Black-tailed Godwit - NSW South Western Slopes: Distribution and vegetation associations

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable

Commonwealth status: Endangered

Distribution of the species within this region

IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Capertee Valley	Predicted	None
Inland Slopes	Predicted	None
Lower Slopes	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
  • 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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