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Sydney has or used to have 29 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Lord Howe Woodhen.

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 Lord Howe Woodhen

Lord Howe Woodhen

Hypotaenidia sylvestris

Status: Endangered

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

Hypotaenidia sylvestris is found across 1 electorates.

The Lord Howe Woodhen is a large flightless rail. It has an olive-brown body and bright chestnut wings with narrow dark brown bars on the primaries and primary coverts. It has a long downward-curved bill that is brown at the tip and pink at the base. It has light pinkish-brown legs. Males and females are similar in appearance. Adults have red irides and juveniles have dark irides. The species is highly territorial and occurs in pairs.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Disrupted ecosystem and population processesDisrupted ecosystem and population processes

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

Sydney has or used to have 15 threatened plants found within its boundaries. Some of these might not be as photogenic as the Lord Howe Woodhen but they're just as important.

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