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Gilbert's Whistler - South Eastern Highlands: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Pachycephala inornata
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 01 Dec 2017

Distribution of the species within this region

The Gilbert's Whistler is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the South Eastern Highlands Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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Capertee Uplands Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Gilbert's Whistler - South Eastern Highlands 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
    • 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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    • Pilliga Outwash Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 141 Broombush - wattle very tall shrubland of the Pilliga to Goonoo regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 411 Buloke - White Cypress Pine woodland on outwash plains in the Pilliga Scrub and Narrabri regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 397 Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine shrub grass tall woodland of the Pilliga - Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1384 White Cypress Pine - Bulloak - ironbark woodland of the Pilliga area of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3533 Avisford Sandstone Moist Sheltered Forest
      • 3510 Capertee Slopes Stringybark-Box Forest
      • 3534 Central West Stony Hills Stringybark-Box Forest
      • 3535 Central West Stony Ranges Pine-Ironbark Forest
      • 4152 Central West Tumbledown Gum Grassy Forest
      • 3536 Mudgee Ranges Stony Slopes Shrub Forest
      • 3537 Murrumbidgee Currawang Rocky Shrubland
      • 3538 Snowy Gorge White Box-Pine Woodland
      • 3539 Southwest Foothills Red Box-Stringybark Forest
      • 3540 Southwest Foothills Stringybark-Box Grassy Forest
      • 3541 Southwest Ranges Stringybark Exposed Forest
      • 3542 Southwest Ranges Stringybark-Box Sheltered Forest
      • 3543 Southwest Rockplate Shrub Woodland
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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3730 Bondo Slopes Dry Stringybark Forest
      • 3737 Bungonia Tableland Scribbly Gum Shrub Forest
      • 3731 Capertee Conglomerate Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 3732 Capertee Uplands Enriched Stringybark Forest
      • 3734 Central Tableland Dry Slopes Stringybark-Box Forest
      • 3735 Central Tableland Peppermint Shrub-Grass Forest
      • 3736 Cudgegong Sandslope Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3738 Goulburn-Lithgow Tableland Hills Grassy Forest
      • 3739 Monaro Hills Brittle Gum Exposed Forest
      • 3741 Monaro Mountains Peppermint Shrub Forest
      • 3742 Monaro Mountains Snow Gum Shrub Forest
      • 3743 Monaro Ranges Exposed Shrub Forest
      • 3744 Palerang Hills Peppermint Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3745 Snowy Gorge Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3746 Southern Tableland Snow Gum-Candlebark Shrub Forest
      • 3747 Southern Tableland Western Hills Scribbly Gum Forest
      • 3749 Western Blue Mountains Scribbly Gum Forest
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    • Southern Wattle Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3669 Brogo Wattle Scrub
      • 3670 Snowy Gorge Currawang Shrub Woodland
      • 3671 Snowy Gorge Wattle Scrub
    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3750 Binnaway Sandstone Ironbark-Pine Shrubby Woodland
      • 417 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - red gum +/- White Bloodwood shrubby open forest on hills of the southern Pilliga, Coonabarabran and Garawilla regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 423 Blue-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple woodland mainly in the east Pilliga forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 712 Blue-leaved Ironbark - pine shrubby open forest on hills in the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 713 Blue-leaved Ironbark heathy woodland of the southern part of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 714 Blue-leaved Ironbark woodland on sandy uplands and slopes of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
      • 746 Brown Bloodwood - cypress - ironbark heathy woodland in the Pilliga region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3751 Capertee Blue-leaved Ironbark Forest
      • 3752 Capertee Rockplate Scrub
      • 4153 Central West Tumbledown Gum-Pine Shrub Forest
