Mudgee-Wollar Important Bird Area is a 1627 km² tract of land in the Central West region of

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, Australia. It lies about 250 km west of Sydney, extending eastwards from the towns of

Mudgee Mudgee is a town in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council local government area as well as being ...

and

Gulgong Gulgong is a 19th-century gold rush town in the Central Tablelands and the wider Central West regions of the Australian state of New South Wales. The town is situated within the Mid-Western Regional Council local government area. It is located ...

, and encompassing the town of

Wollar Wollar is a village in New South Wales, Australia. The town is located north west of the state capital Sydney and north-east of the regional centre of Mudgee, near the Goulburn River National Park. At the , Wollar and the surrounding region h ...

. At its eastern end it adjoins the Greater Blue Mountains

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).

Description

The IBA consists of, and is defined by, woodland remnants used by

regent honeyeater The regent honeyeater (''Anthochaera phrygia'') is a critically endangered bird endemic to southeastern Australia. It is commonly considered a flagship species within its range, with the efforts going into its conservation having positive effe ...

s. It includes the

Goulburn River National Park The Goulburn River National Park is a national park located in New South Wales, Australia, northwest of Sydney and it is south-west of Merriwa. The Goulburn River National Park is located in the Hunter Valley region and covers approximatel ...

and the

Munghorn Gap Nature Reserve The Munghorn Gap Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve that is located in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The reserve is situated on the Great Dividing Range, north-east of Mudgee. The Castle ...

as well as private land. The area experiences average daily temperatures ranging from 2-13 °C in winter to 15-30 °C in summer, with an average annual rainfall of 620 mm.

Birds

The area has been identified by

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as an IBA because it regularly supports

endangered An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching and inv ...

s, as well as small numbers of

diamond firetail The diamond firetail (''Stagonopleura guttata'') is a species of estrildid finch that is endemic to Australia. It has a patchy distribution and generally occupies drier forests and grassy woodlands west of the Great Dividing Range from South ...

s, and rockwarblers in the north-westernmost part of their range.

References

Important Bird Areas of New South Wales Central West (New South Wales) {{CentralWestNSW-geo-stub