Badjaling Nature Reserve is a nature reserve managed by the

Department of Parks and Wildlife The Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) was the department of the Government of Western Australia responsible for managing lands described in the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'' and implementing the state's conservation and en ...

, located at Badjaling in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. Nominally located at , it is a reserve of native bushland, surrounded by land long since cleared for agriculture. Vegetation consists of

shrubland Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It m ...

(54%), woodland (32%), a complex of halophytes occurring in a saline watercourse (11%), and a small amount of heath (3%). The woodland is mostly composed of low, shrublike trees of '' Banksia'' and '' Xylomelum''. A 1980 survey recorded 111 plant species in the reserve, but this did not include the endangered ''

Banksia cuneata ''Banksia cuneata'', commonly known as matchstick banksia or Quairading banksia, is an endangered species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae. Endemic to Southwest Australia, southwest Western Australia, it belongs to Banksia subg. Isos ...

'' (Quairading Banksia), which was discovered there in 1971 but not published until 1981. The

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

fauna of the reserve is impoverished. The only native species recorded there are the

common dunnart The slender-tailed dunnart (''Sminthopsis murina''), also known as the common dunnart in Australia, is a dasyurid marsupial. It has an average body length of 7 to 12 centimeters (2.8–4.7 in) with a tail length of 5.5 to 13 centim ...

and Gould's wattled bat. The introduced

house mouse The house mouse (''Mus musculus'') is a small mammal of the order Rodentia, characteristically having a pointed snout, large rounded ears, and a long and almost hairless tail. It is one of the most abundant species of the genus '' Mus''. Althoug ...

black rat The black rat (''Rattus rattus''), also known as the roof rat, ship rat, or house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the stereotypical rat genus ''Rattus'', in the subfamily Murinae. It likely originated in the Indian subcontinent, but is n ...

, European rabbit and

fox Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush''). Twelv ...

have also been recorded. 64 bird species have been recorded, comprising 37 passerines and 27 non-passerines. 5 frogs species are known, and 17 reptiles.

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{{Reflist, 2 Nature reserves in Western Australia Wheatbelt (Western Australia)