      • 409 Dirty (Baradine) Gum - White Bloodwood - White Cypress Pine - Motherumbah shrubby woodland on sandy soils in the Pilliga Scrub and surrounding region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 408 Dirty Gum (Baradine Gum) - Black Cypress Pine - White Bloodwood shrubby woodland on of the Pilliga forests and surrounding region
      • 3753 Dunedoo Sandstone Ironbark-Pine Forest
      • 3754 Durridgere Sandstone Ironbark Forest
      • 471 Dwyer's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - ironbark low woodland on sandstone hillcrests in the Dubbo - Gilgandra region, south-western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 462 Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Motherumbah open forest / woodland on sandstone hillcrests in the Liverpool Plains region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3755 Goonoo Sandstone Blue-leaved Ironbark-Pine Forest
      • 3776 Goulburn River Grassy Mallee Scrub
      • 3785 Goulburn River Ironbark Shrub Forest
      • 3780 Goulburn River Ironbark-Bloodwood Heathy Forest
      • 863 Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Inland Scribbly Gum shrubby open forest of the western Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 3756 Gulgong Ranges Stringybark-Ironbark Forest
      • 3757 Hunter Escarpment Ironbark Scrubby Low Forest
      • 3758 Hunter Escarpment Ironbark Wattle Scrub
      • 3759 Hunter Escarpment Wattle Scrub
      • 327 Inland Scribbly Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Red Ironbark open forest of the NSW central western slopes
      • 889 Inland Scribbly Gum - Grey Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark shrubby open forest on hills of western Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 477 Inland Scribbly Gum - Red Stringybark - Black Cypress Pine - Red Ironbark open forest on sandstone hills in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 322 Inland Scribbly Gum - Red Stringybark - Black Cypress Pine hillslope shrub-tussock grass open forest on mainly sandstone ranges in the NSW central western slopes
      • 379 Inland Scribbly Gum - White Bloodwood - Red Stringybark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby sandstone woodland mainly of the Warrumbungle NP - Pilliga region in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 430 Motherumbah - Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine tall shrubland of the Narrabri to Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 576 Motherumbah - hill red gum - Black Cypress Pine shrubby low woodland mainly in the southern Nandewar Bioregion
      • 330 Mugga Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine - Red Stringybark - Blakely's Red Gum - Red Ironbark woodland on hillslopes and in valleys on ranges in the NSW central western slopes
      • 255 Mugga Ironbark - Buloke - Pillga Box - White Cypress Pine shrubby woodland on sandstone in the Dubbo region, south-western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 470 Mugga Ironbark - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Buloke - Black Cypress Pine shrub grass open forest in the Goonoo forests and surrounding region, southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 358 Mugga Ironbark - Red Box - White Box - Black Cypress Pine tall woodland on rises and hills in the northern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 217 Mugga Ironbark - Western Grey Box - cypress pine tall woodland on footslopes of low hills in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 402 Mugga Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - gum tall woodland on flats in the Pilliga forests and surrounding regions, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3760 Munghorn Sandstone Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 531 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine - Motherumbah woodland in the Kaputar area in the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 459 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine - White Box shrubby woodland in sedimentary hills of the Gunnedah region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 468 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine +/- Blakely's Red Gum shrubby open forest on sandstone low hills in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion (including Goonoo)
      • 592 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - cypress pine - White Box shrubby open forestin the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Nandewar Bioregion
      • 398 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - Buloke tall open forest on lower slopes and flats in the Pilliga Scrub and surrounding forests in the central north Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 3762 Northern Wollemi Rocky Stringybark Forest
