Simpson Desert Important Bird Area
The Simpson Desert Important Bird Area comprises some 22,848 km2 of land within the Simpson Desert in south-western Queensland and north-eastern South Australia. It consists of five large contiguous reserves subject to little grazing pressure and good habitat management that are either known, or likely, to provide suitable habitat for Eyrean grasswrens.
Description
The extent of IBA overlaps land including the following
The site contains parts of the spasmodically flooded
Criteria for nomination as an IBA
The Important Bird Area (IBA) has been identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports a large population of Eyrean grasswrens as well as small numbers of plains-wanderers. It also contains good numbers of grey falcons, Australian bustards, inland dotterels, banded whitefaces, grey-headed, grey, black and pied honeyeaters, gibberbirds, chirruping and chiming wedgebills, cinnamon quail-thrushes and painted finches.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Important Bird Areas factsheet: Simpson Desert". BirdLife International. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "IBA: Simpson Desert". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
25°00′02″S 138°11′23″E / 25.00056°S 138.18972°E
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