Last updated:
25 Feb 2024
Distribution of the species within this region
The Diamond Firetail is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
NSW South Western Slopes Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Diamond Firetail - NSW South Western Slopes 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 (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
- North Coast Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3568 Clarence Sandstone Stringybark Heathy Woodland
- 3569 Clarence Sandstone Stringybark-Blackbutt Forest
- 4160 Mid North Conglomerate Blackbutt Shrub Forest
- 3577 Yuraygir Range Bloodwood-Stringybark Forest
- Northern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 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
- 503 Black Cypress Pine - Orange Gum heath shrubland or woodland on granite outcrops of the New England Tableland Bioregion
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- South East Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3643 Bungonia Tableland Silvertop Ash-Stringybark Forest
- 3650 Goulburn-Lithgow Ranges Silvertop Ash Forest
- 3653 Kanangra Peaks Silvertop Ash Forest
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- Southern Tableland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 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
- 700 Blakely's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine dry shrub forest of the Lower Abercrombie area of the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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- Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3601 Burragorang Footslopes Scribbly Gum Forest
- 3605 Hunter Range Ironbark Forest
- 1666 Narrow-leaved Stringybark - Fringe Myrtle - Scaly Phebalium heathy woodland on exposed sandstone ranges of the Sydney Basin
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- Sydney Montane Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3693 Upper Blue Mountains Peppermint Dry Forest
- Sydney Sand Flats Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 3629 Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland
- Western Slopes Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 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
- 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
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- Yetman Dry Sclerophyll Forests
- 370 Black Cypress Pine - Dirty Gum - bloodwood - She Oak open forest on siliceous hills in the northern NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 672 Black Cypress Pine - Narrow-leaved Ironbark - Dirty Gum grassy open forest of north western Nandewar Bioregion
- 369 Blakely's Red Gum - Smooth-barked Apple shrub swamp woodland on siliceous white sands in the Yetman region
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- Freshwater wetlands
- Inland Floodplain Shrublands
- 375 Budda Pea - Channel Millet ephemeral reedland wetland on floodplains in north-western NSW
- 247 Lignum shrubland wetland on regularly flooded alluvial depressions in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- Montane Bogs and Fens
- 3391 Munghorn Seepage Wet Herbfield
- 4164 New England Peppermint Swamp Margin Woodland
- Montane Lakes
- 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands
- Grasslands
- Maritime Grasslands
- 3407 Central Headland Grassland
- 3410 Spinifex Strandline Grassland
- Riverine Plain Grasslands
- 46 Curly Windmill Grass - speargrass - wallaby grass grassland on alluvial clay and loam on the Hay Plain, Riverina Bioregion
- 165 Derived corkscrew grass grassland/forbland on sandplains and plains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
- 44 Forb-rich Speargrass - Windmill Grass - White Top grassland of the Riverina Bioregion
- 45 Plains Grass grassland on alluvial mainly clay soils in the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- 1203 Speargrass natural grassland of the sandplains of the Murray Darling Bioregion
- Temperate Montane Grasslands
- 797 Derived grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and South East Corner Bioregion
- 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
- 895 Kangaroo Grass - Purple Wire-grass - Mat-rush - Wallaby Grass - Common Buttons dry tussock grassland on steep sites in the north-western and Eastern parts of the Southern Tablelands of the South Easte
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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
- 484 Derived tall spear grass grassland on mainly basalt hills of the Liverpool Plains, Liverpool Range and in the upper Hunter Valley (Merriwa district), south-eastern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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- Grassy woodlands
- Coastal Valley Grassy Woodlands
- 3313 Araluen Scarp Grassy Forest
- 3315 Central Hunter Ironbark-Spotted Gum Forest
- 3314 Central Hunter Slopes Grey Box Forest
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- Floodplain Transition Woodlands
- 628 Carbeen +/- Coolabah grassy woodland on floodplain clay loam soil on north-western NSW floodplains, mainly Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
- 248 Mixed box eucalypt woodland on low sandy-loam rises on alluvial plains in central western NSW
- 251 Mixed Eucalypt woodlands of floodplains in the southern-eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
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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
- 703 Blakely's Red Gum - Yellow Box - Rough-barked Apple grassy woodland of the Capertee Valley, Sydney Basin Bioregion
- 705 Blakely's Red Gum moist sedgey woodland on flats and drainage lines of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
