Last updated:
18 Oct 2022
Distribution of the species within this region
The Black Falcon is known or predicted to occur in the following sub-regions of the
Cobar Peneplain Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation of Australia Region.
Vegetation formations, classes and types
In this region the Black Falcon - Cobar Peneplain is known to
be associated with the following vegetation formations and classes. Click on a name to get background information
about it.
- 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
- Whitewood - Western Rosewood low woodland of the NSW north western plains
- North-west Plain Shrublands
- Derived mixed shrubland on loamy-clay soils in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- Mulga - Ironwood shrubland on loams and clays mainly of the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- Yarran shrubland of the NSW central to northern slopes and plains
- Sand Plain Mulga Shrublands
- Cabbage-tree Wattle shrubland of the inland plains and drainage lines
- Hooked Needlewood - Needlewood - Mulga - Turpentine Bush open shrubland of the semi-arid and arid plains
- Narrow-leaved Hopbush - Scrub Turpentine - Senna shrubland on semi-arid and arid sandplains and dunes.
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- Stony Desert Mulga Shrublands
- Heather Bush - Mulga - Umbrella Mulga open shrubland on gravelly rises mainly in the Mulga Lands Bioregion
- Mulga - Dead Finish on stony hills mainly of the Channel Country Bioregion and Broken Hill Complex Bioregion
- White Cypress Pine - Mulga low open woodland on the stony ranges of the arid zone (far north western NSW).
- 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
- Lunette chenopod shrubland mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- Pearl Bluebush low open shrubland of the arid and semi-arid plains
- Gibber Chenopod Shrublands
- Bluebush shrubland on stony rises and downs in the arid and semi-arid zones
- Bottlewasher - Copperburr grassland of the arid zone
- Mitchell Grass - saltbush grassland/shrubland of the gibber downs of the arid climate zone
- Riverine Chenopod Shrublands
- Black Roly Poly low open shrubland of the Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- Bladder Saltbush chenopod shrubland on alluvial plains mainly in the Darling Riverine Plain Bioregion
- Bladder Saltbush shrubland on alluvial plains in the semi-arid (warm) zone including Riverina Bioregion
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- Freshwater wetlands
- Coastal Freshwater Lagoons
- Coastal Floodplain Phragmites Reedland
- Northern Lower Floodplain Eleocharis Wetland
- Southern Lower Floodplain Freshwater Wetland
- Inland Floodplain Shrublands
- Canegrass swamp tall grassland wetland of drainage depressions, lakes and pans of the inland plains
- Golden Goosefoot shrubland wetland in swamps of the arid and semi-arid (hot summer) zones
- Lignum shrubland wetland of the semi-arid (warm) plains (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
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- Inland Floodplain Swamps
- 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
- Permanent and semi-permanent freshwater lakes wetland of the inland slopes and plains
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- Montane Bogs and Fens
- Munghorn Seepage Wet Herbfield
- Grasslands
- Riverine Plain Grasslands
- Curly Windmill Grass - speargrass - wallaby grass grassland on alluvial clay and loam on the Hay Plain, Riverina Bioregion
- Forb-rich Speargrass - Windmill Grass - White Top grassland of the Riverina Bioregion
- Plains Grass grassland on alluvial mainly clay soils in the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- Semi-arid Floodplain Grasslands
- Mitchell Grass grassland - chenopod low open shrubland on floodplains in the semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
- Partly derived Windmill Grass - copperburr alluvial plains shrubby grassland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Rats Tail Couch sod grassland wetland of inland floodplains
- Temperate Montane Grasslands
- Derived grassland of the South Eastern Highlands Bioregion and South East Corner Bioregion
- Kosciuszko Limestone Grassland
- Monaro Kangaroo Grass Woodland-Grassland Complex
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- Western Slopes Grasslands
- Derived grassland of the NSW South Western Slopes
- 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
- Derived tussock grassland of the central western plains and lower slopes of NSW
- Liverpool Plains grassland mainly on basaltic black earth soils, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Speargrass - Redleg Grass derived grassland on hills in the Jindera to Holbrook region, southern NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- Saline wetlands
- Inland Saline lakes
- Cotton Bush open shrubland of the semi-arid (warm) zone
- Disturbed annual saltbush forbland on clay plains and inundation zones mainly of south-western NSW
- Gypseous shrubland on rises in the semi-arid and arid plains
- Sparse saltbush forbland wetland of the irregularly inundated lakes of the arid and semi-arid (persistently hot) climate zones
- Saltmarshes
- South Coast Selliera-Sea Rush Swamp Oak Saltmarsh
- Semi-arid woodlands (grassy sub-formation)
- Brigalow Clay Plain Woodlands
- Brigalow - Belah open forest / woodland on alluvial often gilgaied clay from Pilliga Scrub to Goondiwindi, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Poplar Box - Yellow Box - Western Grey Box grassy woodland on cracking clay soils mainly in the Liverpool Plains, Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Inland Floodplain Woodlands
- Black Box - Lignum woodland wetland of the inner floodplains in the semi-arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
- 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)
- River Red Gum grassy chenopod open tall woodland (wetland) on floodplain clay soil of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and western Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- North-west Floodplain Woodlands
- Belah woodland on alluvial plains and low rises in the central NSW wheatbelt to Pilliga and Liverpool Plains regions.
- Black Box low woodland wetland lining ephemeral watercourses or fringing lakes and clay pans of semi-arid (hot) and arid zones
- 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
- Central Hunter Weeping Myall Forest
- Weeping Myall open woodland of the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion and Brigalow Belt South Bioregion
- Weeping Myall open woodland of the Riverina Bioregion and NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- Semi-arid woodlands (shrubby sub-formation)
- Dune Mallee Woodlands
- Spinifex linear dune mallee mainly of the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- Inland Rocky Hill Woodlands
- Dwyer's Red Gum - Black Cypress Pine - Currawang shrubby low woodland on rocky hills mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- Dwyer's Red Gum - White Cypress Pine - Currawang shrubby woodland mainly in the NSW South Western Slopes Bioregion
- Gum Coolabah woodland on slopes of sandstone ranges in the Paroo - Darling region, mainly Mulga Lands Bioregion
- Riverine Sandhill Woodlands
- Buloke - Moonah - Black Box open woodland on sandy rises of semi arid (warm) climate zone (mainly Riverina Bioregion and Murray Darling Depression Bioregion)
- White Cypress Pine - Drooping Sheoak grassy open woodland of the Riverine Plain
- White Cypress Pine open woodland of sand plains, prior streams and dunes mainly of the semi-arid (warm) climate zone
- Yarran tall open shrubland of the sandplains and plains of the semi-arid (warm) and arid climate zones
- 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
- Sand Plain Mallee Woodlands
- Chenopod sandplain mallee woodland/shrubland of the arid and semi-arid (warm) zones
- Mallee - Gum Coolabah woodland on red earth flats of the eastern Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- Sandplain mallee of central NSW
- Semi-arid Sand Plain Woodlands
- Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Leopardwood low open woodland on sandplain and sandy flats in semi arid (hot) and arid climate zones
- Belah/Black Oak - Western Rosewood - Wilga woodland of central NSW including the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- Black Oak - Western Rosewood open woodland on deep sandy loams mainly in the Murray Darling Depression Bioregion
- 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
- Western Peneplain Woodlands
- Ironwood woodland of the semi-arid plains
- Poplar Box - Gum Coolabah - White Cypress Pine shrubby woodland mainly in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion
- Poplar Box - Mulga - Ironwood woodland on red loam soils on plains in the Cobar Peneplain Bioregion and north-eastern Mulga Lands Bioregion
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