Common Name
Bush Stone-curlew
Alternate name
Bush Thick-knee
Stronghold population
False
Regionally significant/rationale
True
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Local distribution
Uncommon in lightly timbered forest and woodland with grass ground cover and few or no shrubs. Population declines noted in many areas. Not uncommon in woodland, farmland and parks.
Known location
Lamington NP, Pine Ridge CP, Hope Island, Coombabah, Canungra, Pimpama River Conservation Area, Sout
Other locality
Not uncommon in woodland, farmland and parks. Has adapted well to cleared environments. Declining in northern New South Wales and perhaps declining recently on the Gold Coast.
General ecology
Woodland, parks, farmland.
Specific ecology
Grass and scattered trees.
Habitat comment
Has declined dramatically in southern Australia but remains reasonably common in much of southern Queensland, where it lives mainly in farmland and parks, not pristine woodland. Will breed in urban parks.