      • 3761 Northwest Felsic Rocky Gum Woodland
      • 3763 Northwest Wollemi Colluvial Apple Forest
      • 473 Red gum - Rough-barked Apple - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - cypress pine grassy open forest on flats and drainage lines in the Goonoo and surrounding forests, southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 354 Red Stringybark - Long-leaved Box - Black Cypress Pine - grassy/shrubby low woodland on ranges, central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 321 Red Stringybark - Long-leaved Box - Black Cypress Pine shrub/grass woodland on siliceous sedimentary ranges in the upper NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 440 Red Stringybark - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine - hill red gum sandstone woodland of southern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 401 Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine woodland on sandy flats, mainly in the Pilliga Scrub region
      • 455 Rough-barked Apple - Red Stringybark - Black Cypress Pine - red gum sand valley woodland of the Garawilla region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1278 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Currawang woodland of ridges and rocky hills mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 1279 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Red Box low woodland of hills of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 387 Tumbledown Red Gum - Porcupine Grass hummock grassland low open woodland on trachyte plugs in the Garawilla - Coolah region
      • 3765 Ulan Granite Scrub
      • 3766 Ulan Sandstone Damp Shrubland
      • 3781 Ulan Sandstone Ironbark-Pine Woodland
      • 3767 Upper Hunter Escarpment Colluvial Ironbark Forest
      • 3768 Upper Hunter Ranges Enriched Ironbark Forest
      • 3769 Upper Hunter Sandstone Stringybark-Ironbark Forest
      • 3770 Western Blue Mountains Escarpment Ironbark Forest
      • 110 Western Grey Box - Cypress Pine shrubby woodland on stony footslopes in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and Riverina Bioregion
      • 3771 Western Hunter Broombush Mallee Shrubland
      • 3772 Western Hunter Caleys Ironbark Low Forest
      • 3773 Western Hunter Currawang Low Forest
      • 3774 Western Hunter Dwyers Red Gum-Pine Woodland
      • 3775 Western Hunter Escarpment Ironbark Forest
      • 3777 Western Hunter Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 3778 Western Hunter Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
      • 3782 Western Hunter Rockplate Micromyrtus Heath
      • 3783 Western Hunter Rocky Sandstone Ironbark Forest
      • 3784 Western Hunter Rocky Scrub
      • 3786 Western Hunter Scribbly Gum-Pine Woodland
      • 431 White Bloodwood - Dirty Gum - cypress pine shrubby low woodland on sandy soils in the Narrabri to Warialda region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 407 White Bloodwood - ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby sandstone hill woodland of the southern Pilliga forests
      • 406 White Bloodwood - Motherumbah - Red Ironbark shrubby sandstone hill woodland / open forest mainly in east Pilliga forests
      • 405 White Bloodwood - Red Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby sandstone woodland of the Pilliga Scrub and surrounding regions
      • 457 White Bloodwood - Red Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine woodland on sandstone hills in the Garawilla - Liverpool Plains region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 346 White Box - Blakely's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine shrubby woodland on metamorphic hills in the Wagga Wagga - Cootamundra region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 396 White Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - White Bloodwood - red gum shrub grass woodland of the Pilliga - Coonabarabran region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 463 White Cypress Pine - red gum grass-shrub woodland on sandstone hills of the Caroona region, Liverpool Plains, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 414 White Mallee - Dwyer's Red Gum mallee heath on sands in the Goonoo - Pilliga region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Forested wetlands
    • Inland Riverine Forests
      • 10 River Red Gum - Black Box woodland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 11 River Red Gum - Lignum very tall open forest or woodland wetland on floodplains of semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 5 River Red Gum herbaceous-grassy very tall open forest wetland on inner floodplains in the lower slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and the eastern Riverina Bioregion.
