Hastings-Macleay Important Bird Area
The Hastings-Macleay Important Bird Area is a 1148 km2 tract of land stretching for 100 km along the
ephemeral wetlands with coastal swamp forests. It is mostly cattle-grazed but contains large blocks of state forest, protected areas and tea-tree plantations.[1]
Birds
The land was identified by BirdLife International as an IBA because it regularly supports significant numbers of the endangered swift parrot, regent honeyeater and Australasian bittern, and probably over 1% of the world population of sharp-tailed sandpipers.[2]
References
- ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Hastings-Macleay. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 05/07/2011.
- ^ "IBA: Hastings-Macleay". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
31°13′05″S 152°54′28″E / 31.21806°S 152.90778°E
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