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Site description (2009 baseline):
Site location and context
This IBA is defined for Spotted Gum and other flowering eucalypts used by Swift Parrots. The current IBA boundary is approximate based largely on surveys in 2009 that recorded Swift Parrots in Spotted Gum forests between Ulladulla and Merimbula. The IBA boundary follows the estimated extent of Spotted Gum forests, extending about 10 km inland of the coast between Ulladulla and Merimbula, but further surveys are needed to refine the boundary, particularly its inland (western) extent. The IBA also includes forests dominated by a range of other eucalpys, of which various ironbarks and bloodwoods are likley to support Swift Parrots in years in whcih the Spotted Gums are not flowering. The IBA also includes large areas of cattle-grazed pasture between forest blocks, and small areas of urban development and agriculture. These artifical habitats are likely to be of some value to Swift Parrots which utilise scattered large flowering tress and small remnants of native vegetation in otherwise modified landscapes.
There have been occasional scattered records of the endangered Regent Honeyeater in the IBA.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Ensure that residential and industrial development conserves Spotted Gum forests, and develop appropriate forestry prescriptions that allow for the protection of adequate amounts of habitat at known and potential Swift Parrot sites within the IBA.
The IBA overlaps with 18 protected areas.
State government (state forest, protected areas and leasehold properties); private.
Chris Tzaros supplied much of the data for this IBA nomination.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Ulladulla to Merimbula (Australia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/ulladulla-to-merimbula-iba-australia on 22/12/2024.