  • Grassy woodlands
    • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
      • 80 Western Grey Box - White Cypress Pine tall woodland on loam soil on alluvial plains of NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and Riverina Bioregion
    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 3386 Capertee Marl Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3387 Central West Creekflat Grassy Woodland
      • 3404 Central West Flats Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3405 Central West Flats Inland Grey Box Grassy Forest
      • 3388 Central West Valleys White Box Forest
      • 3389 Honeysuckle Range Serpentinite Outcrop Woodland
      • 955 Mugga Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine woodland on hillslopes and ridges of the Central Lachlan region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 3399 Southwest Hills White Box-Blakelys Red Gum Forest
      • 3406 Southwest Ranges White Box Woodland
      • 3400 Southwest Slopes Box-Blakelys Red Gum Grassy Woodland
      • 3402 Western Blue Mountains White Box Forest
      • 3403 Western Hunter Creekflat Apple Grassy Forest
      • 272 White Box - Black Cypress Pine - red gum +/- Mugga Ironbark shrubby woodland in hills of the NSW central western slopes
      • 267 White Box - White Cypress Pine - Western Grey Box shrub/grass/forb woodland in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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  • Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
    • Inland Floodplain Woodlands
      • 13 Black Box - Lignum woodland wetland of the inner floodplains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
      • 630 Black Box - Silver Saltbush chenopod open woodland on terrace rises on alluvial plains in the lower Darling River and lower Murray River region of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
  • Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Dune Mallee Woodlands
      • 172 Deep sand mallee of irregular dunefields of the semi-arid (warm) zone
      • 191 Snap and Rattle Mallee - Moonah open mallee shrubland in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 171 Spinifex linear dune mallee mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
      • 177 Blue Mallee - Bull Mallee - Green Mallee very tall mallee shrubland of the West Wyalong region, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 178 Broombush - Green Mallee - Blue Mallee very tall shrubland on stony rises in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 317 Currawang very tall shrubland on siliceous rocky ridges and cliffs mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 186 Dwyer's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Currawang shrubby low woodland on rocky hills mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 184 Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Currawang low shrub-grass woodland of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 185 Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Currawang shrubby woodland mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 176 Green Mallee - White Cypress Pine very tall mallee woodland on gravel rises mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 256 Green Mallee tall mallee woodland on rises in the Pilliga - Goonoo regions, southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 180 Grey Mallee - White Cypress Pine woodland on rocky hills of the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 258 Gum Coolabah - Mugga Ironbark - White Cypress Pine woodland on granite low hills in the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion and central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 104 Gum Coolabah woodland on sedimentary substrates mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 318 Mugga Ironbark -Tumbledown Red Gum - Red Box - Black Cypress Pine open forest on shallow stony soils on hills in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 328 Red Ironbark - Black Cypress Pine shrubby woodland of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 329 Red Ironbark - Red Stringybark - Tumbledown Gum heath low woodland on ridges, central NSW South Western Slopes
      • 175 Ridge mallee woodland on hills of meta-sediments and volcanics, eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 292 She oak - Fringe Myrtle heathland on rocky ranges in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 332 Tumbledown Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Red Stringybark woodland on rocky hills in the NSW central western slopes
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    • Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
      • 19 Cypress Pine woodland of source-bordering dunes mainly on the Murray and Murrumbidgee River floodplains
      • 22 Semi-arid shrubby Buloke - Slender Cypress Pine woodland, far south-western NSW
      • 21 Slender Cypress Pine - Sugarwood - Western Rosewood open woodland on sandy rises mainly in the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 631 White Cypress Pine - Western Rosewood - spinifex grass open woodland on sand-dunes in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 28 White Cypress Pine open woodland of sand plains, prior streams and dunes mainly of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
    • Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
      • 142 Broombush shrubland in the mallee landscapes of the temperate and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
      • 355 Bull Mallee - White Mallee tall mallee woodland on red sandy loam soils in the central western slopes of NSW
      • 170 Chenopod sandplain mallee woodland/shrubland of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
      • 474 Dwyer's Red Gum - she oak mallee shrubland on eolian sand in the Gilgandra region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 174 Mallee - Gum Coolabah woodland on red earth flats of the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 190 Mallee Box open woodland mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
      • 193 Red Mallee - White Mallee extremely tall tree mallee on silty-loam-clay soils of central south-western NSW
      • 173 Sandplain mallee of central NSW
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    • Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
      • 57 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Wilga woodland of central NSW including the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 58 Black Oak - Western Rosewood open woodland on deep sandy loams mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
    • Western Peneplain Woodlands
      • 108 Gum Coolabah - Mulga open woodland on gravel ridges of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 246 Pine shrubland of the western Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 103 Poplar Box - Gum Coolabah - White Cypress Pine shrubby woodland mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
      • 72 White Cypress Pine - Poplar Box woodland on footslopes and peneplains mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion