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Threatened species

Black-breasted Button-quail - Other State: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Turnix melanogaster

Conservation status in NSW: Critically Endangered

Commonwealth status: Vulnerable

Last updated: 07 Jun 2021

Distribution of the species within this region

The Black-breasted Button-quail is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Other State Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
QLD	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Black-breasted Button-quail - Other State is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
- Central Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3509 Capertee Escarpment Slaty Gum-Ironbark Forest
- Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3417 Baryulgil Serpentinite Woodland
  - 3418 Clarence Foothills Bloodwood-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3421 Clarence Sandstone Pink Bloodwood Grassy Forest
  - 3422 Clarence Sandstone Rises Spotted Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3424 Drake Hills Spotted Gum Forest
  - 3425 Far North Hinterland Swamp Turpentine-Apple Forest
  - 3426 Mid Clarence Valley Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3427 Northern Hinterland Hills Bloodwood-Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3428 Northern Lowland Red Gum-Swamp Turpentine Grassy Forest
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- Hunter-Macleay Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3431 Central Hunter Ironbark Grassy Woodland
  - 3432 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3433 Hunter Coast Foothills Spotted Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3435 Hunter Coast Lowland Flats Damp Forest
  - 3437 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Dry Forest
  - 3436 Hunter Coast Sandy Creekflat Low Paperbark Scrub
  - 3434 Hunter Coast White Mahogany Low Forest
  - 3438 Hunter Escarpment Footslopes Ironbark Forest
  - 3439 Hunter Escarpment Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
  - 4158 Hunter Escarpment Pokolbin Ironbark Woodland
  - 3441 Lower Hunter Clay Heath
  - 3442 Lower Hunter Lowland Ironbark-Paperbark Forest
  - 3443 Lower Hunter Spotted Gum Scrubby Transition Forest
  - 3444 Lower Hunter Spotted Gum-Ironbark Forest
  - 3445 Lower North Coastal Hills Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3446 Lower North Foothills Ironbark-Box-Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3447 Shoalhaven Foothills Spotted Gum Forest
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- New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3500 Cathedral Rock Granite Peppermint-Gum Forest
  - 3501 Eastern New England Ranges Blackbutt Forest
  - 3502 Maryland Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3503 Northeast New England Granites Stringybark Forest
  - 3504 Northeast New England Ranges Messmate Forest
  - 3505 Northeast New England Stringybark Grassy Forest
  - 3506 Stanthorpe Plateau Flats Gum-Stringybark Woodland
  - 3507 Tenterfield Plateau Stringybark Sheltered Forest
  - 3508 Western Guy Fawkes Plateau White Gum Flats Forest
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- Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3454 Chandlers Creek Dry Grassy Forest
  - 3455 Clarence Gorges Granite Grassy Forest
  - 3456 Clarence Gorges Grey Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
  - 3457 Curricabark Serpentinite Mallee Spinifex Scrub
  - 3458 Gibraltar Range Gorge Stringybark Forest
  - 3459 Koreelah Ironbark Dry Grassy Forest
  - 3467 Lower North Serpentinite Red Gum Woodland
  - 3470 Macleay Gorges Riverflat Grassy Forest
  - 3461 Macleay Gorges Stringybark-Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3462 Northern Gorges Blakes Wattle Rock Scrub
  - 3463 Northern Gorges Granite Stringybark-Apple Grassy Forest
  - 3464 Northern Gorges Grey Gum-Tallowwood Grassy Forest
  - 3465 Northern Gorges Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3466 Northern Gorges Red Gum-Stringybark Forest
  - 3460 Northern Gorges Sheltered Grassy Forest
  - 3468 Nymboida Rhyolite Moist Forest
  - 3471 Upper Guy Fawkes Stringybark-Red Gum Grassy Forest
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- North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
  - 3513 Kaputar White Box-Apple Sheltered Forest
  - 3514 Nandewar Hills Apple-White Box Shrub-Grass Woodland
  - 3515 Nandewar Serpentinite Red Stringybark Woodland
  - 3516 Northwest Black Pine-Ironbark Forest
  - 3517 Northwest Creekflat Blakelys Red Gum Shrub-Grass Forest
  - 3518 Northwest Pine-Ironbark Grassy Woodland
  - 3519 Northwest Ranges Rocky Tumbledown Gum Scrub
  - 3522 Northwest White Box Spinifex Woodland
  - 3521 Northwest White Box Woodland
  - 3523 Northwest White Pine-Box Woodland
  - 3524 Ulan Plutonic Hills Dry Forest
  - 3525 Upper Hunter Box-Blakelys Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3526 Warrumbungle Rockplate Scrub
  - 3512 Western Hunter Basalt Cap Woodland
  - 3527 Western Hunter Broombush Grassy Scrub
  - 3528 Western Hunter Flats Apple-Gum Shrub Forest
  - 3532 Western Hunter Ironbark-Box Forest
  - 3529 Western Hunter Sandy Colluvial Gully Forest
  - 3530 Western Hunter Sandy Riparian Red Gum Shrub Forest
  - 3531 Western Hunter Trachyte Spinifex Forest
  - 3511 Western New England White Pine-Tumbledown Gum Woodland
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- Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3510 Capertee Slopes Stringybark-Box Forest

Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3672 Carrai-Werrikimbe Blackbutt Dry Shrub Forest
  - 3673 Chaelundi-Mann River Granite Scrub Woodland
  - 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
  - 3675 Far North Peaks Scrub Woodland
  - 3677 Lower North Escarpment Rocky Shrub Woodland
  - 3678 Mount Munningyundo Rocky Shrubland
  - 3679 Northeast New England Ranges Blackbutt Dry Forest
  - 3681 Nymboida Rocky Slopes Low Forest
  - 3683 Timbarra Granite Blackbutt Forest
  - 3684 Timbarra Granite Strawberry Gum-Stringybark Woodland
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- Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3697 Bingara Tumbledown Gum Spinifex Woodland
  - 3713 Macintyre Hills Ironbark Shrub Forest
  - 3707 Mole River Blackbutt Woodland
  - 3708 Mole River Hills Wallangarra White Gum Woodland
  - 3717 Mole River Tumbledown Gum-Ironbark Shrub Woodland
  - 3709 Moonbi Range Rocky Granite Woodland
  - 3699 Moredun Ranges Stringybark Exposed Forest
  - 3711 Northern New England Orange Gum Exposed Woodland
  - 3701 Northwest New England Creekflat Blakelys Red Gum Forest
  - 3703 Northwest New England Felsic Ironbark-Red Gum Gully Forest
  - 3700 Northwest New England Granite Blackbutt-Apple Forest
  - 3706 Northwest New England Laterite McKies Stringybark Forest
  - 3702 Northwest New England Ranges Caleys Ironbark Woodland
  - 3718 Northwest New England Rocky Riparian Forest
  - 3704 Northwest New England Stringybark-Pine Exposed Forest
  - 3716 Northwest New England Tumbledown Gum-Ironbark Exposed Forest
  - 3714 Pindari Ironbark-Pine Exposed Woodland
  - 3715 Pindari Orange Gum Rocky Woodland
  - 3720 Torrington Riparian Forest-Scrub
  - 3722 Western New England Box-Tumbledown Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3724 Western New England Caleys Ironbark-Tumbledown Gum Forest
  - 3698 Western New England Granite Orange Gum Gully Woodland
  - 3726 Western New England Granite Pine-Stringybark-Gum Forest
  - 3705 Western New England Hills Apple-Stringybark Forest
  - 3728 Western New England Hills Blackbutt-Stringybark Forest
  - 3710 Western New England Hills Orange Gum-Ironbark Forest
  - 3723 Western New England Panic-Wiregrass Grassland
  - 3725 Western New England Ranges Orange Gum-Blackbutt Forest
  - 3727 Western New England Silvertop Stringybark Forest
  - 3729 Western New England Youmans Stringybark Shrub Forest
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- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3761 Northwest Felsic Rocky Gum Woodland

