Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region

The Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region is a 505 km2 fragmented and irregularly shaped tract of land that encompasses all the box-ironbark forest and woodland remnants used as winter feeding habitat by swift parrots in the Bendigo-Maldon region of central Victoria, south-eastern Australia.

It includes much of the Greater Bendigo National Park, several nature reserves and state forests, with a few small blocks of private land.

[1] The region was identified as an IBA because, when flowering conditions are suitable it supports up to 1100 non-breeding swift parrots.

It is also home to small populations of diamond firetails and non-breeding flame robins.

[2] Other declining woodland birds recorded from the IBA include brown treecreepers, speckled warblers, grey-crowned babblers, Gilbert's whistlers, hooded and pink robins, crested bellbirds and black honeyeaters.