Black-tailed Godwit - Murray Darling Depression: 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 Murray Darling Depression Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Darling Depression	Predicted	None
South Olary Plain	Predicted	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Black-tailed Godwit - Murray Darling Depression 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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