Gidgegannup Important Bird Area is a highly fragmented tract of land, where the fragments are patches of remnant native vegetation, bounded by a circle roughly 12 km in diameter. It is in
south-western Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...
about 30 km north-east of
Perth
Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...
and on the edge of the Perth suburban region. The towns of
Gidgegannup and
Parkerville lie on the periphery. It has been identified by
BirdLife International
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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 at least 450
Baudin's black-cockatoos, as well as small numbers of
Carnaby's black-cockatoos, in roost sites outside the breeding season within foraging range of feeding habitat. The IBA also supports
red-capped parrots,
rufous treecreepers,
western spinebills,
western thornbills and
western yellow robins.
References
Wheatbelt (Western Australia)
Important Bird Areas of Western Australia
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