Nature conservation

Threatened species

Hall's Babbler - Mulga Lands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Pomatostomus halli
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 20 Dec 2023

Distribution of the species within this region

The Hall's Babbler 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 predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Cuttaburra-Paroo Known None
Kerribree Basin Known None
Nebine Plains Known None
Paroo Overflow Predicted None
Paroo-Darling Sands Known None
Urisino Sandplains Predicted None
Warrego Plains Known None
Warrego Sands Known None
West Warrego Known None
White Cliffs Plateau Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Hall's Babbler - 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 (Acacia sub-formation)
    • Gibber Transition Shrublands
      • 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
      • 125 Mulga - Ironwood shrubland on loams and clays mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 264 Supplejack woodland of the NSW north-western semi-arid plains
    • Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
      • 220 Purple Wood wattle shrubland of the arid zone sandplains
      • 119 Sandplain Mulga tall shrubland - open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid climate zones
      • 69 White Cypress Pine - Mulga shrubland on plains and sandplains in the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) climate zones.
    • 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
      • 138 Desert Paper-bark shrubland wetland of semi-arid and arid climate zone watercourses.
      • 194 Heather Bush - Mulga - Umbrella Mulga open shrubland on gravelly rises mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
      • 130 Horse Mulga - Umbrella Mulga shrubland on ranges in the arid and semi-arid climate zones
      • 123 Mulga - Dead Finish on stony hills mainly of the Channel Country Bioregion and Broken Hill Complex Bioregion
      • 120 Mulga shrubland on stony rises in the arid and semi-arid climate zones, mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
      • 359 Porcupine Grass - Red Mallee - Gum Coolabah hummock grassland / low sparse woodland on metamorphic ranges on the Barrier Range, Broken Hill Complex Bioregion
      • 68 White Cypress Pine - Mulga low open woodland on the stony ranges of the arid zone (far north western NSW).
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  • 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
    • Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
      • 218 Grey Mallee - Mulga shrubland of the north-western Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 104 Gum Coolabah woodland on sedimentary substrates mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 106 White Cypress Pine - Mulga low woodland on siliceous rocky ranges mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
    • Western Peneplain Woodlands
      • 134 Ironwood woodland of the semi-arid plains
      • 109 Poplar Box - Mulga - Ironwood woodland on red loam soils on plains in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion and north-eastern Mulga Lands Bioregion