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Barker has or used to have 48 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Mallee Whipbird.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

Photo of Mallee Whipbird

Mallee Whipbird

Psophodes leucogaster leucogaster

Status: Vulnerable

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Psophodes leucogaster leucogaster is found across 2 electorates.

The Western Whipbird is about 20 to 25 cm long and has a mass of around 47 g. It is a distinctive bird, with a short triangular crest, a short and stout bill, long and powerful legs, short rounded wings, and a long graduated tail. It is mostly greyish-olive to olive above, with a prominent white stripe down each cheek and a black chin and throat, and grey to olive below, with a broad white stripe down the centre of the breast and belly. It has dull red irides, a narrow ring of grey skin around each eye, a grey-black to black bill, and dark grey legs and feet. The sexes are alike, but juvenile birds can be distinguished from the adults by the absence of the black and white colouring on the cheeks, chin and throat. The Western Whipbird usually occurs singly or in pairs, or sometimes in small groups of three or four birds.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Adverse fire regimesAdverse fire regimes

Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradationHabitat loss, fragmentation and degradation

Explore more about the threats facing species on our Resources page.

Barker has or used to have 54 threatened plants found within its boundaries. Some of these might not be as photogenic as the Mallee Whipbird but they're just as important.

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