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Australian bird habitats:
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Aboriginal names: "gilba", "warabo" = grass
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Description of habitat |
Parts of the Australian continent are covered with grass, with little or no other, especially higher, vegetation. Natural open grassland is mostly found in the semi-arid interior of the continent. The area covered by grassland has increased since white settlement as a consequence of land clearing for livestock, in the form of paddocks and pasture.
Note that there is a separate page on Triodia ("Spinifex") grass.
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Bird species found in this type of habitat or plant |
This is not necessarily a complete list. We display here some examples of bird species found by us in this kind of habitat or plant. Hover your cursor on thumbnails to see names of species; click on thumbnail to go to the page describing the species.
The list of birds shown here coincides largely with that for paddocks.
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Photos |
Open grassland to the east of Wilpena Pound in SA; only in the
foreground a few shrubs
and some scrub can be seen
Open grassland at Sturt
NP with low shrubs
after two years of good inland rainfall; in times of drought this will
be gibber country
Spotted Harrier
hunting in its typical way, low above grassland, which in this case
is a paddock
Golden-headed Cisticola scrambling out
of tall grass, where is has been feeding on the ground, between the tussocks
[Eulah Creek, NSW, May 2013]
