Important Bird Area
Over 200 bird species have been recorded in the park, which forms part of the Murray-Sunset, Hattah and Annuello Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because it contains mallee habitat supporting a suite of threatened mallee bird, including the Malleefowl, Black-eared Miner and Mallee Emu-wren.
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