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Threatened species

Black-tailed Godwit - Nandewar: Distribution and vegetation associations

Scientific name: Limosa limosa
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerableexternal link
Commonwealth status: Endangeredexternal link
Last updated: 26 Feb 2024

Distribution of the species within this region

The Black-tailed Godwit is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the Nandewar Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.

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IBRA sub-region  Known or predictedGeographic restrictions within region
Kaputar Predicted None
Peel Predicted None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

In this region the Black-tailed Godwit - Nandewar 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
      • 3960 Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
      • 3959 Coast Sands Jointed Twig-rush Sedgeland
      • 3961 Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
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    • Coastal Heath Swamps
      • 3912 Northern Sand Swale Paperbark Sedge Shrubland
      • 3915 Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
    • Inland Floodplain Shrublands
      • 375 Budda Pea - Channel Millet ephemeral reedland wetland on floodplains in north-western NSW
      • 115 Eurah shrubland of inland floodplains
      • 161 Golden Goosefoot shrubland wetland in swamps of the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) zones
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    • Inland Floodplain Swamps
      • 66 Artesian Mound Spring sedgeland wetland mainly of the Mulga Lands Bioregion
      • 226 Cyperus - Typha sedgeland wetland of the arid zone climate zone
      • 238 Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
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    • Montane Lakes
      • 3978 Morass Margin Shallow Wetlands
      • 3979 Northern Basalt Benches Intermittent Swamps
      • 3980 Southern Lacustrine Herbfield
      • 3981 Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands
  • Saline wetlands
    • Inland Saline lakes
      • 166 Disturbed annual saltbush forbland on clay plains and inundation zones mainly of south-western NSW
      • 189 Ephemeral forbland wetland of low-saline lake-beds of the arid and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
      • 149 Neverfail Grass - ephemeral herbaceous grassland forbland of interdune claypans mainly in the arid climate zone
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    • Mangrove Swamps
      • 4090 Far North Estuarine Mangrove-Swamp Oak Forest
      • 4140 Far North Mangrove Forest
      • 4091 Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
    • Saltmarshes
      • 4094 Estuarine Club Rush-Arrowgrass Wetland
      • 4095 Paspalum vaginatum-Samphire Saltmarsh
      • 4096 Prickly Couch-Sea Rush Saltmarsh
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  • Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
    • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
      • 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.
      • 39 Coolabah - River Coobah - Lignum woodland wetland of frequently flooded floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
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