Forested wetlands
- Eastern Riverine Forests
  - 3020 Northern Hinterland River Oak Sheltered Forest

Freshwater wetlands
- Montane Bogs and Fens
  - 4164 New England Peppermint Swamp Margin Woodland

Grassy woodlands
- New England Grassy Woodlands
  - 3351 Armidale Creekflat Snow Gum Woodland-Scrub
  - 3352 Armidale Quartz Hills Stringybark Forest
  - 3353 Guyra Silvertop Stringybark Moist Forest
  - 3354 Liverpool Range Box-Silvertop Stringybark Forest
  - 3350 Macleay Gorge Rims Shrub Woodland
  - 3355 Moonbi Range Stringybark-Yellow Box Forest
  - 3358 New England Fuzzy Box Grassy Forest
  - 3359 New England Hills Stringybark-Box Woodland
  - 3356 Northwest Ranges Apple-Stringybark Sheltered Forest
  - 3361 Tenterfield Plateau Stringybark-Apple Forest
  - 3363 Western New England Blakelys Red Gum-Box Grassy Forest
  - 3357 Western New England Flats Apple-Box Grassy Forest
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- Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
  - 3342 Mount Kaputar Montane Box Forest
  - 3343 Mount Kaputar Montane Gum Forest
  - 3344 New England Ribbon Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3345 New England Snow Gum-Black Sally Woodland
  - 3346 Northeast Plateau Snow Gum Valley Woodland
  - 3347 Southern Tableland Creekflat Ribbon Gum Forest
  - 3348 Southern Tableland Granites Ribbon Gum Grassy Forest
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- Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
  - 3393 Northwest Basalt Box Plains Grass Woodland
  - 3394 Northwest Basalt Grassland-Woodland Complex
  - 3395 Northwest Elevated White Box Woodland
  - 3398 Northwest Slopes Box-Apple Woodland
  - 3396 Northwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Woodland
  - 3397 Northwest Yellow Box Grassy Woodland
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Rainforests
- Cool Temperate Rainforests
  - 3048 Border Ranges Antarctic Beech Rainforest
- Dry Rainforests
  - 3055 Carnham Dry Rainforest
  - 3056 Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
  - 3057 Chaelundi-Carrai Rocky Peaks Myrtle Scrub
  - 3059 Clarence Lowland Riparian Red Gum Wet Forest
  - 3061 Clarence-Richmond Riverine Rainforest
  - 3065 Far North Basalt Gully Dry Rainforest
  - 3066 Far North Floodplain Dry Rainforest
  - 3068 Far North Grey Myrtle Riparian Dry Rainforest
  - 3070 Far North Hinterland Kamala-Coogera Dry Rainforest
  - 3064 Far North Hoop Pine Dry Rainforest
  - 3072 Glenugie Peak Dry Rainforest
  - 3074 Hunter Coast Lowland Grey Myrtle Wet Forest
  - 3120 Hunter-Peel Ranges Dry Rainforest
  - 3089 Lower North Waterhousea Riparian Rainforest
  - 3469 Macleay Gorges Low Scrubby Dry Rainforest
  - 3097 Northern Escarpment Dry Rainforest
  - 3098 Northern Escarpment Grey Myrtle Gully Rainforest
  - 3099 Northern Escarpment Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
  - 3101 Northern Hinterland Shatterwood Dry Rainforest
  - 3103 Nymboida Water Gum-Myrtle Riparian Forest
  - 3112 Tenterfield Hills Dry Rainforest
  - 3113 Timbarra Sheltered Gorges Vine Thicket
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- Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
  - 3026 Comboyne Plateau Warm Temperate Rainforest
  - 3027 Gibraltar Range Tea-tree-Phebalium Shrubland
  - 3031 Northern Escarpment Coachwood-Beech Rainforest
  - 3032 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Booyong-Corkwood Rainforest
  - 3033 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
  - 3034 Northern Gorges Riparian Rainforest
  - 3035 Northern Ranges Coachwood Warm Temperate Rainforest
  - 3042 Tenterfield Rocky Gully Rainforest
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- Subtropical Rainforests
  - 3003 Border Ranges Black Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3004 Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
  - 3011 Far North Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
  - 845 Giant Stinging Tree - Fig dry subtropical rainforest of the NSW North Coast Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 3001 Lismore Basalt Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3002 Lower Richmond Hills Dry-Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3015 Lower Richmond Sandflat Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3016 Lower Tweed Hills Subtropical Dry Rainforest
  - 3017 Mid North Lowland Floodplain Rainforest
  - 3019 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3100 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Dendrocnide Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3021 Northern Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
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- Western Vine Thickets
  - 3119 Upper Hunter White Box Vine Thicket

Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
- Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3069 Far North Hinterland Grey Box-Grey Gum Wet Forest
  - 3233 Far North Hinterland Grey Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3240 Lower North Escarpment Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3094 Mount Pikapene Steel Box Wet Forest
  - 3248 Northern Blackbutt-Turpentine Shrub Forest
  - 3249 Northern Bloodwood-Ironbark Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3250 Northern Foothills Blackbutt Grassy Forest
  - 3251 Northern Gorges Diverse Grassy Forest
  - 3167 Northern Hinterland Blackbutt-Forest Oak Wet Forest
  - 3252 Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Mahogany Grassy Forest
  - 3253 Northern Hinterland Grey Gum-Turpentine Mesic Forest
  - 3254 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Forest Oak Grassy Forest
  - 3170 Northern Hinterland White Mahogany Moist Grassy Forest
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- Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3277 Carrai Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3278 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Grassy Forest
  - 3279 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Forest
  - 3280 Far North Escarpment Gorges Blackbutt Forest
  - 3281 Guyra Granitoids Gum-Messmate Forest
  - 3286 Northern Escarpment Blackbutt Cool Moist Forest
  - 3287 Northern Escarpment Messmate Cool Wet Forest
  - 3288 Northern Escarpment Messmate Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3289 West Barrington Granitoid Outcrop Forest
  - 3290 Western Guy Fawkes Plateau Moist Gum Forest
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Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3139 Border Ranges Brush Box-Tallowwood Wet Forest
  - 3058 Clarence Gorges Rocky Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3142 Clarence Lowland Sandstone Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3060 Clarence Lowland Waterhousea Riparian Forest
  - 3148 Far North Brush Box-Walnut Wet Forest
  - 3067 Far North Floodplain Wet Layered Forest
  - 3084 Lower North Brown Myrtle Wet Forest
  - 3160 Lower North Turpentine-Tallowwood-Grey Gum Forest
  - 3161 Mid North Hinterland Wet Forest
  - 3165 Northern Brush Box Subtropical Wet Forest
  - 3166 Northern Escarpment Brush Box-Tallowwood-Maple Wet Forest
  - 3168 Northern Hinterland Brush Box-Quince Wet Forest
  - 3169 Northern Hinterland Tallowwood-Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3102 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine Wet Forest
  - 3171 Northern Lowland Viney Wet Forest
  - 3172 Northern Ranges Brush Box-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
  - 3173 Northern Ranges Dunns Gum-Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3174 Northern Turpentine-Brush Box Wet Forest
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- Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3199 Far North New England Blackbutt Wet Forest
  - 3200 Meldrum High Plateau Wet Forest
  - 3201 Mid North Escarpment Blue Gum Moist Forest
  - 3202 Mid North Escarpment Ranges Blackbutt Forest
  - 3680 Northern Escarpment Ash Wet Shrub Forest
  - 3206 Northern Escarpment Corkwood-Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3207 Northern Escarpment Layered Blackbutt Fern Forest
  - 3203 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt Wet Forest
  - 3204 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt-Maple Wet Forest
  - 3205 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt-Tallowwood Wet Forest
  - 3208 Northern Escarpment Rocky Blackbutt Scrub Woodland
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