Granite Downs Explained

Granite Downs was a 90000NaN0 cattle station in arid northern South Australia.

It is now part of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands.[1]

Birds

A 5520NaN0 part of Granite Downs has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports a population of the near threatened chestnut-breasted whiteface at its north-western distribution limit. It also supports populations of the inland dotterel, Bourke's parrot, banded whiteface, black honeyeater, pied honeyeater, cinnamon quail-thrush, chiming wedgebill and thick-billed grasswren.[2]

References

-27.0169°N 133.5208°W

Notes and References

  1. BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Granite Downs. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 28/06/2011
  2. Web site: IBA: Ganite Downs . 2011-06-24 . Birdata . Birds Australia . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706102341/http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm . 6 July 2011 . dmy-all .