Nature conservation

Threatened species

Eastern Osprey - Sydney Basin: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Pandion cristatus

Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable

Commonwealth status: Not listed

Last updated: 18 Dec 2020

Distribution of the species within this region

The Eastern Osprey 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 predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Cumberland	Known	None
Hunter	Known	None
Illawarra	Known	None
Jervis	Known	None
Pittwater	Known	None
Sydney Cataract	Known	None
Wyong	Known	None
Yengo	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Eastern Osprey - Sydney Basin 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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- Cumberland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3448 Castlereagh Ironbark Forest
- 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
  - 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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- Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3454 Chandlers Creek Dry Grassy Forest
  - 3455 Clarence Gorges Granite 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)
- Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
  - 3545 Coastal Sands Bloodwood Low Forest
  - 3546 Coastal Sands Littoral Scrub-Forest
  - 3550 Far North Coastal Cypress Grassy Forest
  - 3547 Far North Sands Coastal Cypress Dry Shrub Forest
  - 3548 Far North Sands Scribbly Gum Heathy Forest
  - 3555 Lower North Sand Swale Banksia Woodland
  - 3549 Lower North Sandplain Heathy Forest
  - 3551 Northern Sands Blackbutt-Red Mahogany Forest
  - 3552 Northern Sands Blackbutt-Stringybark Forest
  - 3553 Northern Sands Bloodwood-Swamp Turpentine Forest
  - 3554 Northern Sands Tea-tree-Banksia Littoral Scrub
  - 3556 Umina Coastal Sand Woodland
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- North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3557 Banyabba Creekflat Orange Gum-Paperbark Forest
  - 3559 Chambigne Mahogany-Brown Bloodwood Forest
  - 3560 Chambigne Square-fruited Ironbark-Stringybark Forest
  - 3566 Clarence Sandstone Rockplate Scrub
  - 3567 Clarence Sandstone Rough-barked Apple Shrub Forest
  - 3568 Clarence Sandstone Stringybark Heathy Woodland
  - 3569 Clarence Sandstone Stringybark-Blackbutt Forest
  - 3570 Coorabakh Conglomerate Banksia Forest
  - 3565 Glenreagh Sandstone Riparian Scrub
  - 3571 Mount Warning Caldera Scribbly Gum Woodland
  - 3574 Northern Lowland Sandstones Dry Open Forest
  - 3573 Northern Lowland Scribbly Gum-Bloodwood Forest
  - 3575 Urbenville Plug Peaks Shrub Woodland
  - 3576 Yarriabini Granite Dry Forest
  - 3577 Yuraygir Range Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest
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- Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
- 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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- South Coast Sands Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3638 South Coast Sands Bangalay Forest
  - 3639 South Coast Sands Bangalay Littoral Forest
  - 3640 South Coast Sands Littoral Scrub
  - 3641 Wonboyn Sand Forest
- South Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3182 Far South Coastal Apple Gully Forest
  - 3183 Far South Hinterland Stringybark Sheltered Forest
  - 3184 Far South Lowland Creekflat Forest
  - 3185 Far South Riverflat Wet Forest
  - 3189 South Coast Gully Shrub Forest
  - 3188 South Coast Riverflat Peppermint Forest
  - 3193 South Coast Stringybark-Monkey Gum Wet Forest
  - 3197 Southeast Hinterland Monkey Gum Moist Shrub Forest
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- South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3644 Coondella Rhyolite Shrub Woodland
  - 3645 Deua Rocky Slopes Woila Gum Woodland
  - 3646 Far South Coastal Ranges Silvertop Ash Forest
  - 3649 Far South Lowland Depressions Shrub Forest
  - 3652 Gulaga Rocky Scrub
  - 3654 Shoalhaven Lowland Bloodwood Shrub Forest
  - 3655 South Coast Escarpment Rocky Scrub
  - 3656 South Coast Foothills Dry Shrub Forest
