Last updated:
23 Sep 2022
Distribution of the species within this region
The Swift 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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Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Swift 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.
- Grasslands
- Maritime Grasslands
- 3409 Southern Headland Grassland
- 3410 Spinifex Strandline Grassland
- Temperate Montane Grasslands
- 569 Derived Snow Grass +/- Kangaroo Grass +/- Wild Sorghum tussock grassland of the NSW Northern Tablelands
- 3415 Southern Tableland Red Grass-Spear Grass Grassland
- 1202 Speargrass grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion
- Western Slopes Grasslands
- 710 Bluegrass - Redleg Grass - Common Woodruff clay plain grassland of northern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 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
- 250 Derived tussock grassland of the central western plains and lower slopes of NSW
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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
- 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
- 501 Bendemeer White Gum - Silvertop Stringybark - Rough-barked Apple +/- Moonbi Apple Box grassy open forest of the southern New England Tableland 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
- 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
- 383 Apple Box - Rough-barked Apple terrace flats woodland of the southern Brigalow Belt South 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.
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- Rainforests
- Dry Rainforests
- 3056 Central Eastern Ranges Riparian Dry Rainforest
- 3059 Clarence Lowland Riparian Red Gum Wet Forest
- 3061 Clarence-Richmond Riverine Rainforest
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- Littoral Rainforests
- 3123 Far North Sands Coastal Cypress Littoral Rainforest
- 3124 Far North Sands Tuckeroo-Banksia Littoral Rainforest
- 4113 Far Southeast Littoral Rainforest
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- Northern Warm Temperate Rainforests
- 3025 Central Coast Gallery Rainforest
- 3028 Illawarra Escarpment Warm Temperate Rainforest
- 3029 Lower North Wet Gully Palm Rainforest
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- Southern Warm Temperate Rainforests
- 3045 South Coast Temperate Gully Rainforest
- 3046 Southeast Warm Temperate Rainforest
- Subtropical Rainforests
- 3004 Far North Bangalow Palm Swamp Forest
- 3007 Far North Lowland Black Bean Riverine Rainforest
- 3019 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Booyong Subtropical Rainforest
- 3100 Northern Hinterland Baloghia-Dendrocnide Subtropical Rainforest
- 3036 South Coast Warm Temperate-Subtropical Rainforest
- Western Vine Thickets
- 378 Belah - Wilga +/- White Box dry viney scrub woodland the NSW Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 452 Mixed vine thicket low eucalypt woodland of the northern-western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 147 Mock Olive - Wilga - Peach Bush - Carissa semi-evergreen vine thicket (dry rainforest) mainly on basalt soils in the Brigalow Belt South 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)
- 16 Black Box grassy open woodland wetland of rarely flooded depressions in south western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
- 15 Black Box open woodland wetland with chenopod understorey mainly on the outer floodplains 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.
- 37 Black Box woodland wetland on NSW central and northern floodplains including the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
- Riverine Plain Woodlands
- 4104 Central Hunter Weeping Myall Forest
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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
- 475 White Cypress Pine - Buloke - Grey Box grassy eolian lunette grassy woodland in the southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- 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
- 86 Yellow Gum tall woodland of the Murray River floodplain, Riverina Bioregion
- Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
- 355 Bull Mallee - White Mallee tall mallee woodland on red sandy loam soils in the central western slopes of NSW
- 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
- 173 Sandplain mallee of central NSW
- Western Peneplain Woodlands
- 135 Coobah - Western Rosewood low open tall shrubland or woodland mainly on outwash areas in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
- 145 Western Rosewood - Wilga - Wild Orange - Belah low woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
- 72 White Cypress Pine - Poplar Box woodland on footslopes and peneplains mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion