Bindoon-Julimar Important Bird Area
The Bindoon-Julimar Important Bird Area is a fragmented 525 km2 tract of land in the northern Darling Ranges, of south-western Western Australia. It is about 5 km east of the town of Bindoon and 80 km north of Perth, on the edge of the wheatbelt. It lies between the Calingiri and Northern Swan Coastal Plain IBAs.
Description
[edit]Site boundaries of the IBA are defined by blocks of native vegetation known or expected to support nesting and feeding black cockatoos in several reserves, on private land and a Defence Department training area. The native vegetation remains in good condition and there are few nest competitors such as galahs, corellas and feral honeybees. The area has a Mediterranean climate.[1]
Birds
[edit]The site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports at least 110 pairs of breeding short-billed black-cockatoos in both breeding and feeding habitat - the largest population of breeding birds in south-western Australia. The IBA also contains populations of biome-restricted red-capped parrots, rufous treecreepers, western spinebills, western thornbills and western yellow robins.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Bindoon-Julimar. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 29 September 2012. on 2011-12-11.
- ^ "IBA: Bindoon-Julimar". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
31°21′36″S 116°16′32″E / 31.36000°S 116.27556°E
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