Nature conservation

Threatened species

Hall's Babbler - Murray Darling Depression: 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 Murray Darling Depression Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Darling Depression Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Hall's Babbler - 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 (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