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Gang-gang Cockatoo ........................... Callocephalon fimbriatum.......................... 44
Glossy Black-cockatoo.......................... Calyptorhynchus lathami........................... 45
Hooded Robin..................................... Melanodryas cucullata cucullata ............... 46
Little Eagle......................................... Hieraaetus morphnoides ........................... 47
Red-backed Button-quail ...................... Turnix maculosa ........................................ 48
Regent Honeyeater.............................. Anthochaera phrygia ................................. 49
Scarlet Robin ..................................... Petroica boodang ...................................... 50
Speckled Warbler ................................ Chthonicola sagittata................................. 51
Swift Parrot ........................................ Lathamus discolor ..................................... 52
Varied Sittella ..................................... Daphoenositta chrysoptera ....................... 53
Barking Owl........................................ Ninox connivens ........................................ 54
Powerful Owl ...................................... Ninox strenua ............................................ 55
Sooty Owl .......................................... Tyto tenebricosa........................................ 56
Bettong Species .................................. Bettongia spp. ........................................... 57
Broad-toothed Rat ............................... Mastacomys fuscus................................... 58
Brush-tailed Phascogale ....................... Phascogale tapoatafa................................ 59
Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby ..................... Petrogale penicillata.................................. 60
Eastern Pygmy-possum ........................ Cercartetus nanus ..................................... 62
Eastern Quoll...................................... Dasyurus viverrinus................................... 63
Hastings River Mouse........................... Pseudomys oralis...................................... 64
Koala ................................................ Phascolarctos cinereus ............................. 65
Long-nosed Potoroo............................. Potorous tridactylus................................... 66
New Holland Mouse ............................ Pseudomys novaehollandiae .................... 67
Plains Rat .......................................... Pseudomys australis ................................. 68
Platypus ............................................ Ornithorhynchus anatinus ......................... 69
Red-necked Pademelon........................ Thylogale thetis ......................................... 70
Smoky Mouse..................................... Pseudomys fumeus................................... 71
Southern Brown Bandicoot .................... Isoodon obesulus ...................................... 72
Spotted-tailed Quoll.............................. Dasyurus maculatus.................................. 73
Squirrel Glider..................................... Petaurus norfolcensis................................ 74
White-footed Rabbit-rat......................... Conilurus albipes....................................... 75
Yellow-bellied Glider............................. Petaurus australis...................................... 76
Eastern Bentwing-bat ........................... Miniopterus schreibersii oceanensis ......... 77
Eastern False Pipistrelle........................ Falsistrellus tasmaniensis ......................... 79
Eastern Horseshoe Bat......................... Rhinolophus megaphyllus ......................... 80
Greater Broad-nosed Bat ...................... Scoteanax rueppellii.................................. 81
Grey-headed Flying-fox......................... Pteropus poliocephalus............................. 82
Large-eared Pied Bat ........................... Chalinolobus dwyeri .................................. 83
5.3 INTRODUCED SPECIES ...................................................................................................... 84
Feral Cat ........................................... Felis catus ................................................. 85
Feral Deer.......................................... Cervus spp. ............................................... 86
Feral Dog........................................... Canis lupus................................................ 87
Feral Goat.......................................... Capra hircus .............................................. 88
Feral Pig............................................ Sus scrofa ................................................. 89
Fox................................................... Vulpes vulpes ............................................ 90
Rabbit ............................................... Oryctolagus cuniculus ............................... 91
6 THREATS TO NATIVE FAUNA..................................................................................................... 92
6.1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 92
6.2 KEY THREATENING PROCESSES ........................................................................................ 92
6.3 RELATIVE PRIORITY OF THREATS....................................................................................... 93
6.4 MOST IMPORTANT THREATS AT JKCR ............................................................................... 94
6.4.1 Predation and competition by the fox .............................................................. 94
6.4.2 Predation and competition by the feral cat ...................................................... 94
6.4.3 Human disturbance of roosts and nests.......................................................... 94
6.4.4 Road mortality.................................................................................................. 94
6.4.5 Off-target poisoning (from 1080 or rodenticides)............................................. 94
6.4.6 Environmental degradation, competition and disease transmission by pigs... 95
6.4.7 Weed invasion ................................................................................................. 95
6.4.8 Environmental degradation and competition by feral goats ............................ 95
6.4.9 Environmental degradation and competition by feral deer.............................. 95
6.4.10 Environmental degradation and competition by rabbits .................................. 95
6.4.11 Inappropriate gating of cave entrances ........................................................... 96
The Vertebrate Fauna of Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve