Cumberland Plain demonstration. Curated observations are labelled MOCK until live connectors succeed. Live adapters (GBIF, iNaturalist) do not silently become authoritative occurrence records.

BSBioSentinelBiological intelligence

Swift Parrot

declining

Lathamus discolor · (Shaw, 1790)

Taxonomic intelligence

Recorded as Lathamus discolor → currently accepted as Lathamus discolor

Animalia / Chordata / Aves / Psittaciformes / Psittacidae

Range and trajectory

Known range: Breeds Tasmania; winters south-eastern mainland woodlands

Observed range: Irregular winter visitor to western Sydney box-gum and grey box; public locations generalised

Relative detections (demonstration)

Habitat, pressure, coverage

winter-flowering eucalypts

Pressures: habitat loss on wintering grounds; collision; competition

Monitoring: Opportunistic + targeted winter surveys; not a breeding population here

Evidence gaps: foraging site fidelity, collision risk near new infrastructure

Timeline

  1. 2020-07-12 · observation
    Swift Parrot winter detection

    Generalised public location.

Conservation

EPBC critically endangered

NSW endangered

Sensitive coordinates generalised in public view.