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Australian bird habitats:
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Aboriginal names: "egaie" = Mangrove; "nandaloo" = Mangrove tree
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Description of habitat |
Intertidal wetlands attract a large number of bird species, because they form different types of habitat at different times. While dry, waders can hunt by digging into the mud/sand with their bills (for comparison see also the page describing mudflats), while when wet fish hunters populate the shallow water. Many intertidal wetlands are overgrown with mangrove, a family of plant species with sufficient salt resistivity to survive in these conditions. Tropical intertidal wetlands often also have pandanus on their fringes.
Intertidal wetlands are often found in estuaries of major rivers that can also form saltmarshes.
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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.
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Photos |
Black-necked Stork
hunting in intertidal wetland with mangrove at Urunga Heads, NSW
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here one can see how terms describing various habitats overlap,
because the Black-necked
Stork is in fact standing in a mudflat
One of the main food sources for predatory birds such as
egrets and herons
are these mudcrabs
