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Threatened species

Scarlet Robin - NSW North Coast: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Petroica boodang
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerableexternal link
Commonwealth status: Not listedexternal link
Last updated: 01 Dec 2017

Distribution of the species within this region

The Scarlet Robin is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the NSW North Coast Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Barrington Known None
Carrai Plateau Known None
Cataract Known None
Chaelundi Known None
Coffs Coast and Escarpment Known None
Comboyne Plateau Known None
Dalmorton Known None
Ellerston Known None
Guy Fawkes Known None
Karuah Manning Known None
Macleay Gorges Known None
Macleay Hastings Known None
Mummel Escarpment Known None
Rocky River Gorge Known None
Tomalla Known None
Upper Hunter Known None
Upper Manning Known None
Washpool Known None
Yuraygir Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Scarlet Robin - NSW North Coast is known to be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information about it.

  • Alpine complex
    • Alpine Bogs and Fens
      • 3890 Kosciuszko Alpine Wet Heath
      • 3891 Kosciuszko Range Boggy Herbfield
      • 3892 Kosciuszko Subalpine Valley Damp Heath
    • Alpine Fjaeldmarks
      • 3881 Alpine Snowpatch Feldmark
      • 3882 Alpine Windswept Feldmark
    • Alpine Heaths
      • 3878 Kosciuszko Frost Hollow Grassy Open Heath
      • 3879 Kosciuszko High Plateau Grassy Open Heath
      • 3880 Namadgi Subalpine Rocky Shrubland
    • Alpine Herbfields
      • 3883 Alpine Short Herbfield
      • 3884 Alpine Snowpatch Grassland
      • 3885 Alpine Snowpatch Herbfield
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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrub/grass sub-formation)
    • Central Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3472 Bungonia Grassy Box Woodland
      • 3473 Bungonia Slates Shrubby Open Forest
      • 3474 Burragorang Escarpment Grey Gum Sheltered Forest
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    • Clarence Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3417 Baryulgil Serpentinite Woodland
      • 3418 Clarence Foothills Bloodwood-Ironbark Grassy Forest
      • 3420 Clarence Lowland Ironbark-Spotted Gum 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
      • 1608 Grey Box - Grey Gum - Rough-barked Apple - Blakely's Red Gum grassy open forest of the central Hunter
      • 3432 Hunter Coast Foothills Apple-Ironbark Grassy Forest
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    • New England Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 495 Brittle Gum - Silvertop Stringybark grassy open forest of the Liverpool Range, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 568 Broad-leaved Stringybark shrub/grass open forest of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 3500 Cathedral Rock Granite Peppermint-Gum Forest
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    • Northern Gorge Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3454 Chandlers Creek Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3455 Clarence Gorges Granite Grassy Forest
      • 3456 Clarence Gorges Grey Gum-Ironbark Grassy Forest
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    • North-west Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Woodlands
      • 506 Black Cypress Pine - White Box - Tumbledown Gum shrubby open forest / woodland mainly in the Mt Kaputar region, Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1607 Blakely's Red Gum - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Rough-barked Apple shrubby woodland of the upper Hunter
      • 3513 Kaputar White Box-Apple Sheltered Forest
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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
      • 88 Pilliga Box - White Cypress Pine - Buloke shrubby woodland in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1090 Red Ironbark - Brown Bloodwood shrubby woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 1384 White Cypress Pine - Bulloak - ironbark woodland of the Pilliga area of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Southern Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3449 Far South Escarpment Stringybark-Gum Forest
      • 3450 Far South Hinterland Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3451 Far South Sheltered Monkey Gum Forest
      • 3452 Southeast Hinterland Dry Grassy Forest
      • 3453 Southeast Scarp Maidens Gum Forest
    • Upper Riverina Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 305 Apple Box - Broad-leaved Peppermint - Red Stringybark shrubby hill open forest in the upper NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and adjacent South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 298 Apple Box - Nortons Box - Blakely's Red Gum valley flat moist grassy tall open forest in the southern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and adjoining South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 314 Apple Box - Red Stringybark basalt scree open forest in the upper Murray River region
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  • Dry sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Coastal Dune Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3544 Coastal Sands Apple-Blackbutt Forest
    • North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3557 Banyabba Creekflat Orange Gum-Paperbark Forest
      • 3558 Banyabba Rockplate Shrub Woodland
      • 3559 Chambigne Mahogany-Brown Bloodwood Forest
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    • Northern Escarpment Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3672 Carrai-Werrikimbe Blackbutt Dry Shrub Forest
      • 3674 Clarence Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Fern Forest
      • 1617 New England Blackbutt - Diehard Stringybark shrubby open forest on the Northern Tablelands escarpment and Barrington Tops
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    • Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3697 Bingara Tumbledown Gum Spinifex Woodland
      • 609 Black Cypress Pine - Caley's Ironbark - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on Mole Granite of the Torrington area of the New England Tableland Bioregion
      • 502 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubby woodland on granites of the Nandewar Bioregion and New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • South Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3181 Bega Wet Shrub Forest
      • 3182 Far South Coastal Apple Gully Forest
      • 3183 Far South Hinterland Stringybark Sheltered Forest
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    • South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3642 Brogo Scarp Mallee Scrub
      • 3643 Bungonia Tableland Silvertop Ash-Stringybark Forest
      • 3644 Coondella Rhyolite Shrub Woodland
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    • Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 652 Apple Box - Eurabbie grassy open forest on sheltered slopes and gullies in the Burrinjuck area, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 653 Apple Box - Yellow Box - Argyle Apple dry open forest of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 344 Argyle Apple - Acacia mearnsii valley open forest of the Yass - Rye Park region of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and adjoining NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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    • Southern Wattle Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3669 Brogo Wattle Scrub
      • 3670 Snowy Gorge Currawang Shrub Woodland
      • 3671 Snowy Gorge Wattle Scrub
    • Sydney Coastal Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3578 Blue Mountains Low Heathy Woodland
      • 3579 Blue Mountains Scribbly Gum Swamp Woodland
      • 3580 Burralow Swamp Woodland
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    • Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3599 Blue Mountains Peppermint Shrub Forest
      • 3600 Burragorang Escarpment Heath
      • 3601 Burragorang Footslopes Scribbly Gum Forest
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    • Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3685 Budawang Sandstone Silvertop Ash Forest
      • 3686 Mount Airly Sandstone Forest
      • 3687 Newnes Plateau Peppermint-Ash Tall Forest
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    • Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
      • 3628 Castlereagh Shrubby Swamp Woodland
      • 4162 Elderslie Banksia Scrub
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    • Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3750 Binnaway Sandstone Ironbark-Pine Shrubby Woodland
      • 671 Black Cypress Pine - Acacia - Red Ash shrubby woodland of the far northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 610 Black Cypress Pine - Dwyer's Gum low woodland / open forest on rocky ridges mainly of the Nandewar Range
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    • Yetman Dry Sclerophyll Forests
      • 791 Cypress pine - Bulloak shrubby woodland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 810 Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine - Northern Smooth-barked Apple shrub/grass open forest in the far north of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 1380 Narrow-leaved Ironbark - pine - Brown Bloodwood shrub/grass open forest in the north west of the Nandewar Bioregion
      • 998 Northern Smooth-barked Apple - pine shrubby open-forest of the northern Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 458 White Cypress Pine - Buloke - White Box shrubby open forest on hills in the Liverpool Plains - Dubbo region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Forested wetlands
    • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
      • 4138 Araluen Valley Flats Red Gum Forest
      • 4019 Coastal Alluvial Bangalay Forest
      • 4020 Coastal Creekflat Layered Grass-Sedge Swamp Forest
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    • Coastal Swamp Forests
      • 3989 Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
    • Eastern Riverine Forests
      • 4061 Bega-Towamba Riparian Scrub
      • 4062 Capertee Riparian Paperbark Thicket
      • 4063 Central and Southern Tableland River Oak 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
      • 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)
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  • Freshwater wetlands
    • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
      • 3962 Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
      • 3975 Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3929 Blue Mountains Swamp Heath
      • 3920 Coastal Clifftop Shrubby Marsh
      • 3921 Coastal Sydney Sand Saw-sedge Wet Shrubland
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    • Inland Floodplain Swamps
      • 3982 Southwest Floodplain Wetland Meadow
    • Montane Bogs and Fens
      • 3926 Barrington Granodiorite Subalpine Swamp Woodland
      • 3927 Barrington Subalpine Swamp Meadow
      • 3928 Blue Mountains Damp Coral Fern Swamp
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    • Montane Lakes
      • 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands
  • Grasslands
    • Temperate Montane Grasslands
      • 797 Derived grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and South East Corner Bioregion
      • 569 Derived Snow Grass +/- Kangaroo Grass +/- Wild Sorghum tussock grassland of the NSW Northern Tablelands
      • 894 Kangaroo Grass - Purple Wire-grass - Mat-rush - Wallaby Grass - Common Buttons dry tussock grassland in the north-western and Eastern parts of the Southern Tablelands of the South Eastern Highlands Bi
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    • Western Slopes Grasslands
      • 710 Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Common Woodruff clay plain grassland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
      • 796 Derived grassland of the NSW South Western Slopes
      • 799 Derived grasslands of the Capertee Valley
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  • Grassy woodlands
    • Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
      • 3312 Acacia Creek Grassy Forest
      • 3313 Araluen Scarp Grassy Forest
      • 1696 Blakely's Red Gum - Rough-barked Apple shrubby woodland of central and upper Hunter
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    • Floodplain Transition Woodlands
      • 248 Mixed box eucalypt woodland on low sandy-loam rises on alluvial plains in central western NSW
      • 56 Poplar Box - Belah woodland on clay-loam soils on alluvial plains of north-central NSW
      • 244 Poplar Box grassy woodland on alluvial clay-loam soils mainly in the temperate (hot summer) climate zone of central NSW (wheatbelt).
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    • New England Grassy Woodlands
      • 3351 Armidale Creekflat Snow Gum Woodland-Scrub
      • 3352 Armidale Quartz Hills Stringybark Forest
      • 498 Black Sallee plateau low woodland in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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    • Southern Tableland Grassy Woodlands
      • 654 Apple Box - Yellow Box dry grassy woodland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 303 Black Sally grassy low woodland in valleys in the upper slopes sub-region of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion and western South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
      • 703 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
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    • Subalpine Woodlands
      • 3379 Barrington-Point Lookout Montane Grassy Forest
      • 3380 Jounama Snow Gum Shrub Woodland
      • 3381 Kosciuszko Alpine Sally Woodland
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    • Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
      • 3337 Bondo Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
      • 722 Brittle Gum - stringybark shrubby open forest on basalt residuals in the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
      • 513 Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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    • Western Slopes Grassy Woodlands
      • 283 Apple Box - Blakely's Red Gum moist valley and footslopes grass-forb open forest of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
      • 337 Apple Box - Silver Banksia - Drooping Sheoak open woodland - tall shrubland in protected gullies of the Coolac - Tumut serpentinite belt, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion.
      • 282 Blakely's Red Gum - White Box - Yellow Box - Black Cypress Pine box grass/shrub woodland on clay loam soils on undulating hills of central NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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  • Rainforests
    • Cool Temperate Rainforests
      • 3052 Northern Escarpment Antarctic Beech Rainforest
    • Dry Rainforests
      • 2079 Blakes Wattle - Wilga - Wild Quince - Kurrajong thickets, NSW North Coast Bioregion and New England Tablelands Bioregion
      • 3056 Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
      • 3120 Hunter-Peel Ranges Dry Rainforest
      • 3469 Macleay Gorges Low Scrubby Dry Rainforest
      • 3111 Sydney Hinterland Grey Myrtle Riparian Forest
    • Littoral Rainforests
      • 3127 Mid North Headland Brush Box Littoral Rainforest
    • Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3028 Illawarra Escarpment Warm Temperate Rainforest
      • 3031 Northern Escarpment Coachwood-Beech Rainforest
      • 3032 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Booyong-Corkwood Rainforest
      • 3033 Northern Escarpment Sassafras-Prickly Ash Rainforest
    • Southern Warm Temperate Rainforests
      • 3045 South Coast Temperate Gully Rainforest
    • Subtropical Rainforests
      • 3004 Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
      • 3011 Far North Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3013 Illawarra Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3021 Northern Lowland Subtropical Rainforest
      • 3036 South Coast Warm Temperate-Subtropical Rainforest
    • Western Vine Thickets
      • 3119 Upper Hunter White Box Vine Thicket
  • Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
    • Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
      • 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
      • 257 Dwyer's Red Gum - Currawang grassy low woodland of the central western plains of NSW
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    • Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
      • 75 Yellow Box - White Cypress Pine grassy woodland on deep sandy-loam alluvial soils of the eastern Riverina Bioregion and western NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands
      • 192 Silver-leaved Ironbark - Poplar Box +/- Ironwood shrub - grass woodland on rises in the north-western plains of NSW
    • Western Peneplain Woodlands
      • 98 Poplar Box - White Cypress Pine - Wilga - Ironwood shrubby woodland on red sandy-loam soils in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
  • Wet sclerophyll forests (grassy sub-formation)
    • Montane Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3310 Gulaga Silvertop Ash Moist Forest
      • 3311 Southeast Escarpment Ash Forest
    • Northern Hinterland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3234 Hunter Coast Lowland Spotted Gum Moist Forest
      • 3152 Hunter Range Turpentine-Grey Myrtle Gully Forest
      • 4109 Lower Hunter Screeslope Wet Forest
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    • Northern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3277 Carrai Moist Grassy Forest
      • 3278 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Grassy Forest
      • 3279 Far North Escarpment Blackbutt Moist Forest
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    • Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3267 Shoalhaven Foothills Turpentine Forest
      • 3271 Shoalhaven Spotted Gum-Blackbutt Moist Forest
      • 3272 South Coast Lowland Creekflat Forest
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    • Southern Tableland Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3294 Central Tableland Peppermint-Gum Montane Forest
      • 3303 Central Tableland Ribbon Gum Sheltered Forest
      • 3297 Kosciuszko Snow Gum-Mountain Gum Moist Forest
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  • Wet sclerophyll forests (shrubby sub-formation)
    • North Coast Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3137 Blue Mountains Enriched Blue Gum Moist Forest
      • 3150 Hunter Coast Ranges Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 4115 Koonyum Range Rhyolite Turpentine Wet Forest
      • 3161 Mid North Hinterland Wet Forest
      • 3166 Northern Escarpment Brush Box-Tallowwood-Maple Wet Forest
    • Northern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3202 Mid North Escarpment Ranges Blackbutt Forest
      • 3207 Northern Escarpment Layered Blackbutt Fern Forest
      • 3203 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt Wet Forest
      • 3204 Northern Escarpment New England Blackbutt-Maple Wet Forest
      • 1684 Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple - Bundy open forest of the Liverpool Ranges and Northern Tablelands escarpment
    • Southern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests
      • 3209 Blue Mountains Basalt Cap Forest
      • 3210 Blue Mountains Cool Wet Eucalypt Forest
      • 3211 Central Tableland Montane Wet Forest
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