ 59 ″  E

Wooroonooran Important Bird Area​

Queensland

The Wooroonooran Important Bird Area is about 5125 square kilometers and consists mainly of be waldetem country in the Wet Tropics of Queensland and is a UNESCO - World Heritage in Far North Queensland , Australia listed.

description

The bird sanctuary encompasses a large part of the rainforests of Australia, which extends south from Port Douglas further towards Cairns to Lucinda . It is dominated by the two granite mountains Mount Bartle Frere (1622 m) and Mount Bellenden Ker (1593 m), which are the highest peaks in northern Australia.

Large parts of the area were developed earlier, the impacts have remained relatively minor and the ecological integrity has largely remained intact.

Numerous protected areas are located or overlap in the reserve, including Barron Gorge National Park , Danbulla National Park , Dinden National Park , Girringun National Park , Japoon National Park , Kirrama National Park , Kuranda National Park , Malaan National Park , Mowbray National Park , Murray Upper National Parks , Tully Gorge National Parks, and Wooroonooran National Parks .

Flora and fauna

The area was of BirdLife International for Important Bird Area declared (IBA) because it has a large population of this protection zone Helmkasuaren are. There is also a population of dental Laubenvogel and columns gardener , Malurus amabilis , cap honeyeater ( Xanthotis macleayanus ), stained-billed honeyeater ( Lichenostomus frenatus ), Torre honeyeater ( Meliphaga notata ) Oreoscopus gutturalis , Rotstirnsericornis ( Sericornis keri ), Mountain Dornschnabel ( Acanthiza katherina ) Schwarzkopfflöter ( Orthonyx spaldingii ), gray-backed thickhead ( Colluricincla boweri ), magpie monarch ( Arses kaupi ), Cophixalus neglectus, and pale- faced flycatcher ( Tregellasia capito ), which are endemic to the Queensland rainforests.

In addition to birds, there are a number of other significant endemic animals, including the Pseudochirops archeri , Pseudochirulus herbertensis , lemur ringbuttler , Lumholtz tree kangaroo , Taudactylus rheophilus , Cophixalus neglectus , Techmarscincus jigurru , Eulamprus frerei and Eulamprus frerei .

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  Toothed arborvitae

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  Column gardener

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  Lemur ring pouch

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  Lumholtz tree kangaroo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Wooroonooran. Download: http://www.birdlife.org from December 2, 2011.
2. ↑ IBA: Wooroonooran . In: Birdata . Birds Australia. Retrieved December 2, 2011.