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From: "Angus Innes" <>
Date: 15 August 2007 7:26:23 PM
To: <>
Subject: Painted Snipe/ Aus Threatened Bird List.
Dean Ingwersen's informative e-mail on the Painted Snipe referred
to his colleague's work on this bird for the Federal Government's
threatened species unit.
This prompt's me to draw attention to the website that
incorporates the colleagues work - and the "Australian Painted
Snipe" provides a good example to demonstrate the use of the site.
With excuses to the researchers, a computer newchum's guide follows:
1. The site is accessed through the following llink:
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/index.html
(This page, part of the Australian Government's Dept of Environment
website, heads the section on the threatened species and
ecological communities listed under the federal Environment
Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ["EPBC"].)
2. The link throws up a page entitlesd "Threatened species and
ecological communities". Go to the box on the right of the page
entitled "EPBC Lists" and click on "Threatened Fauna". This
produces the complete (federal) list of threatened fauna species.
3. If you then go to the bird list in the "Vulnerable" category
within the list you find "Australian Painted Snipe" (45th name). A
click on the name gives a page of essential details about the bird
including a distribution map. Importantly, it has related links
including to some illustrations and to the detailed document
presented for the listing of the species.
No doubt this data base, which is overseen by the scientific
committee, will be expanded over the years but it is a very good
starting point when checking on rare (threatened) Australian bird
species.
Angus Innes.
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