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Coomallo Important Bird Area is a 21 km2 fragmented tract of land in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The western section includes the eastern end of the Coomallo Nature Reserve, while the eastern section comprises several separated remnants of eucalypt woodland. It lies about 200 km north of Perth and 40 km east of coastal Jurien Bay. It was identified and classified by
Coomallo Important Bird Area is a 21 km2 fragmented tract of land in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The western section includes the eastern end of the Coomallo Nature Reserve, while the eastern section comprises several separated remnants of eucalypt woodland. It lies about 200 km north of Perth and 40 km east of coastal Jurien Bay. It was identified and classified by BirdLife International
BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats. BirdLife International's priorities include preventing extinction of bird species, identifying and safeguarding ...
as an Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
(IBA) because it supports up to 40 breeding pairs of the endangered Carnaby's black-cockatoo
Carnaby's black cockatoo (''Zanda latirostris''), also known as the short-billed black cockatoo, is a large black cockatoo endemic to southwest Australia. It was described in 1948 by naturalist Ivan Carnaby. Measuring in length, it has a ...
which nest in large tree hollows in the woodlands and in isolated paddock trees, and feed in native 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 ...
s. It also supports western corella
The western corella (''Cacatua pastinator'') also known as the western long-billed corella, is a species of white cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia.
Taxonomy
Cacatuidae is one of three families of the large and diverse avian order Psit ...
s, regent parrots, rufous treecreeper
The rufous treecreeper (''Climacteris rufus'') is a species of bird in the family Climacteridae. It is endemic to Australia.
Its natural habitats are temperate forest
A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definiti ...
s, blue-breasted fairywrens and western spinebill
The western spinebill (''Acanthorhynchus superciliosus'') is a honeyeater found in the heath and woodland of south-western Australia. Ranging between long, it weighs around . It has a black head, gray back and wings, with a red band behind its ...
s.
References
Wheatbelt (Western Australia) Important Bird Areas of Western Australia {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub