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Bain, G.C., MacDonald, M.A., Hamer, R., Gardiner, R., Johnson, C.N., Jones, M.E. 2020. Changing bird communities of an agricultural landscape: declines in arboreal foragers, increases in large species. Royal Society Open Science 7: 200076.
Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.
Birdlife Australia. 2020. Birdata Platform Extract. Melbourne. Birdlife Australia. Available at: https://birdata.birdlife.org.au/.
Di Virgilio, G., Evans, J.P., Blake, S.A., Armstrong, M., Dowdy, A.J., Sharples, J., McRae, R. 2019. Climate change increases the potential for extreme wildfires. Geophysical Research Letters 46: 8517-8526.
Dowdy, A.J., Ye, H., Pepler, A., Thatcher, M., Osbrough, S.L., Evans, J.P., Di Virgilio, G., McCarthy, N. 2019. Future changes in extreme weather and pyroconvection risk factors for Australian wildfires. Scientific Reports 9: 10073.
Fancourt, B.A., Hawkins, C.E., Cameron, E.Z., Jones, M.E., Nicol, S.C. 2015. Devil declines and catastrophic cascades: is mesopredator release of feral cats inhibiting recovery of the eastern quoll? PLoS One 10: e0119303.
Forest Practices Authority (FPA). 2020. Information on land clearing controls in Tasmania. Available at: https://www.fpa.tas.gov.au.
Higgins, P. J.; Peter, J. M. 2002. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds: pardalotes to shrike-thrushes. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Hollings, T., Jones, M., Mooney, N., Mccallum, H. 2014. Trophic cascades following the disease-induced decline of an apex predator, the Tasmanian devil. Conservation Biology 28: 63-75.
IUCN. 2022. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 21 July 2022).
Newman, M. 2017. Changes in bird populations on Mt Wellington over a 40-year period. Tasmanian Bird Report 38: 34-43.
Newman, M., Ashby, R., Nichols, A., Baker, G.B. 2021. Disturbing decreases in Tasmanian endemic species. Tasmanian Bird Report 41 (in press).
Newman, M., Young, C.M., Loofs-Samorzewski, M., Walter, A., Dick, K., Knights, K., Bresnehan, S. 2020. The implications of fuel reduction burning on birds in south-east Tasmania – a pilot study. Tasmanian Bird Report 39: 17-26.
Newman, O.M.G., Ashby, R., Holdsworth, M., Baker, G.B. 2021. Tasmanian Dusky Robin Melanodryas vittata vittata. In: Garnett, S.T., Baker, G.B. (ed.), The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020, pp. 753-755. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.
Woinarski, J.C.Z, Woolley, L.A., Garnett, S.T., Legge, S.M., Murphy, B.P., Lawes, M.J., Comer, S., Dickman, C.R., Doherty, T.S., Edwards, G., Nankivill, A. 2017. Compilation and traits of Australian bird species killed by cats. Biological Conservation 216: 1-9.
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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Dusky Robin Melanodryas vittata. Downloaded from
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Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/12/2024.