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Australian bird habitats:
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Aboriginal names: "punituk" [tjapwurrung]
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Description of habitat |
This page describes mallee, which is a special type of woodland or scrub. Mallee is defined as a habit of plants with underground lignotubers that may initially grow with a single trunk, but then - usually in recovery from bushfire - develop multiple thinner trunks/stems above the surface. Most of these plants, which then grow to a maximum height of less than 10 m, are in the family Eucalyptus. This type of (re-)growth is a specialization of plants in semi-arid environments with reliable winter rainfall.
Where these types of plants dominate, the term "mallee" is accordingly also used to stand for the type of habitat that they create.
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Photos |
Below we display examples of mallee, with bird species regularly found in this type of habitat.
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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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Example of mallee, with eucalypts growing multiple thin stems,
rather than a single large trunk (photo courtesy of J. Wilson)
Example of mallee, with eucalypts growing multiple thin stems,
rather than a single large trunk; here a ute is shown for
comparison (photo courtesy of J. Wilson)
