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Bulloo and Diamantina rivers

Country/Territory Australia
Area 0 km2
Altitude 0 - 0 m
Priority -
Habitat loss -
Knowledge -

General characteristics

The Bulloo river is an isolated drainage system in north-west New South Wales and south-west Queensland, and the Diamantina river is in south-west Queensland and north-east South Australia. These two widely separated localities are home to Grey Grasswren Amytornis barbatus (races barbatus and diamantina), which inhabits patches of seasonally swampy grassland and shrubland. The habitat does not appear to have been degraded by pastoralism, the main land-use, and is under no immediate threat (Garnett 1993).

Restricted-range species


Species IUCN Red List category
Grey Grasswren (Amytornis barbatus) LC

Important Bird & Biodiversity Areas (IBAs)
Country IBA Name IBA Book Code
Australia Bulloo Floodplain
Australia Diamantina Floodplain
Australia Goyder Lagoon
Australia Lake Machattie Area

Threat and conservation


Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Endemic Bird Area factsheet: Bulloo and Diamantina rivers. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/eba/factsheet/416 on 22/11/2024.