Nature conservation

Threatened species

Eastern Hooded Dotterel - Ocean: Distribution and vegetation associations

Conservation status in NSW: Critically Endangered
Commonwealth status: Vulnerable
Last updated: 13 Oct 2021

Distribution of the species within this region

The Eastern Hooded Dotterel is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Ocean Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Batemans Shelf Known None
Hawkesbury Shelf Known None
South Pacific Ocean Predicted None
Twofold Shelf Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Eastern Hooded Dotterel - Ocean is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
      • 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4028 Estuarine Swamp Oak Twig-rush Forest
      • 4027 Estuarine Swamp Oak-Mangrove Forest
      • 4056 Southern Estuarine Swamp Paperbark Creekflat Scrub
  • 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
      • 3966 Foredune Swale Marsh
      • 3974 Pambula Dune Swale Red Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 4098 South Coast Dune Sea Spray Wetland
      • 3957 South Coast Sands Shrub Swamp
      • 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
      • 3976 Southern Sands Freshwater Lagoon Wetland
      • 3977 Sydney Coastal Headland Lagoon Sedgeland
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    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3903 Far Southeast Lowland Heath Swamp
      • 3905 Jervis Bay Headland Dune Wet Heath
  • Grasslands
    • Maritime Grasslands
      • 3407 Central Headland Grassland
      • 3409 Southern Headland Grassland
      • 3410 Spinifex Strandline Grassland
      • 3411 Tollgate Island Littoral Scrub
  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
      • 3789 Coastal Headland Clay Heath
      • 3792 Far Southeast Headland Scrub
    • South Coast Heaths
      • 3815 Eurobodalla Headland Heath
      • 3816 Far Southeast Coastal Lowland Heath
    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
      • 3810 Southern Sydney Rockplate Heath
      • 3811 Sydney Coastal Headland Cliff Scrub
      • 3812 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Headland Heath
  • Saline wetlands
    • Mangrove Swamps
      • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
    • Saltmarshes
      • 4092 Coastal Headland Sea Spray Grassland
      • 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
      • 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
      • 4096 Prickly Couch-Sea Rush Saltmarsh
      • 4097 Samphire Saltmarsh
      • 4102 South Coast Bracelet Honey-myrtle Sea Rush Saltmarsh
      • 4040 South Coast Selliera-Sea Rush Swamp Oak Saltmarsh
      • 4101 South Coast Spear-grass Saltmarsh
      • 4103 Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh
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