Threatened Tiwi Animals
The following abbreviations are used in the tables below:
- NT Status – Status of species listed under the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act
- National Status – Status of species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act)
- CR – Species is listed as Critically Endangered
- EN – Species is listed as Endangered
- VU – Species is listed as Vulnerable
- NT – Near Threatened
- DD – Data Deficient
Endemic refers to species that are only found on the Tiwi Islands.
Common Name |
|
Species |
|
NT Status |
|
National Status |
|
Endemic |
|
Eastern Curlew |
|
Numenis madagascariensis |
|
VU |
|
CR |
|
|
|
Great Knot |
|
Calidris tenuirostris |
|
VU |
|
CR |
|
|
|
Curlew Sandpiper |
|
Calidris ferruginea |
|
VU |
|
CR |
|
|
|
Hooded Robin (Tiwi) |
|
Melanodryas cucullata melvillensis |
|
CR |
|
EN |
|
Endemic |
| Masked Owl (Tiwi Islands) |
|
Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensis |
|
EN |
|
EN |
|
Endemic |
| Olive Ridley |
|
Lepidochelys olivacea |
|
VU |
|
EN |
|
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|
Black-footed Tree-rat
|
|
Mesembriomys gouldii gouldii |
|
VU |
|
EN |
|
|
| Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat |
|
Conilurus penicillatus melibius |
|
EN |
|
VU |
|
Endemic |
| Fawn Antechinus |
|
Antechinus bellus |
|
EN |
|
VU |
|
|
| Northern Brush-tailed Phascogale |
|
Phascogale pirata |
|
EN |
|
VU |
|
|
| Dodd's Azure |
|
Ogyris iphis doddi
|
|
EN |
|
|
|
|
| Butler's Dunnart |
|
Sminthopsis butleri |
|
VU |
|
VU |
|
|
|
Red Goshawk |
|
Erythrotriorchis radiatus |
|
VU |
|
VU |
|
|
|
Greater Sand Plover |
|
Charadrius leschenaultii |
|
VU |
|
VU |
|
|
|
Partridge Pigeon |
|
Geophaps smithii smithii |
|
VU |
|
VU |
|
|
|
Horsfield's Bushlark |
|
Mirafra javanica melvillensis |
|
VU |
|
VU |
|
Endemic |
| Hawksbill Turtle |
|
Eretmochelys imbricata |
|
VU |
|
VU |
|
|
| Flatback Turtle |
|
Natator depressus |
|
DD |
|
VU |
|
|
| Water Mouse |
|
Xeromys myodies |
|
DD |
|
VU |
|
|
|
Green Turtle |
|
Chelonia mydas |
|
NT |
|
VU |
|
|
|
Pale Field-rat |
|
Rattus tunneyi |
|
VU |
|
|
|
|
|
Land Snail |
|
Trochomorpha melvillensis |
|
VU |
|
|
|
Endemic |
|
Cognate Land Snail |
|
Amphidromus cognatus |
|
VU |
|
|
|
|
|
Merten's Water Monitor |
|
Varanus mertensi |
|
VU |
|
|
|
|
|
Bar-tailed Godwit |
|
Limosa lapponica baueri |
|
VU |
|
|
|
|
|
Yellow-spotted Monitor |
|
Varanus panoptes |
|
VU |
|
|
|
|
|
Asian Dowitcher |
|
Limnodromus semipalmatus |
|
VU |
|
|
|
|
|
Grey Falcon |
|
Falco hypoleucos |
|
VU |
|
|
|
|
|
Atlas Moth |
|
Attacus wardi |
|
VU |
|
|
|
|
EPBC Act listed migratory species recorded from the Tiwi Islands and surrounding waters
Common Name |
|
Species |
|
Mammals |
|
|
|
Australian Snubfin Dolphin |
|
Orcaella heinsohni |
|
Blue Whale |
|
Balaenoptera musculus |
|
Dugong |
|
Dugong dugong |
|
Humpback Whale |
|
Megaptera novaeangliae |
|
Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin |
|
Tursiops aduncus |
|
Reptiles |
|
|
|
Flatback Turtle |
|
Natator depressus |
|
Green Turtle |
|
Chelonia mydas |
|
Hawksbill Turtle |
|
Eretmochelys imbricata |
|
Olive Ridley |
|
Lepidochelys olivacea |
|
Saltwater Crocodile |
|
Crocodylus porosus |
|
Birds |
|
|
|
Asian Dowitcher |
|
Limnodromus semipalmatus |
|
Bar-tailed Godwit |
|
Limosa lapponica |
|
Black-tailed Godwit |
|
Limosa limosa |
|
Bridled Tern |
|
Onychoprion anaethetus |
|
Broad-billed Sandpiper |
|
Limicola falcinellus |
|
Brown Booby |
|
Sula leucogaster |
|
Caspian Tern |
|
Hydroprogne caspia |
|
Cattle Egret |
|
Ardea ibis |
|
Common Greenshank |
|
Tringa nebularia |
|
Common Sandpiper |
|
Actitis hypoleucos |
|
Common Tern |
|
Sterna hirundo |
|
Curlew Sandpiper |
|
Calidris ferruginea |
|
Eastern Curlew |
|
Numenius madagascariensis |
|
Eastern Great Egret |
|
Ardea modesta |
|
Eastern Osprey |
|
Pandion cristatus |
|
Eastern Reef Egret |
|
Egretta sacra |
|
Fork-tailed Swift |
|
Apus pacificus |
|
Glossy Ibis |
|
Plegadis falcinellus |
|
Great Knot |
|
Calidris tenuirostris |
|
Greater Sand Plover |
|
Charadrius leschenaultii |
|
Grey Plover |
|
Pluvialis squatarola |
|
Grey-tailed Tattler |
|
Tringa brevipes |
|
Lesser Crested Tern |
|
Thalasseus bengalensis |
|
Lesser Frigatebird |
|
Fregata ariel |
|
Lesser Sand Plover |
|
Charadrius mongolus |
|
Little Curlew |
|
Numenius minutus |
|
Little Tern |
|
Sternula albifrons |
|
Marsh Sandpiper |
|
Trigna stagnatilis |
|
Oriental Cuckoo |
|
Cuculus optatus |
|
Oriental Reed-Warbler |
|
Acrocephalus orientalis |
|
Pacific Golden Plover |
|
Pluvialis fulva |
|
Pin-tailed Snipe |
|
Gallinago stenura |
|
Rainbow Bee-eater |
|
Merops ornatus |
|
Red-necked Stint |
|
Calidris ruficollis |
|
Ruddy Turnstone |
|
Arenaria interpres |
|
Sanderling |
|
Calidris alba |
|
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper |
|
Calidris acuminata |
|
Swinhoe's Snipe |
|
Gallinago megala |
|
Terek Sandpiper |
|
Xenus cinereus |
|
Whimbrel |
|
Numenius phaeopus |
|
White-bellied Sea-eagle |
|
Haliaeetus leucogaster |
|
White-throated Needletail |
|
Hirundapus caudacutus |
|
White-winged Black Tern |
|
Chlidonias leucopterus |
|
Wilson's Storm-Petrel |
|
Oceanites oceanicus |