Buckley River Important Bird Area

The Buckley River Important Bird Area comprises a 4790 km2 tract of land in the Gulf Country of north-western Queensland, Australia.

Areas favoured by the grasswrens are characterised by laterites, shallow loams and clays, and skeletal soils.

[1] The vegetation generally consists of tropical savanna open woodland, with scattered shrubs and trees of Eucalyptus leucophylla, E. leucophloia and Corymbia terminalis, and a ground layer of large Triodia hummocks separated by bare ground.

In the south of the IBA there are small areas of the grass Dichanthium fecundum and Astrebla tussock grassland on clay plains.

It also supports dusky and Kalkadoon grasswrens, Australian bustards, varied lorikeets, white-gaped, yellow-tinted, banded and grey-headed honeyeaters, silver-crowned friarbirds, long-tailed finches, painted firetails and spinifexbirds.