Conondale Range

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The Conondale Range is a mountainous country in Queensland, Australia, located between Maleny, Kenilworth, Kilcoy and Imna.

Location

The hill country is the westernmost part of the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast region and part of the Great Dividing Range. The highest point of the highlands is Mount Langley, which reaches a height of 868 meters above sea level. This mountain is also the highest point in the catchment area of ​​the Brisbane River.

Flat foothills around Kilcoy, which are covered with grass, are used for agriculture. Most steep slopes of the mountain lands are state forests and are in the area of the Conondale National Park.

The streams in the south of the highlands drain into the Stanley River and directly into Lake Somerset. The northern streams flow in the Mary River.

Fauna

About 1620 km ² the Conondale Range are as BirdLife International and as Important Bird Area classified because it contains an isolated and most northerly population of the endemic Dasyornis brachypterus, which was only discovered in the 1980s. It is also the habitat of a large population of the black breast - run chicken ( Turnix melanogaster ), Fahlgesichtschnäpper ( Tregellasia capito ), Shield Bird of Paradise ( Ptiloris paradiseus ), yellow neck - Warbler, Yellow-naped - Bowerbird ( Sericulus chrysocephalus ), Green Bowerbird ( Ailuroedus crassirostris ) and ( Orthonyx temminckii ).

The rare gastric brooding frog ( Rheobatrachus ) and ( Mixophyes fleayi ) are two endemic species of frogs that live in the Conondale Range and in the immediate vicinity.

Fahlgesichtschnäpper

Shield Bird of Paradise

Yellow neck Bowerbird

Green Bowerbird

Orthonyx temminckii

Mixophyes fleayi