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- Subalpine Woodlands
- 3379 Barrington-Point Lookout Montane Grassy Forest
- 3383 Kosciuszko Subalpine Hollows Black Sally Woodland
- 1191 Snow Gum - Candle Bark woodland on broad valley flats of the tablelands and slopes, South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- 3385 Southern Tableland Creekflat Swamp Woodland
- Tableland Clay Grassy Woodlands
- 3337 Bondo Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
- 513 Candlebark - Ribbon Gum grassy woodland of the New England Tableland Bioregion
- 3338 Goulburn Tableland Frost Hollow Grassy Woodland
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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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- Heathlands
- Coastal Headland Heaths
- 3788 Coastal Foredune Wattle Scrub
- 3792 Far Southeast Headland Scrub
- 3793 Hunter Coast Headland Clay Heath
- Northern Montane Heaths
- 3827 Eastern New England Leucogranite Mallee Scrub
- 3854 New England Rockplate Shrubland
- 4128 Northern New England Rock Outcrop Shrubland
- 4132 Western New England Rocky Granite Shrubland
- Sydney Coastal Heaths
- 3813 Sydney Hinterland Dwarf Apple Low Woodland
- 3814 Woronora Plateau Heath-Mallee
- Sydney Montane Heaths
- 3865 Western Blue Mountains Pagoda Scrub
- 3866 Wollemi Rockplate Scrub
- Rainforests
- Dry Rainforests
- 3120 Hunter-Peel Ranges Dry Rainforest
- Western Vine Thickets
- 378 Belah - Wilga +/- White Box dry viney scrub woodland the NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 445 Brigalow viney scrub open forest on loamy soils in low hill landscapes in the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 442 Carbeen tall open woodland - Mock Olive tall closed vine thicket on basalt hills in the Northern Basalt sub-region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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- Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
- Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands
- 35 Brigalow - Belah open forest / woodland on alluvial often gilgaied clay from Pilliga Scrub to Goondiwindi, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 629 Brigalow - Bladder Saltbush open woodland to tall open shrubland in the Come-By-Chance region, Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 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
- 16 Black Box grassy open woodland wetland of rarely flooded depressions in south western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
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- North-west Floodplain Woodlands
- 55 Belah woodland on alluvial plains and low rises in the central NSW wheatbelt to Pilliga and Liverpool Plains regions.
- 38 Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
- 37 Black Box woodland wetland on NSW central and northern floodplains including the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
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- Riverine Plain Woodlands
- 27 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 26 Weeping Myall open woodland of the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
- Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
- 357 Beyeria - Mintbush - Tumbledown Red Gum shrubland - low woodland on conglomerate outcrops in the Wellington region, NSW central western slopes
- 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
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- North-west Alluvial Sand Woodlands
- 428 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - Curracabah - White Box tall woodland on sand in the Narrabri - Warialda region of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 71 Carbeen - White Cypress Pine - River Red Gum - bloodwood tall woodland on sandy loam alluvial and eolian soils in the northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- 206 Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall woodland of alluvial sand (sand monkeys) in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 376 Mixed scrub low open woodland on sand rises and dunes on floodplains in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 227 Silver-leaved Ironbark - White Cypress Pine - Rough-barked Apple woodland on alluvial terraces in central-north NSW
- Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
- 20 Buloke - Moonah - Black Box open woodland on sandy rises of semi arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
- 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
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- Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
- 142 Broombush shrubland in the mallee landscapes of the temperate and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
- 170 Chenopod sandplain mallee woodland/shrubland of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
- 174 Mallee - Gum Coolabah woodland on red earth flats of the eastern Cobar Peneplain 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
- Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
- 59 Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Leopardwood low open woodland on sandplain and sandy flats in semi arid (hot) and arid climate zones
- 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
- 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
- 135 Coobah - Western Rosewood low open tall shrubland or woodland mainly on outwash areas in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
- 108 Gum Coolabah - Mulga open woodland on gravel ridges of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- 134 Ironwood woodland of the semi-arid plains
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