Freckled Duck - Channel Country: Distribution and vegetation associations

Distribution of the species within this region

IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Bulloo	Known	None
Bulloo Dunefields	Predicted	None
Central Depression	Known	None
Core Ranges	Predicted	None
Sturt Stony Desert	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

• Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
  • Aeolian Chenopod Shrublands
    • 225 Bladder Saltbush low open chenopod shrubland of the Strzelecki dunefields of the arid climate zone

• Forested wetlands
  • Eastern Riverine Forests
    • 42 River Red Gum / River Oak riparian woodland wetland in the Hunter Valley
    • 1270 Tea-tree shrubland of drainage areas of the slopes and tablelands
  • Inland Riverine Forests
    • 10 River Red Gum - Black Box woodland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 11 River Red Gum - Lignum very tall open forest or woodland wetland on floodplains of semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 8 River Red Gum - Warrego Grass - Couch Grass riparian tall woodland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 7 River Red Gum - Warrego Grass - herbaceous riparian tall open forest wetland mainly in the Riverina Bioregion
    • 5 River Red Gum herbaceous-grassy very tall open forest wetland on inner floodplains in the lower slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and the eastern Riverina Bioregion.
    • 78 River Red Gum riparian tall woodland / open forest wetland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 249 River Red Gum swampy woodland wetland on cowals (lakes) and associated flood channels in central NSW
    • 36 River Red Gum tall to very tall open forest / woodland wetland on rivers on floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 2 River Red Gum-sedge dominated very tall open forest in frequently flooded forest wetland along major rivers and floodplains in south-western NSW
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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
    • 3962 Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
    • 3967 Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
    • 3968 Northern Sands Baloskion-Machaerina Wetland
    • 3969 Northern Sands Machaerina-Eleocharis Sedgeland
    • 3971 Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
    • 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
    • 1738 Spirodella freshwater wetland
    • 3972 Sydney Creekflat Wetland
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  • 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
    • 161 Golden Goosefoot shrubland wetland in swamps of the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) zones
    • 17 Lignum shrubland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) plains (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 25 Lignum shrubland wetland on floodplains and depressions of the Mulga Lands Bioregion, Channel Country Bioregion in the arid and semi-arid (hot) climate zones
    • 247 Lignum shrubland wetland on regularly flooded alluvial depressions in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 160 Nitre Goosefoot shrubland wetland on clays of the inland floodplains
    • 241 River Coobah swamp wetland on the floodplains of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 261 Swamp Paper-bark shrubland wetland ringing depressions in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
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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
    • 226 Cyperus - Typha sedgeland wetland of the arid zone climate zone
    • 360 Gilgai wetland mosaic in the southern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • 205 Marsh Club-rush wetland very tall sedgeland of inland watercourses, mainly Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
    • 416 Pilliga tank gilgai wetland sedgeland rushland, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 465 Reedland - tussock grass - segeland fen swampy wetland of impeded creeks in southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 400 Riparian sedgeland rushland wetland of the Pilliga to Goonoo sandstone forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 447 Sedgeland - forbland wetland in depressions on valley flats of the NSW North-western Slopes
    • 361 Sedgeland fen wetland of spring-fed or runoff-fed creeks in the southern Pilliga - Warrumbungle Range region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 53 Shallow freshwater wetland sedgeland in depressions on floodplains on inland alluivial plains and floodplains
    • 12 Shallow marsh wetland of regularly flooded depressions on floodplains mainly in the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 410 Swamp Paper-bark very tall shrubland wetland on sodic soils in the Pilliga Scrub region
    • 1291 Warrego Grass - Nardoo wet grassland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • 204 Water Couch marsh grassland wetland of frequently flooded inland watercourses
    • 364 Wetland on sodic soils in the Yetman-Yelarbon region, mainly Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Montane Bogs and Fens
    • 3932 Central and Southern Tableland Swamp Meadow Complex
  • Montane Lakes
    • 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands

• Grasslands
  • Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
    • 50 Couch Grass grassland wetland on river banks and floodplains of inland river systems
    • 242 Rats Tail Couch sod grassland wetland of inland floodplains

• Miscellaneous ecosystems
  • Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
    • 99996 Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

• Saline wetlands
  • Inland Saline lakes
    • 189 Ephemeral forbland wetland of low-saline lake-beds of the arid and semi-arid (warm) climate zones

• Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
  • 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)