  - 3659 South Coast Hinterland Silvertop Ash Forest
  - 3661 South Coast Hinterland Yertchuk Forest
  - 3662 South Coast Lowland Blackbutt Forest
  - 3663 Southeast Foothills Stringybark Shrub Forest
  - 3664 Southeast Foothills Woollybutt Dry Shrub Forest
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- Southern Wattle Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3797 Southeast Scarp Wattle Scrub
- Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3578 Blue Mountains Low Heathy Woodland
  - 3580 Burralow Swamp Woodland
  - 3581 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple Forest
  - 3582 Hunter Coast Lowland Apple-Bloodwood Forest
  - 3583 Hunter Coast Lowland Scribbly Gum Forest
  - 3584 Illawarra Escarpment Cliffline Scrub
  - 3585 Morton Plateau Shrub Forest
  - 3586 Northern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
  - 3587 Pearl Beach Sand Forest
  - 3588 Shoalhaven Foothills Bloodwood Heathy Forest
  - 1681 Smooth-barked Apple - Cabbage Palm - Broad-leaved Mahogany woodland on Wallarah Peninsular
  - 3590 Southern Sydney Scribbly Gum Woodland
  - 3591 Southern Sydney Sheltered Forest
  - 3592 Sydney Coastal Enriched Sandstone Forest
  - 3593 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Bloodwood Shrub Forest
  - 3594 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Foreshores Forest
  - 3595 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Gully Forest
  - 3596 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Riparian Forest
  - 3597 Watagan Escarpment Rocky Shrub Forest
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- Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3605 Hunter Range Ironbark Forest
  - 3606 Hunter Range Peppermint Moist Gully Forest
  - 3607 Hunter Range Rockplate Scrub
  - 3608 Hunter Range Yellow Bloodwood Forest
  - 3609 Kangaroo Valley Colluvial Scribbly Gum-Stringybark Forest
  - 3615 Sydney Hinterland Apple-Blackbutt Gully Forest
  - 3619 Sydney Hinterland Enriched Sandstone Bloodwood Forest
  - 3616 Sydney Hinterland Grey Gum Transition Forest
  - 3617 Sydney Hinterland Peppermint-Apple Forest
  - 3618 Sydney Hinterland Sandflat Peppermint Forest
  - 3620 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine Sheltered Forest
  - 3621 Sydney Hinterland Turpentine-Apple Gully Forest
  - 3622 Sydney Hinterland Yellow Bloodwood Woodland
  - 3623 Western Blue Mountains Grey Gum-Stringybark Forest
  - 3626 Wollemi Plateau Stringybark-Grey Gum Forest
  - 3627 Wollemi Plateau Yertchuk-Stringybark Woodland
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- Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
  - 3628 Castlereagh Shrubby Swamp Woodland
  - 4162 Elderslie Banksia Scrub
  - 3630 Kurri Sand Heathy Woodland
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3750 Binnaway Sandstone Ironbark-Pine Shrubby Woodland
  - 3751 Capertee Blue-leaved Ironbark Forest
  - 3754 Durridgere Sandstone Ironbark Forest
  - 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
  - 3757 Hunter Escarpment Ironbark Scrubby Low Forest
  - 3758 Hunter Escarpment Ironbark Wattle Scrub
  - 3759 Hunter Escarpment Wattle Scrub
  - 3761 Northwest Felsic Rocky Gum Woodland
  - 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
  - 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
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Forested wetlands
- Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
  - 4015 Central Hunter Riparian Forest
  - 4016 Clarence Floodplain Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4019 Coastal Alluvial Bangalay Forest
  - 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
  - 4021 Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
  - 4023 Coastal Valleys Riparian Forest
  - 4024 Cumberland Blue Box Riverflat Forest
  - 4025 Cumberland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
  - 4026 Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4028 Estuarine Swamp Oak Twig-rush Forest
  - 4027 Estuarine Swamp Oak-Mangrove Forest
  - 4029 Far North Creekflat Paperbark Swamp Forest
  - 4030 Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4032 Far North Floodplain Red Gum Sedge Forest
  - 4033 Far North Hinterland Flats Mesic Apple Forest
  - 4034 Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
  - 4035 Far South Floodplain Wetland Paperbark Scrub
  - 4036 Hunter Coast Lake Flats Apple Forest
  - 4037 Hunter Coast Swamp Oak Rainforest
  - 4038 Hunter Estuarine Melaleuca nodosa Scrub
  - 4039 Hunter Range Creekflat Apple-Red Gum Forest
  - 4041 Lower Hunter Flats Red Gum Mesic Forest
  - 4042 Lower North Riverflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Forest
  - 4044 Northern Creekflat Eucalypt-Paperbark Mesic Swamp Forest
  - 4045 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
  - 4046 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Red Gum Forest
  - 4047 Northern Swamp Mahogany-Bottlebrush Swamp Forest
  - 4048 Northern Swamp Oak-Paperbark Forest
  - 4049 South Coast Floodplain Grassy Swamp Forest
  - 4050 South Coast Floodplain Wetland Paperbark Scrub
  - 4051 South Coast Lowland Red Gum-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4054 South Coast Tidal Flats Samolus Paperbark-Grey Box Forest
  - 4055 South Coast Upper Floodplain Wetland
  - 4056 Southern Estuarine Swamp Paperbark Creekflat Scrub
  - 4057 Sydney Creekflat Swamp Mahogany-Paperbark Forest
  - 4058 Sydney Hinterland Red Gum Riverflat Forest
  - 4059 Sydney Hinterland Sandy Creekflat Shrub Forest
  - 4060 Yengo Creekflat Sedgeland
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- Coastal Swamp Forests
  - 3983 Central Coast Flats Mesic Swamp Forest
  - 3984 Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
  - 3985 Coastal Floodplain Swamp Paperbark Scrub
  - 3996 Coastal Sand Swamp Mahogany Dry Forest
  - 3986 Coastal Sands Swamp Mahogany Rush Forest
  - 3987 Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 3988 Far North Mesophyll Paperbark Swamp Forest
  - 3989 Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
  - 3990 Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
  - 3991 Far North Sands Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
  - 3993 Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
  - 3995 Hunter Coast Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Forest
  - 3997 Hunter Coast Sandplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
  - 3998 Lower North Creekflat Mahogany Swamp Forest
  - 4000 Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
  - 4001 Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
  - 4002 Northern Lowland Orange Gum Dry Swamp Forest
  - 4003 Northern Lowland Swamp Turpentine-Mahogany Forest
  - 4004 Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
  - 4005 Northern Paperbark Banksia Littoral Forest
  - 4006 Northern Paperbark-Swamp Mahogany Saw-sedge Forest
  - 4007 Northern Sands Paperbark Sedge Low Forest
  - 4008 Northern Sands Swamp Mahogany Shrubby Rush Forest
  - 3992 Northern Sandy Alluvium Heathy Swamp Forest
  - 4009 Shoalhaven Lowland Flats Wet Swamp Forest
  - 4010 Sydney Hinterland Creekflat Paperbark Scrub
  - 4012 Tomago Drooping Red Gum Swamp Woodland
  - 4013 Wyong Paperbark-Woollybutt Swamp Forest
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- Eastern Riverine Forests
  - 4064 Central Eastern Ranges River Oak Forest
  - 4065 Central Tableland Riverine Complex
  - 4066 Clarence Valley River Oak Wet Forest
  - 4067 Deua Riparian Wattle Scrub
  - 4068 Ettrema Plateau Riparian Scrub
  - 4069 Far North Creekline Wet Forest
  - 4070 Far North River Oak Wet Forest
  - 4072 Hunter River Oak Mesic Forest
  - 4073 Lower North Hinterland River Oak Forest
  - 4077 Northern Coastal River Oak Wet Forest
  - 4078 Northern Gorges River Oak Forest
  - 4079 Northern Hinterland Grassy River Oak Forest
  - 4076 Northwest Ranges River Oak Forest
  - 4080 Northwest River Oak-Apple Forest
  - 4081 Northwest River Oak-River Red Gum Forest
  - 4075 Northwest River Red Gum-River Oak Sheltered Forest
  - 4086 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Riparian Scrub
  - 4087 Upper Orara Riparian Wet Forest
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- Inland Riverine Forests
  - 356 Blakely's Red Gum x Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall riparian woodland, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
  - 4089 Namoi-Upper Hunter River Red Gum Forest
  - 78 River Red Gum riparian tall woodland / open forest wetland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  - 249 River Red Gum swampy woodland wetland on cowals (lakes) and associated flood channels in central NSW
  - 36 River Red Gum tall to very tall open forest / woodland wetland on rivers on floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  - 4088 Southwest Riverflat Red Gum 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
  - 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
  - 3914 Northern Sands Chorizandra Sedgeland
  - 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
  - 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
  - 1738 Spirodella freshwater wetland
  - 3977 Sydney Coastal Headland Lagoon Sedgeland
  - 3972 Sydney Creekflat Wetland
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- Coastal Heath Swamps
  - 3894 Blue Mountains Creekline Shrub Swamp
  - 3895 Budawang Damp Swamp Heath
  - 3896 Budderoo-Morton Damp Swamp Heath
  - 3898 Clarence Lowland Smudgy Apple Banksia Forest
  - 3899 Clarence Sandstone Plateau Wet Heath
  - 3920 Coastal Clifftop Shrubby Marsh
  - 3921 Coastal Sydney Sand Saw-sedge Wet Shrubland
  - 3901 Far South Hinterland Heath
  - 3903 Far Southeast Lowland Heath Swamp
  - 3902 Far Southeast Shrubby Swamp Woodland
  - 3904 Hunter Coast Grasstree Graminoid Swamp Scrub
  - 3905 Jervis Bay Headland Dune Wet Heath
  - 3897 Lower Clarence Sandy Creekflat Sedgeland
  - 3907 Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
  - 3908 Lower North Sands Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Heath
  - 3909 Mellong Creekflat Wet Heath
  - 3906 Northern Lowland Clay Wet Heath
  - 3911 Northern Sand Swale Fernland
  - 3912 Northern Sand Swale Paperbark Sedge Shrubland
  - 3900 Northern Sandplain Saw-sedge-Fern Swamp Heath
  - 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
  - 3915 Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
  - 3916 Sandstone Cliff Soak
  - 3917 Shoalhaven Lowland Heath
  - 3919 Southern Highlands Wet Swamp Heath
  - 3922 Sydney Coastal Sand Swamp Scrub
  - 3923 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Creekline Swamp Heath
  - 3924 Sydney Coastal Upland Swamp Heath
  - 3925 Sydney Sandstone Button Grass Sedgeland
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- Inland Floodplain Swamps
  - 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
  - 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
  - 361 Sedgeland fen wetland of spring-fed or runoff-fed creeks in the southern Pilliga - Warrumbungle Range region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion

Grasslands
- Maritime Grasslands
  - 3407 Central Headland Grassland
  - 4117 Mutton Bird Island Headland Herbfield
  - 3408 Northern Headland Grassland
  - 3409 Southern Headland Grassland
  - 3410 Spinifex Strandline Grassland
  - 3411 Tollgate Island Littoral Scrub
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Grassy woodlands
- Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
  - 3312 Acacia Creek Grassy Forest
  - 3313 Araluen Scarp Grassy Forest
  - 3316 Clarence Gorges Foothills Red Gum Dry Forest
  - 3317 Clarence Ranges Moist Grassy Gully Forest
  - 3318 Cumberland Moist Shale Woodland
  - 3319 Cumberland Shale Hills Woodland
  - 3320 Cumberland Shale Plains Woodland
  - 3321 Cumberland Shale-Sandstone Ironbark Forest
  - 3323 Far North Lowland Basalt Grassy Forest
  - 3322 Far North Ranges Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3324 Far South Hinterland Red Box Rocky Woodland
  - 3326 Glenugie Peak Grassy Forest
  - 3327 Illawarra Lowland Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3328 Lower Hunter Red Gum-Paperbark Riverflat Forest
  - 3329 Northern Hinterland Valleys Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3269 Shoalhaven Lowland Spotted Gum-Paperbark Forest
  - 4052 South Coast Low Hills Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3330 South Coast Lowland Woollybutt Grassy Forest
