Nature conservation

Threatened species

Eastern Ground Parrot - Sydney Basin: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Pezoporus wallicus wallicus
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: Not listed
Last updated: 05 Jan 2018

Distribution of the species within this region

The Eastern Ground Parrot 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
Ettrema Known None
Illawarra Known None
Jervis Known None
Moss Vale Known None
Pittwater Known None
Sydney Cataract Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Eastern Ground Parrot - Sydney Basin is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
      • 3968 Northern Sands Baloskion-Machaerina Wetland
      • 3969 Northern Sands Machaerina-Eleocharis Sedgeland
      • 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3895 Budawang Damp Swamp Heath
      • 3896 Budderoo-Morton Damp Swamp Heath
      • 3903 Far Southeast Lowland Heath Swamp
      • 3906 Northern Lowland Clay Wet Heath
      • 3900 Northern Sandplain Saw-sedge-Fern Swamp Heath
      • 3913 Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
      • 3917 Shoalhaven Lowland Heath
      • 3923 Sydney Coastal Sandstone Creekline Swamp Heath
      • 3924 Sydney Coastal Upland Swamp Heath
      • 3925 Sydney Sandstone Button Grass Sedgeland
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  • Heathlands
    • Coastal Headland Heaths
      • 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
      • 3792 Far Southeast Headland Scrub
      • 3796 Northern Lowland Graminoid Clay Heath
    • South Coast Heaths
      • 3816 Far Southeast Coastal Lowland Heath
      • 3817 Mount Nadgee Heath
    • Southern Montane Heaths
      • 3872 Illawarra Basalt Melaleuca Scrub
      • 3869 Southern Escarpment Montane Heath
    • Sydney Coastal Heaths
      • 3809 Shoalhaven Rockplate Heath
      • 3810 Southern Sydney Rockplate Heath
      • 3811 Sydney Coastal Headland Cliff Scrub
      • 3814 Woronora Plateau Heath-Mallee
    • Sydney Montane Heaths
      • 3861 Morton Plateau Rocky Heath-Woodland
    • Wallum Sand Heaths
      • 3801 Far North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3802 Lower North Sandplain Wallum Heath
      • 3803 Northern Sandplain Damp Wallum Heath