Nature conservation

Threatened species

Lesser Sand-plover - Sydney Basin: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Charadrius mongolus
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerableexternal link
Commonwealth status: Endangeredexternal link
Last updated: 13 Oct 2021

Distribution of the species within this region

The Lesser Sand-plover is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Sydney Basin Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Hunter Known None
Illawarra Known None
Jervis Known None
Pittwater Known None
Wyong Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Lesser Sand-plover - Sydney Basin 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
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3984 Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
      • 3985 Coastal Floodplain Swamp Paperbark Scrub
      • 3996 Coastal Sand Swamp Mahogany Dry Forest
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  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3958 Castlereagh Gravel Sedgeland
      • 3960 Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
      • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
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    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3921 Coastal Sydney Sand Saw-sedge Wet Shrubland
      • 3904 Hunter Coast Grasstree Graminoid Swamp Scrub
      • 3907 Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
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    • Inland Floodplain Swamps
      • 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
      • 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)
  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
      • 3791 Far North Headland-Dune Scrub
      • 3792 Far Southeast Headland Scrub
      • 3796 Northern Lowland Graminoid Clay Heath
    • South Coast Heaths
      • 3816 Far Southeast Coastal Lowland Heath
    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
    • Wallum Sand Heaths
      • 3801 Far North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3802 Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3803 Northern Sandplain Damp Wallum Heath
      • 3804 Northern Sands Wallum Banksia-Allocasuarina Scrub
  • Saline wetlands
    • Inland Saline lakes
      • 189 Ephemeral forbland wetland of low-saline lake-beds of the arid and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
    • 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
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