  - 3325 South Coast Valley Flats Ribbon Gum Forest
  - 3332 Southeast Lowland Grassy Woodland
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Heathlands
- Coastal Headland Heaths
  - 3787 Byron Graminoid Clay Heath
  - 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
  - 3789 Coastal Headland Clay Heath
  - 3791 Far North Headland-Dune Scrub
  - 3792 Far Southeast Headland Scrub
  - 3793 Hunter Coast Headland Clay Heath
  - 3794 Lower North Coast Headland Clay Heath
  - 3795 Mid North Swamp Oak Headland Scrub
  - 3796 Northern Lowland Graminoid Clay Heath
  - 3798 Tomaree Headland Rocky Scrub
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- South Coast Heaths
  - 3815 Eurobodalla Headland Heath
  - 3816 Far Southeast Coastal Lowland Heath
  - 3817 Mount Nadgee Heath
- Sydney Coastal Heaths
  - 3807 Northern Sydney Heath-Mallee
  - 3808 Northern Sydney Sandstone Rockplate Shrubland
  - 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
  - 3810 Southern Sydney Rockplate Heath
  - 3811 Sydney Coastal Headland Cliff Scrub
  - 3812 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Headland Heath
  - 3813 Sydney Hinterland Dwarf Apple Low Woodland
  - 3814 Woronora Plateau Heath-Mallee
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- Wallum Sand Heaths
  - 3799 Agnes Banks Woodland
  - 3800 Bouddi Headland Wallum Heath
  - 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
  - 3805 Southern Sandplain Heath
  - 3806 Sydney Coastal Sand Mantle Heath
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Miscellaneous ecosystems
- Marine environments
  - 99994 Dune and Shorelines
  - 99995 Oceans
- Rocky cliffs, major rock outcrops etc
  - 99993 Rocky cliffs, major rock outcrops etc
- Rocky islands
  - 99992 Rocky islands
- Terrestrial saline environments
  - 99998 non vegetated terrestrial saline environments
- Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
  - 99996 Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

Rainforests
- Dry Rainforests
  - 3056 Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
  - 3110 Greater Sydney Enriched Grey Myrtle Dry Rainforest
  - 3077 Illawarra Complex Dry Rainforest
  - 3014 Liverpool Range Daphnandra Rainforest
  - 4110 Lower North Estuarine Sand Dry Rainforest
  - 3091 Lower North Waterhousea-Water Gum Rainforest
  - 3469 Macleay Gorges Low Scrubby Dry Rainforest
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- Littoral Rainforests
  - 3122 Far North Littoral Rainforest
  - 3123 Far North Sands Coastal Cypress Littoral Rainforest
  - 3124 Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
  - 4146 Illawarra Sands Littoral Rainforest
  - 3134 Illawarra Seacliffs Littoral Rainforest
  - 4114 Lower North Sands Littoral Rainforest
  - 3127 Mid North Headland Brush Box Littoral Rainforest
  - 3129 Mid North Sands Littoral Rainforest
  - 3130 Mid North Tuckeroo-Paperbark Littoral Wet Forest
  - 3131 Myall-Wallis Lakes Littoral Rainforest
  - 3132 Northern Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Forest
  - 3133 Sydney Coast Tuckeroo Littoral Rainforest
  - 3135 Tomaree Headland Littoral Rainforest
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- Southern Warm Temperate Rainforests
  - 3045 South Coast Temperate Gully Rainforest
- Subtropical Rainforests
  - 3121 Broken Head Lowland Rainforest
  - 3004 Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
  - 4031 Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak Rainforest
  - 3011 Far North Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3001 Lismore Basalt Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3019 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
  - 3021 Northern Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
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Saline wetlands
- Mangrove Swamps
  - 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
  - 4140 Far North Mangrove Forest
  - 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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Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
- Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3230 Central Coast Escarpment Moist Forest
  - 3231 Cordeaux Crinanite Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3144 Craven Grey Box Grassy Forest
  - 3232 Far North Coastal Hills Blackbutt-Ironbark Forest
  - 3233 Far North Hinterland Grey Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3234 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Moist Forest
  - 3235 Hunter Escarpment Enriched Moist Forest
  - 3237 Hunter Range Blue Gum Gully Forest
  - 3238 Hunter Range Colluvial Apple-Gum Forest
  - 3239 Hunter Range Sheltered Grey Gum Forest
  - 3236 Hunter Valley Hills Wet Vine Forest
  - 3155 Illawarra North-Pittwater Bangalay Moist Forest
  - 3240 Lower North Escarpment Red Gum Grassy Forest
  - 3242 Lower North Ranges Turpentine Moist Forest
  - 3243 Lower North Sheltered Valley Red Gum Forest
  - 3244 Lower North Spotted Gum-Mahogany-Ironbark Sheltered Forest
  - 3241 Lower North White Mahogany-Spotted Gum Moist Forest
  - 3246 Mount Warning Caldera Wet Grassy Forest
  - 3247 North Brother Rocky Slopes Moist 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
  - 3255 Nymboida Acacia blakei Shrubland
  - 3256 Rivertree Creekflat Moist Grassy Forest
  - 3257 Sun Valley Diatreme Cabbage Gum Forest
  - 3258 Sydney Basin Creekflat Blue Gum-Apple Forest
  - 3259 Sydney Coastal Shale-Sandstone Forest
  - 3260 Sydney Foreshores Shale Forest
  - 3261 Sydney Sandstone Plateau Shale Forest
  - 3262 Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest
  - 3263 Watagan Range Turpentine-Mahogany Grassy Forest
  - 3245 West Mount Royal Slopes Grassy Forest
  - 3264 Wollemi Basalt Red Gum Forest
  - 3179 Yessabah Limestone Moist Forest
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- Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3146 Dorrigo Red Gum Grassy Forest
- Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3266 Nattai-Morton Sandstone Peppermint Gully Forest
  - 3267 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
  - 3268 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine-Ironbark Moist Forest
  - 3270 Shoalhaven Lowland Wet Gully Forest
  - 3271 Shoalhaven Spotted Gum-Blackbutt Moist Forest
  - 3272 South Coast Lowland Creekflat Forest
  - 3273 South Coast Lowland Shrub-Grass Forest
  - 3275 South Coast Spotted Gum Cycad Dry Forest
  - 3274 South Coast Spotted Gum Moist Forest
  - 3276 South Coast Stringybark Cycad Exposed Forest
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Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
- North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3141 Central Coast Dolerite Hills Wet Forest
  - 3142 Clarence Lowland Sandstone Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3145 Cumberland Bangalay x Blue Gum Riverflat Forest
  - 3147 Far North Brush Box-Bloodwood Wet Forest
  - 3148 Far North Brush Box-Walnut Wet Forest
  - 3149 Far North Hinterland Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3150 Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest
  - 3125 Illawarra Seacliff Banksia-Bangalay Forest
  - 3156 Jervis Bay Sands Littoral Moist Forest
  - 3084 Lower North Brown Myrtle Wet Forest
  - 3157 Lower North Escarpment Blue Gum Wet Forest
  - 3158 Lower North Foothills Turpentine-Flooded Gum Wet Forest
  - 3087 Lower North Ranges Riparian Turpentine Forest
  - 3160 Lower North Turpentine-Tallowwood-Grey Gum Forest
  - 3161 Mid North Hinterland Wet Forest
  - 4043 Mid North Lowland Riparian Wet Forest
  - 3164 Mountain Lagoon Basalt 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
  - 3171 Northern Lowland Viney Wet Forest
  - 3174 Northern Turpentine-Brush Box Wet Forest
  - 3177 Tweed Valley Lowland Wet Forest
  - 3178 Washpool Outcrops White-topped Box Forest
  - 3180 Yuraygir Range Brush Box-Tallowwood Gully Forest
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- Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
  - 3202 Mid North Escarpment Ranges Blackbutt Forest
  - 3208 Northern Escarpment Rocky Blackbutt Scrub Woodland

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