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Gilbert's Whistler - Cobar Peneplain: 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 Cobar Peneplain Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Barnato Downs Known None
Canbelego Downs Predicted None
Lachlan Plains Known None
Nymagee Known None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Gilbert's Whistler - Cobar Peneplain 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