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Mount Lofty Range Birds The native woodlands that once covered the Mount Lofty Ranges landscape has been reduced to about one-tenth of their former extent. This loss of habitat is currently affecting our woodland. A total population size of five-hundred is more than likely to become extinct. twenty more species will eventually disappear about one hundred and twenty almost fifty would eventually become extinct in the Mount Lofty Ranges. This dramatic loss of habitat has devastating implications for many native birds that depends on it for survival of those still found. There are many effects on these birds, one of them is that many of the birds are dying off. The birds in the Mount Lofty Ranges are affected by the loss of habitat, that they

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