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Threatened species

Grey Falcon - Brigalow Belt South: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Falco hypoleucos
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerableexternal link
Commonwealth status: Vulnerableexternal link
Last updated: 25 Nov 2022

Distribution of the species within this region

The Grey Falcon is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Brigalow Belt South Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Liverpool Plains Known None
Moonie-Barwon Interfluve Predicted None
Narrandool Known None
Northern Outwash Predicted None
Pilliga Known None
Pilliga Outwash Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Grey Falcon - Brigalow Belt South is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
    • Gibber Transition Shrublands
      • 197 Black Box - Gidgee - chenopod low open woodland wetland on alluvial clay soils in the Culgoa River region of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Mulga Lands Bioregion
      • 118 Gidgee chenopod woodland on red-brown clays in the semi-arid (hot) climate zone mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion.
      • 131 Gidgee of the intermittent watercourses or the arid zone (mainly Channel Country Bioregion and Simpson Strezlecki Dunefields Bioregion)
      • 137 Whitewood - Western Rosewood low woodland of the NSW north western plains
    • North-west Plain Shrublands
      • 229 Derived mixed shrubland on loamy-clay soils in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 144 Leopardwood low woodland mainly on clayey soils in the semi-arid zone
      • 125 Mulga - Ironwood shrubland on loams and clays mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
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    • Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
      • 140 Broombush shrubland in dunefields of the arid climate zone
      • 129 Cabbage-tree Wattle shrubland of the inland plains and drainage lines
      • 199 Hooked Needlewood - Needlewood - Mulga - Turpentine Bush open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid plains
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    • Stony Desert Mulga Shrublands
      • 127 Bastard Mulga tall open shrubland of the semi-arid (hot) and arid climate zones
      • 60 Black Oak - Western Rosewood - bluebush/saltbush low sparse woodland on gravel downs in the arid climate zone
      • 169 Curly Mallee - bluebush open woodland of the arid zone
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  • Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
    • Aeolian Chenopod Shrublands
      • 153 Black Bluebush low open shrubland of the alluvial plains and sandplains of the arid and semi-arid zones
      • 225 Bladder Saltbush low open chenopod shrubland of the Strzelecki dunefields of the arid climate zone
      • 222 Low Bluebush - Bladder Saltbush open shrubland of the arid zone
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    • Gibber Chenopod Shrublands
      • 156 Bladder Saltbush shrubland on stony plains and downs of the arid zone
      • 155 Bluebush shrubland on stony rises and downs in the arid and semi-arid zones
      • 150 Bottlewasher - Copperburr grassland of the arid zone
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    • Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
      • 196 Australian Boxthorn open shrubland in the semi-arid or arid climate zones
      • 254 Black Oak - Bladder Saltbush on light clays in the arid zone
      • 216 Black Roly Poly low open shrubland of the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
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  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4023 Coastal Valleys Riparian Forest
      • 4025 Cumberland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
      • 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3987 Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 3989 Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
      • 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
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    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 84 River Oak - Rough-barked Apple - red gum - box riparian tall woodland (wetland) of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1270 Tea-tree shrubland of drainage areas of the slopes and tablelands
    • Inland Riverine Forests
      • 112 Black Tea-tree - River Oak - Wilga riparian low forest/shrubland wetland of rich soil depressions in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 356 Blakely's Red Gum x Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall riparian woodland, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 10 River Red Gum - Black Box woodland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
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  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3960 Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
      • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
      • 3961 Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
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    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3912 Northern Sand Swale Paperbark Sedge Shrubland
      • 3915 Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
    • Inland Floodplain Shrublands
      • 375 Budda Pea - Channel Millet ephemeral reedland wetland on floodplains in north-western NSW
      • 24 Canegrass swamp tall grassland wetland of drainage depressions, lakes and pans of the inland plains
      • 115 Eurah shrubland of inland floodplains
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    • Inland Floodplain Swamps
      • 66 Artesian Mound Spring sedgeland wetland mainly of the Mulga Lands Bioregion
      • 181 Common Reed - Bushy Groundsel aquatic tall reedland grassland wetland of inland river systems
      • 182 Cumbungi rushland wetland of shallow semi-permanent water bodies and inland watercourses
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    • Montane Lakes
      • 3978 Morass Margin Shallow Wetlands
      • 3979 Northern Basalt Benches Intermittent Swamps
      • 3980 Southern Lacustrine Herbfield
      • 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands
  • Grasslands
    • Riverine Plain Grasslands
      • 46 Curly Windmill Grass - speargrass - wallaby grass grassland on alluvial clay and loam on the Hay Plain, Riverina Bioregion
      • 165 Derived corkscrew grass grassland/forbland on sandplains and plains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
      • 44 Forb-rich Speargrass - Windmill Grass - White Top grassland of the Riverina Bioregion
      • 45 Plains Grass grassland on alluvial mainly clay soils in the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 1203 Speargrass natural grassland of the sandplains of the Murray Darling Bioregion
    • Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
      • 50 Couch Grass grassland wetland on river banks and floodplains of inland river systems
      • 43 Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
      • 214 Native Millet - Cup Grass grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
