The Koobabbie Important Bird Area comprises several disjunct, mostly linear, patches of land with a collective area of 254 ha. It lies in the northern wheatbelt region of Western Australia, about 20 km south-east of Coorow. It consists of remnant salmon gum woodlands on the Koobabbie farming property that provide the nesting habitat of large tree hollows necessary for breeding cockatoos.[1]
Birds
editThe site has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports up to 32 nesting pairs, over 1% of the breeding population, of the endangered Carnaby's cockatoo. It also supports populations of western corellas, regent parrots and blue-breasted fairywrens.[2] Malleefowl and bustards have been observed in the IBA though they are not resident there.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Koobabbie. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 18 November 2012. on 2011-07-17.
- ^ "IBA: Koobabbie". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
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