Gold Coast
flora and fauna

A guide to the plants and animals that make our city one of the most biodiverse in Australia.
Phylum
CHORDATA
Class
AVES
Family
DICRURIDAE
Genus
Dicrurus
Species
bracteatus
Has fauna
True
Mapping

Common Name
Spangled Drongo
Alternate name
Is historical
False
QLD
NSW
EPBC
Marine
APC
ROTAP
Comment
Moderately common.
LGA significant
False
Stronghold population
False
Wildnet record
False
Museum listing
False
Introduced
False
Qld Census
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Abundance
Common
Historical abundance
Endemicity
Overall distribution
Local distribution
Common north-south migrant found in a wide variety of habitats from parks and gardens to rainforest
Known location
Coomera, Hinze Dam, Helensvale, Mudgeeraba, Bundall, Currumbin Valley, Labrador, Advancetown, Ormeau
Other locality
Moderately common and widespread in lowland habitats. A summer visitor.
Riparian dependent
False
Wetland dependent
False
Forest dependent
False
Hollow dependent
False
Terrestrial
True
Estuarine
False
Marine
False
General ecology
Eucalypt forest, rainforest, riparian forest, farmland, gardens.
Specific ecology
Likes thick vegetation. Mainly confined to lowlands and not recorded from upland rainforest, though it will use lowland rainforest remnants.
Habitat
Habitat comment
An adaptable bird, that often visits bushy gardens and farms.
Threats
Management
Community type
Migratory
False
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