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Contents

• Download the Recovery Plan as a PDF file
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Executive Summary
• 1 Current conservation status
• 2 Description
  • 2.1 Taxonomy
  • 2.2 General
• 3 Distribution
  • 3.1 Current and Historical Distribution
  • 3.2 Movements
• 4 Ecology
  • 4.1 Breeding and Life Cycle
  • 4.2 Habitat
  • 4.3 Diet and Foraging Ecology
• 5 Relevant Legislation
  • 5.1 Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995
  • 5.2 National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974
  • 5.3 Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
  • 5.4 Native Vegetation Conservation Act 1997
  • 5.5 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
• 6 Management Issues
  • 6.1 Threats and reasons for decline
  • 6.2 Social and economic consequences
  • 6.3 Biodiversity benefits
• 7 Previous Actions Undertaken
• 8 Species ability to Recover
• 9 Recovery objectives and performance criteria
  • 9.1 Objectives of the Recovery Plan
  • 9.2 Recovery Performance criteria
• 10 Recovery Actions
  • 10.1 Action 1 - Identify extant populations of the Thick-billed Grasswren
  • 10.2 Action 2 - Increase awareness and community participation
  • 10.3 Action 3 - Monitor the results of future faunan surveys in NSW
  • 10.4 Action 4 - Develop an extended records reporting system
  • 10.5 Action 5 - Recovery Plan Co-ordination
• 11 Alternative management strategies
  • 11.1 Option 1 - Nominate the species as presumed Extinct
  • 11.2 Option 2 - No management action taken
  • 11.3 Option 3 - Undertake immediate active management
• 12 Implementation
• 13 Preparation details
  • 13.1 Date of last amendment
  • 13.2 Review date
• References

List of Figures

• Figure 1 Distribution of the Thick-billed Grasswren in Australia.
• Figure 2 Distribution of records of the Thick-billed Grasswren in NSW.

List of Tables

• Table 3 Implementation schedule

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Download the Recovery Plan

• Download Thick-billed Grasswren (Eastern Subspecies) (Amytornis textilis modestus) (North, 1902) Recovery Plan - (grasswren.pdf - 188 KB)

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Acknowledgements

Most of the information on the species biology contained within this Recovery Plan is based on information collated by J.M. Peter, W.K. Steele, M.A. Weston, K. Al-Dabbagh, R.N. Astley, J.R. Starks, A. Williamson and A.M. Dunn of Birds Australia under contract for the NSW NPWS.

© NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, July 2002.
This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the
Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced without prior written
permission from NPWS.
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
43 Bridge Street
(PO Box 1967)
Hurstville NSW 2220
Tel: 02 95856444
www.npws.nsw.gov.au

For further information contact:
Threatened Species Unit, Western Directorate.
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
P.O. Box 2111
Dubbo NSW 2830
Tel (02) 6883 5330

This Plan should be cited as follows;
NPWS (2002). Thick-billed Grasswren (eastern subspecies) Amytornis textilis modestus (North, 1902) Recovery Plan. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville NSW.