Goyder Lagoon
The Goyder Lagoon 26.784444444444139.13361111111Koordinaten: 26 ° 47 '4 " S, 139 ° 8 ' 1" O is a large part of the year filled with water wetland in the northeast of the Australian state of South Australia.
It is located northeast of the Birdsville Track, close to the Queensland border and is part of the floodplain of the Diamantina River. Particularly high water levels in the Georgina River and in the Mulligan River can ensure that the sump is fed on its northwest side on the Eyre Creek water. The water drainage is via the Warburton River. The largest part of the marsh consists of shallow, braided, small channels. The area belongs to the cattle station Clifton Hills on Crown land.
On average, the annual rainfall averages 100-150 mm, and the summer maximum temperatures 36-39 ° C.
An area of 2684 km ², including the Goyder Lagoon was by BirdLife International for Important Bird Area (IBA ) explains mainly because to settle there at high tide many water birds. 2002 estimated a total of 170,000 pieces in a count from the air. The largest concentrations of waterfowl can be found in the southern part of the swamp, including various types of cormorants, ducks, herons and ibises. In the IBA about 1% of the world portfolio can be found in monkeys ducks ( Stictonetta naevosa ) Lachseeschwalben ( Gelochelidon nilotica ) and brooding king spoonbills ( Platalea regia). A small population of Safrantrugschmätzers (Yellow Chat, Ephthianura crocea ) from the family of honeyeater found in Koonchera Waterhole. Other bird species for which the marsh provides an important habitat that Schwarzachselaar (Letter -winged Kite, Elanus scriptus ), the belt Plover ( Charadrius australis), the Australian singer brewing Grasswren ( Amytornis barbatus) and Eyregrasschlüpfer ( Amytornis goyderi ), honey eaters like the are mourning honeyeater ( Sugomel nigrum. syn Certhionyx niger), the Magpie honey eater ( Certhionyx variegatus ) and Desert Trugschmätzer ( Gibberella Bird, Ashbyia lovensis ), the Banded Whiteface ( nigricincta Aphelocephala, Family South Seas warblers ), the Buschflöter ( Chirruping Wedgebill, Psophodes cristatus ) and the Zimtflöter ( Cinnamon Quail - Trush, Cinclosoma cinnamomeum ).