Flock Bronzewing - Channel Country: Distribution and vegetation associations

Distribution of the species within this region

IBRA sub-region	Known or predicted	Geographic restrictions within region
Bulloo	Known	None
Bulloo Dunefields	Predicted	None
Central Depression	Predicted	None
Core Ranges	Predicted	None
Sturt Stony Desert	Known	None

Vegetation formations, classes and types

• Arid shrublands (Acacia sub-formation)
  • Gibber Transition Shrublands
    • Black Box - Gidgee - chenopod low open woodland wetland on alluvial clay soils in the Culgoa River region of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Mulga Lands Bioregion
    • Gidgee chenopod woodland on red-brown clays in the semi-arid (hot) climate zone mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion.
    • Gidgee of the intermittent watercourses or the arid zone (mainly Channel Country Bioregion and Simpson Strezlecki Dunefields Bioregion)
  • North-west Plain Shrublands
    • Leopardwood low woodland mainly on clayey soils in the semi-arid zone
  • Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
    • Sandplain Mulga tall shrubland - open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid climate zones
    • Senna - Mulga - Needlewood open shrubland on loam-clay soils in swales and on the edges of claypans in the arid zone
    • White Cypress Pine - Mulga shrubland on plains and sandplains in the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) climate zones.
    • Woollybutt Grass open grassland on red earths of the inland plains
  • Stony Desert Mulga Shrublands
    • Bastard Mulga tall open shrubland of the semi-arid (hot) and arid climate zones
    • Heather Bush - Mulga - Umbrella Mulga open shrubland on gravelly rises mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
    • Horse Mulga - Umbrella Mulga shrubland on ranges in the arid and semi-arid climate zones
    • Mulga - Dead Finish on stony hills mainly of the Channel Country Bioregion and Broken Hill Complex Bioregion
    • Mulga - Rock Fuchsia-bush sparse shrubland of silcrete scarps and mesas of the Channel Country Bioregion
    • Mulga shrubland on stony rises in the arid and semi-arid climate zones, mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
    • Porcupine Grass - Red Mallee - Gum Coolabah hummock grassland / low sparse woodland on metamorphic ranges on the Barrier Range, Broken Hill Complex Bioregion
    • Umbrella Mulga - Beefwood open shrubland on Peery Hills, Mulga Lands Bioregion
    • White Cypress Pine - Mulga low open woodland on the stony ranges of the arid zone (far north western NSW).
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• Arid shrublands (Chenopod sub-formation)
  • Aeolian Chenopod Shrublands
    • Black Bluebush low open shrubland of the alluvial plains and sandplains of the arid and semi-arid zones
    • Bladder Saltbush low open chenopod shrubland of the Strzelecki dunefields of the arid climate zone
    • Low Bluebush - Bladder Saltbush open shrubland of the arid zone
    • Pearl Bluebush low open shrubland of the arid and semi-arid plains
  • Gibber Chenopod Shrublands
    • Bladder Saltbush shrubland on stony plains and downs of the arid zone
    • Bluebush shrubland on stony rises and downs in the arid and semi-arid zones
    • Bottlewasher - Copperburr grassland of the arid zone
    • Cotton Bush - copperburr open shrubland of the arid climate zone
    • Kerosene Grass - Mulka grass - short grassland/forbland of the arid zone
    • Mitchell Grass - saltbush grassland/shrubland of the gibber downs of the arid climate zone
    • Prickly Wattle open shrubland of drainage lines on stony rises and plains of the arid climate zone
    • Shrubby Twinleaf - saltbush open shrubland on silcrete scarps of the arid zone
    • Windmill Grass - love grass - daisy derived grassland/forbland of arid climate zone
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  • 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
    • Derived corkscrew grass grassland/forbland on sandplains and plains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
    • 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)
    • Old Man Saltbush shrubland mainly of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (south 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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• Freshwater wetlands
  • Inland Floodplain Swamps
    • Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains

• Grasslands
  • Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
    • 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
  • Western Slopes Grasslands
    • Derived tussock grassland of the central western plains and lower slopes of NSW
    • Windmill Grass - Bluegrass derived grassland of the Moree plains of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion

• Miscellaneous ecosystems
  • Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)
    • Water bodies, rivers, lakes, streams (not wetlands)

• Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
  • North-west Floodplain Woodlands
    • Coolabah open woodland wetland with chenopod/grassy ground cover on grey and brown clay floodplains
    • Coolabah woodland wetland of intermittent watercourses in arid zone, mainly in the Channel Country Bioregion
  • Riverine Plain Woodlands
    • Weeping Myall open woodland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion

• Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
  • Desert Woodlands
    • Desert Bloodwood - Mulga low woodland of the semi-arid plains
    • Western Bloodwood - Whitewood low open woodland on Tibooburra Granite
  • Subtropical Semi-arid Woodlands
    • Buck Spinifex shrubby hummock grassland / Coolabah Apple - Silver-leaved Ironbark open woodland on deep sand in the Enngonia to Cumborah regions, north western NSW
    • Whitewood low open woodland of the Brigalow Belt South Bioregion and north-eastern Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion
  • Western Peneplain Woodlands
    • Ironwood woodland of the semi-arid plains