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    • Western Slopes Grasslands
      • 250 Derived tussock grassland of the central western plains and lower slopes of NSW
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
      • 628 Carbeen +/- Coolabah grassy woodland on floodplain clay loam soil on north-western NSW floodplains, mainly Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
      • 248 Mixed box eucalypt woodland on low sandy-loam rises on alluvial plains in central western NSW
      • 251 Mixed Eucalypt woodlands of floodplains in the southern-eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
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  • Saline wetlands
    • Inland Saline lakes
      • 166 Disturbed annual saltbush forbland on clay plains and inundation zones mainly of south-western NSW
      • 189 Ephemeral forbland wetland of low-saline lake-beds of the arid and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
      • 253 Gypseous shrubland on rises in the semi-arid and arid plains
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    • Mangrove Swamps
      • 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
    • Saltmarshes
      • 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
      • 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
      • 4096 Prickly Couch-Sea Rush Saltmarsh
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  • Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
    • Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands
      • 35 Brigalow - Belah open forest / woodland on alluvial often gilgaied clay from Pilliga Scrub to Goondiwindi, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 629 Brigalow - Bladder Saltbush open woodland to tall open shrubland in the Come-By-Chance region, Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 31 Brigalow - Gidgee open woodland on clay plains west of the Culgoa River, Mulga Lands Bioregion
      • 29 Brigalow open woodland on clay soils in the Nyngan-Bourke-Enngonia regions of the NSW north-western plains
    • Inland Floodplain Woodlands
      • 13 Black Box - Lignum woodland wetland of the inner floodplains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 630 Black Box - Silver Saltbush chenopod open woodland on terrace rises on alluvial plains in the lower Darling River and lower Murray River region of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 16 Black Box grassy open woodland wetland of rarely flooded depressions in south western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 15 Black Box open woodland wetland with chenopod understorey mainly on the outer floodplains in south-western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 208 River Red Gum low woodland of rocky gorges and creeks in the Cobar Peneplain
    • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
      • 55 Belah woodland on alluvial plains and low rises in the central NSW wheatbelt to Pilliga and Liverpool Plains regions.
      • 38 Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
      • 37 Black Box woodland wetland on NSW central and northern floodplains including the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
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    • Riverine Plain Woodlands
      • 27 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 26 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
  • Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Desert Woodlands
      • 100 Desert Bloodwood - Mulga low woodland of the semi-arid plains
      • 133 Western Bloodwood - Whitewood low open woodland on Tibooburra Granite
    • Dune Mallee Woodlands
      • 172 Deep sand mallee of irregular dunefields of the semi-arid (warm) zone
      • 191 Snap and Rattle Mallee - Moonah open mallee shrubland in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 171 Spinifex linear dune mallee mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
      • 257 Dwyer's Red Gum - Currawang grassy low woodland of the central western plains of NSW
      • 184 Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Currawang low shrub-grass woodland of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 176 Green Mallee - White Cypress Pine very tall mallee woodland on gravel rises mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
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    • North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
      • 71 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - River Red Gum - bloodwood tall woodland on sandy loam alluvial and eolian soils in the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
      • 376 Mixed scrub low open woodland on sand rises and dunes on floodplains in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
      • 20 Buloke - Moonah - Black Box open woodland on sandy rises of semi arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 19 Cypress Pine woodland of source-bordering dunes mainly on the Murray and Murrumbidgee River floodplains
      • 22 Semi-arid shrubby Buloke - Slender Cypress Pine woodland, far south-western NSW
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    • Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
      • 142 Broombush shrubland in the mallee landscapes of the temperate and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
      • 170 Chenopod sandplain mallee woodland/shrubland of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
      • 474 Dwyer's Red Gum - she oak mallee shrubland on eolian sand in the Gilgandra region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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    • Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
      • 59 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Leopardwood low open woodland on sandplain and sandy flats in semi arid (hot) and arid climate zones
      • 57 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Wilga woodland of central NSW including the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 221 Black Oak - Pearl Bluebush open woodland of the sandplains of the semi-arid warm and arid climate zones
      • 58 Black Oak - Western Rosewood open woodland on deep sandy loams mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 252 Sugarwood open woodland of the inland plains mainly Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands
      • 117 Buck Spinifex shrubby hummock grassland / Coolabah Apple - Silver-leaved Ironbark open woodland on deep sand in the Enngonia to Cumborah regions, north western NSW
      • 192 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Poplar Box +/- Ironwood shrub - grass woodland on rises in the north-western plains of NSW
      • 146 Whitewood low open woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and north-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Western Peneplain Woodlands
      • 135 Coobah - Western Rosewood low open tall shrubland or woodland mainly on outwash areas in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
      • 108 Gum Coolabah - Mulga open woodland on gravel ridges of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 134 Ironwood woodland of the semi-arid plains
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