Moora Important Bird Area
![Pair of Short-billed Black Cockatoos; one perched in a tree, the other flying towards it](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Calyptorhynchus_latirostris_Carnaby_gnangarra.jpg/250px-Calyptorhynchus_latirostris_Carnaby_gnangarra.jpg)
The site is important for Short-billed Black Cockatoos
Moora Important Bird Area comprises a fragmented area of 685 ha centred on the rural township of Moora, in the wheatbelt region of south-west Western Australia. It lies about 175 km north of Perth. Most of the site is private land.
Birds[]
The site has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports up to 60 breeding pairs of the endangered Short-billed Black Cockatoo as well as a population of the restricted-range Western Corella.[1] The site boundaries are defined by areas of suitable nesting habitat for the cockatoos along two road reserves and within Moora.[2]
References[]
- ^ "IBA: Moora". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Moora. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 16/08/2011.
Coordinates: 30°38′44″S 116°00′26″E / 30.64556°S 116.00722°E
Categories:
- Wheatbelt (Western Australia)
- Important Bird Areas of Western Australia
- Moora, Western Australia
- Western Australia geography stubs