Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat Important Bird Area

Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat IBA

Location of the Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat Important Bird Area in Australia

The Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat Important Bird Area comprises a 9743 km² tract of

Victoria

.

Description

The site incorporates a large area of contiguous mallee habitat. It overlaps the following

ephemeral lakes connected by Outlet Creek, the northern section of the Wimmera River. The lakes only fill when the river over-fills Lake Hindmarsh, to the south of Lake Albacutya

The site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports populations of malleefowl, black-eared miners, mallee emu-wrens, red-lored whistlers, regent parrots and purple-gaped honeyeaters.^[2] The IBA is also thought to support up to ten pairs of Australian bustards and western whipbirds, the latter being one of very few remaining inland populations of the eastern mallee subspecies P. n. leucogaster.^[1]

^ ^a ^b "Important Bird and Biodiversity Area factsheet: Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat". BirdLife International. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
^ "IBA: Wyperfeld, Big Desert and Ngarkat". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2011.

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