Riverland Mallee Important Bird Area

The Riverland Mallee Important Bird Area comprises a 12,200 square kilometres (4,700 square miles) tract of mallee habitat and riverine woodland extending from near Waikerie in the Riverland region in eastern South Australia north-eastwards into south-western New South Wales.

In New South Wales it includes Scotia Sanctuary as well as several areas of uncleared native vegetation.

Threats include inappropriate fire regimes, fox predation, and grazing by feral and domestic herbivores.

[1] The site has been identified by BirdLife International as an IBA because it supports the largest population of the critically endangered black-eared miner as well as populations of malleefowl, bush stone-curlews, red-lored whistlers, regent parrots, striated grasswrens, shy heathwrens, southern scrub-robins, hooded robins, chestnut quail-thrushes and purple-gaped honeyeaters.

Ephemeral wetlands support large numbers of sharp-tailed sandpipers and freckled ducks when water conditions are suitable.