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Black-tailed Godwit - Mulga Lands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Limosa limosa

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable

Commonwealth status: Endangered

Last updated: 26 Feb 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Black-tailed Godwit is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Mulga Lands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Cuttaburra-Paroo	Predicted	None
Kerribree Basin	Predicted	None
Nebine Plains	Predicted	None
Paroo Overflow	Predicted	None
Paroo-Darling Sands	Predicted	None
Urisino Sandplains	Predicted	None
Warrego Plains	Predicted	None
Warrego Sands	Predicted	None
West Warrego	Predicted	None
White Cliffs Plateau	Predicted	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Black-tailed Godwit - Mulga Lands is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

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
- Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
  - 4023 Coastal Valleys Riparian Forest
  - 4025 Cumberland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
  - 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4034 Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
  - 4044 Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
  - 4047 Northern Swamp Mahogany-Bottlebrush Swamp 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
  - 3993 Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
  - 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
  - 4007 Northern Sands Paperbark Sedge Low Forest
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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
  - 3963 Estuarine Reedland
  - 3964 Far North Floodplain Fern-Forb Wetland
  - 3965 Far North Floodplain Forb-Sedge Wetland
  - 3973 Far North Floodplain Paperbark Sedge Wetland
  - 3966 Foredune Swale Marsh
  - 3967 Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
  - 3968 Northern Sands Baloskion-Machaerina Wetland
  - 3969 Northern Sands Machaerina-Eleocharis Sedgeland
  - 3970 Northern Sands Water Couch Wetland
  - 3971 Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
  - 3974 Pambula Dune Swale Red Gum Swamp Woodland
  - 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
  - 3976 Southern Sands Freshwater Lagoon Wetland
  - 1738 Spirodella freshwater wetland
  - 3977 Sydney Coastal Headland Lagoon Sedgeland
  - 3972 Sydney Creekflat Wetland
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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
  - 115 Eurah shrubland of inland floodplains
  - 161 Golden Goosefoot shrubland wetland in swamps of the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) zones
  - 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
  - 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
  - 226 Cyperus - Typha sedgeland wetland of the arid zone climate zone
  - 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)
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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

Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Marine environments
  - 99994 Dune and Shorelines
  - 99995 Oceans
- Terrestrial saline environments
  - 99998 non vegetated terrestrial saline environments
- Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
  - 99996 Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

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
  - 149 Neverfail Grass - ephemeral herbaceous grassland forbland of interdune claypans mainly in the arid climate zone
  - 62 Samphire saline shrubland/forbland wetland of lake beds and lake margins in the arid and semi-arid (hot) zones
  - 198 Sparse saltbush forbland wetland of the irregularly inundated lakes of the arid and semi-arid (persistently hot) climate zones
  - 162 Sturts Pigface sparse forbland of saline soils of the arid zone
  - 263 Submerged flora of saline permanent wetland of the arid zone
  - 262 Submerged flora of saline temporary wetland of the arid zone
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- Mangrove Swamps
  - 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4140 Far North Mangrove 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
  - 4097 Samphire Saltmarsh
  - 4101 South Coast Spear-grass Saltmarsh
  - 4103 Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh
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Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
- North-west Floodplain Woodlands
  - 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.
  - 39 Coolabah - River Coobah - Lignum woodland wetland of frequently flooded floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 87 Poplar Box - Coolabah floodplain woodland on light clay soil mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 41 River Red Gum open woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses mainly of the arid climate zone
  - 200 River Red Gum woodland wetland of lake fringes in the semi-arid (hot) and arid climate zones
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