Magpie Goose - Brigalow Belt South: Distribution and vegetation associations

Distribution of the species within this region

IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Liverpool Plains	Known	None
Moonie-Barwon Interfluve	Predicted	None
Narrandool	Known	None
Northern Outwash	Known	None
Pilliga	Known	None
Pilliga Outwash	Known	None
Talbragar Valley	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

• Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
  • Gibber Chenopod Shrublands
    • Bottlewasher - Copperburr grassland of the arid zone
  • Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
    • Bladder Saltbush chenopod shrubland on alluvial plains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
    • Chenopod low open shrubland - ephemeral partly derived forbland saline wetland on occasionally flooded pale clay scalds in the NSW North Western Plains
    • Copperburr low open shrubland on loam - clay flats and playas, western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and northern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Derived Copperburr shrubland of the NSW northern inland alluvial floodplains
    • Dillon Bush (Nitre Bush) shrubland of the semi-arid and arid zones
    • Galvanized Burr derived low shrubland of the Brigalow Belt South and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Old Man Saltbush - mixed chenopod shrubland of the semi-arid hot (persistently dry) and arid climate zones (north-western NSW)
    • Slender Saltbush - samphire - copperburr low open shrubland wetland on irreguarly innundated floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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• Forested wetlands
  • Coastal Floodplain Wetlands
    • Coastal Creekline Dry Shrubby Swamp Forest
    • Estuarine Sea Rush Swamp Oak Forest
    • Estuarine Swamp Oak Twig-rush Forest
    • Far North Creekflat Paperbark Swamp Forest
    • Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak Forest
    • Far North Floodplain Red Gum Sedge Forest
    • Far North Hinterland Flats Mesic Apple Forest
    • Far North Swamp Oak-Tuckeroo Swamp Fringe Forest
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  • Coastal Swamp Forests
    • Clarence Lowland Paperbark Sedge Swamp Woodland
    • Coastal Floodplain Swamp Paperbark Scrub
    • Far North Floodplain Paperbark-Swamp Oak Forest
    • Far North Mesophyll Paperbark Swamp Forest
    • Far North Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
    • Far North Paperbark Gahnia Swamp Forest
    • Far North Sands Swamp Turpentine-Paperbark Forest
    • Far North Swamp Oak-Paperbark Tidal Forest
    • Northern Estuarine Paperbark Sedge Forest
    • Northern Floodplain Paperbark Fern Swamp Forest
    • Northern Melaleuca quinquenervia Swamp Forest
    • Northern Sands Paperbark Sedge Low Forest
    • Northern Sands Swamp Mahogany Shrubby Rush Forest
    • Northern Sandy Alluvium Heathy Swamp Forest
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  • Eastern Riverine Forests
    • Northern Coastal River Oak Wet Forest
    • Northern Hinterland Grassy River Oak Forest
    • Northwest River Oak-Apple Forest
    • Northwest River Oak-River Red Gum Forest
    • Northwest River Red Gum-River Oak Sheltered Forest
  • Inland Riverine Forests
    • Blakely's Red Gum x Dirty Gum - White Cypress Pine tall riparian woodland, NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • River Red Gum riparian tall woodland / open forest wetland in the Nandewar Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • River Red Gum swampy woodland wetland on cowals (lakes) and associated flood channels in central NSW
    • River Red Gum tall to very tall open forest / woodland wetland on rivers on floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Weeping Bottlebrush - Rough-barked Apple riparian low open forest / tall shrubland wetland mainly in the Briglaow Belt South Bioregion

• Freshwater wetlands
  • Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
    • Castlereagh Gravel Sedgeland
    • Coast Sands Baumea articulata Sedgeland
    • Coast Sands Cladium Sedgeland
    • Coast Sands Lepironia Sedgeland
    • Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
    • Estuarine Reedland
    • Far North Floodplain Fern-Forb Wetland
    • Far North Floodplain Forb-Sedge Wetland
    • Far North Floodplain Paperbark Sedge Wetland
    • Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
    • Northern Sands Baloskion-Baumea Wetland
    • Northern Sands Baumea-Eleocharis Sedgeland
    • Northern Sands Chorizandra Sedgeland
    • Northern Sands Water Couch Wetland
    • Northern Sandy Floodplain Sedge Paperbark Wetland
    • Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
    • Southern Sands Freshwater Lagoon Wetland
    • Spirodella freshwater wetland
    • Sydney Creekflat Wetland
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  • Coastal Heath Swamps
    • Lower North Sands Swamp Scrub
    • Lower North Sands Wallum Bottlebrush Swamp Heath
    • Northern Sandplain Saw-sedge-Fern Swamp Heath
    • Northern Sandplain Wet Heath
    • Northern Sands Prickly Tea-tree Wet Shrubland
  • Inland Floodplain Shrublands
    • Budda Pea - Channel Millet ephemeral reedland wetland on floodplains in north-western NSW
    • Canegrass swamp tall grassland wetland of drainage depressions, lakes and pans of the inland plains
    • Eurah shrubland of inland floodplains
    • Lignum shrubland wetland on floodplains and depressions of the Mulga Lands Bioregion, Channel Country Bioregion in the arid and semi-arid (hot) climate zones
    • Lignum shrubland wetland on regularly flooded alluvial depressions in the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Nitre Goosefoot shrubland wetland on clays of the inland floodplains
    • River Coobah swamp wetland on the floodplains of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Spotted Fuchsia shrubland wetland in drainage depressions on inland plains
    • Swamp Paper-bark shrubland wetland ringing depressions in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
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  • Inland Floodplain Swamps
    • Artesian Mound Spring sedgeland wetland mainly of the Mulga Lands Bioregion
    • Common Reed - Bushy Groundsel aquatic tall reedland grassland wetland of inland river systems
    • Cumbungi rushland wetland of shallow semi-permanent water bodies and inland watercourses
    • Cyperus - Typha sedgeland wetland of the arid zone climate zone
    • Gilgai wetland mosaic in the southern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
    • Marsh Club-rush wetland very tall sedgeland of inland watercourses, mainly Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
    • Pilliga tank gilgai wetland sedgeland rushland, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Reedland - tussock grass - segeland fen swampy wetland of impeded creeks in southern Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Riparian sedgeland rushland wetland of the Pilliga to Goonoo sandstone forests, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Sedgeland - forbland wetland in depressions on valley flats of the NSW North-western Slopes
    • Sedgeland fen wetland of spring-fed or runoff-fed creeks in the southern Pilliga - Warrumbungle Range region, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Shallow freshwater wetland sedgeland in depressions on floodplains on inland alluivial plains and floodplains
    • Shallow marsh wetland of regularly flooded depressions on floodplains mainly in the semi-arid (warm) climatic zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • Southwest Floodplain Wetland Meadow
    • Swamp grassland wetland of the Riverine Plain
    • Swamp Paper-bark very tall shrubland wetland on sodic soils in the Pilliga Scrub region
    • Warrego Grass - Nardoo wet grassland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Water Couch marsh grassland wetland of frequently flooded inland watercourses
    • Wetland on sodic soils in the Yetman-Yelarbon region, mainly Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
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  • Montane Lakes
    • Tableland Semi-permanent Shallow Wetlands

• Grasslands
  • Riverine Plain Grasslands
    • Plains Grass grassland on alluvial mainly clay soils in the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
  • Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
    • Couch Grass grassland wetland on river banks and floodplains of inland river systems
    • Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
    • Native Millet - Cup Grass grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Partly derived Windmill Grass - copperburr alluvial plains shrubby grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
    • Queensland Bluegrass +/- Mitchell Grass grassland on cracking clay floodplains and alluvial plains mainly the northern-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Rats Tail Couch sod grassland wetland of inland floodplains
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  • Western Slopes Grasslands
    • Derived tussock grassland of the central western plains and lower slopes of NSW

• Miscellaneous ecosystems
  • Highly disturbed areas with no or limited native vegetation
    • Highly disturbed areas - road verges, table drains, road embankments, ploughed paddocks etc.
  • Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
    • Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

• Rainforests
  • Subtropical Rainforests
    • Far North Estuarine Swamp Oak Rainforest

• Saline wetlands
  • Inland Saline lakes
    • Ephemeral forbland wetland of low-saline lake-beds of the arid and semi-arid (warm) climate zones
    • Submerged flora of saline permanent wetland of the arid zone
    • Submerged flora of saline temporary wetland of the arid zone
  • Mangrove Swamps
    • Grey Mangrove-River Mangrove Forest
  • Saltmarshes
    • Samphire Saltmarsh
    • Sporobolus virginicus Saltmarsh

• Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
  • Inland Floodplain Woodlands
    • Black Box grassy open woodland wetland of rarely flooded depressions in south western NSW (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
    • 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)
  • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
    • Black Box woodland wetland on NSW central and northern floodplains including the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion.
    • Coolabah - River Coobah - Lignum woodland wetland of frequently flooded floodplains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
    • Coolabah open woodland wetland with chenopod/grassy ground cover on grey and brown clay floodplains
    • Poplar Box - Coolabah floodplain woodland on light clay soil mainly in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion