MALLEE FOWL

Photograph taken around historic town ruins at Innes National Park, South Australia March 2015

533         MALLEE FOWL              Leipoa ocellata

Australia        (374)

Also called Lowan and Malleehen. 55-61 cm. Found in mallee, acacia, paperbark, she oak, and other scrubs; eucalyptus woodlands; coastal heaths mostly on sandy or gravel soils. Range patchy from Pilliga Scrub (NSW) sw through mallee areas of s. NSW, nw Vic and Little Deseret, to Murray mallee of SA, s to Coorong; Yorke and Eyre Pens. and w SA; in WA from sw Nullarbor-Albany n to w coast from c Moore R. to Shark Bay. Recently rediscovered in NT and n SA.