Threatened Tiwi Animals

The following abbreviations are used in the tables below:

• NT Status – Status of species listed under the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act

• National Status – Status of species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act)

• CR – Species is listed as Critically Endangered

• EN – Species is listed as Endangered

• VU – Species is listed as Vulnerable

• NT – Near Threatened

• DD – Data Deficient

Endemic refers to species that are only found on the Tiwi Islands.

Common Name	Species	NT Status	NationalStatus	Endemic
Eastern Curlew	Numenis madagascariensis	VU	CR
Great Knot	Calidris tenuirostris	VU	CR
Curlew Sandpiper	Calidris ferruginea	VU	CR
Hooded Robin (Tiwi)	Melanodryas cucullata melvillensis	CR	EN	Endemic
Masked Owl (Tiwi Islands)	Tyto novaehollandiae melvillensis	EN	EN	Endemic
Olive Ridley	Lepidochelys olivacea	VU	EN	`
Black-footed Tree-rat	Mesembriomys gouldii gouldii	VU	EN
Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat	Conilurus penicillatus melibius	EN	VU	Endemic
Fawn Antechinus	Antechinus bellus	EN	VU
Northern Brush-tailed Phascogale	Phascogale pirata	EN	VU
Dodd's Azure	Ogyris iphis doddi	EN
Butler's Dunnart	Sminthopsis butleri	VU	VU
Red Goshawk	Erythrotriorchis radiatus	VU	VU
Greater Sand Plover	Charadrius leschenaultii	VU	VU
Partridge Pigeon	Geophaps smithii smithii	VU	VU
Horsfield's Bushlark	Mirafra javanica melvillensis	VU	VU	Endemic
Hawksbill Turtle	Eretmochelys imbricata	VU	VU
Flatback Turtle	Natator depressus	DD	VU
Water Mouse	Xeromys myodies	DD	VU
Green Turtle	Chelonia mydas	NT	VU
Pale Field-rat	Rattus tunneyi	VU
Land Snail	Trochomorpha melvillensis	VU		Endemic
Cognate Land Snail	Amphidromus cognatus	VU
Merten's Water Monitor	Varanus mertensi	VU
Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica baueri	VU
Yellow-spotted Monitor	Varanus panoptes	VU
Asian Dowitcher	Limnodromus semipalmatus	VU
Grey Falcon	Falco hypoleucos	VU
Atlas Moth	Attacus wardi	VU

EPBC Act listed migratory species recorded from the Tiwi Islands and surrounding waters

Common Name	Species
Mammals
Australian Snubfin Dolphin	Orcaella heinsohni
Blue Whale	Balaenoptera musculus
Dugong	Dugong dugong
Humpback Whale	Megaptera novaeangliae
Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin	Tursiops aduncus
Reptiles
Flatback Turtle	Natator depressus
Green Turtle	Chelonia mydas
Hawksbill Turtle	Eretmochelys imbricata
Olive Ridley	Lepidochelys olivacea
Saltwater Crocodile	Crocodylus porosus
Birds
Asian Dowitcher	Limnodromus semipalmatus
Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica
Black-tailed Godwit	Limosa limosa
Bridled Tern	Onychoprion anaethetus
Broad-billed Sandpiper	Limicola falcinellus
Brown Booby	Sula leucogaster
Caspian Tern	Hydroprogne caspia
Cattle Egret	Ardea ibis
Common Greenshank	Tringa nebularia
Common Sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos
Common Tern	Sterna hirundo
Curlew Sandpiper	Calidris ferruginea
Eastern Curlew	Numenius madagascariensis
Eastern Great Egret	Ardea modesta
Eastern Osprey	Pandion cristatus
Eastern Reef Egret	Egretta sacra
Fork-tailed Swift	Apus pacificus
Glossy Ibis	Plegadis falcinellus
Great Knot	Calidris tenuirostris
Greater Sand Plover	Charadrius leschenaultii
Grey Plover	Pluvialis squatarola
Grey-tailed Tattler	Tringa brevipes
Lesser Crested Tern	Thalasseus bengalensis
Lesser Frigatebird	Fregata ariel
Lesser Sand Plover	Charadrius mongolus
Little Curlew	Numenius minutus
Little Tern	Sternula albifrons
Marsh Sandpiper	Trigna stagnatilis
Oriental Cuckoo	Cuculus optatus
Oriental Reed-Warbler	Acrocephalus orientalis
Pacific Golden Plover	Pluvialis fulva
Pin-tailed Snipe	Gallinago stenura
Rainbow Bee-eater	Merops ornatus
Red-necked Stint	Calidris ruficollis
Ruddy Turnstone	Arenaria interpres
Sanderling	Calidris alba
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	Calidris acuminata
Swinhoe's Snipe	Gallinago megala
Terek Sandpiper	Xenus cinereus
Whimbrel	Numenius phaeopus
White-bellied Sea-eagle	Haliaeetus leucogaster
White-throated Needletail	Hirundapus caudacutus
White-winged Black Tern	Chlidonias leucopterus
Wilson's Storm-Petrel	Oceanites oceanicus