Cataby Important Bird Area

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Cataby Important Bird Area is a 314-hectare area about 2 km south of the town of Cataby, beside the Brand Highway in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt. BirdLife International has designated it as an Important Bird Area because it supports up to 24 breeding pairs of the endangered short-billed black cockatoo. The birds nest in patches of remaining eucalypt woodland and in isolated paddock trees, and they feed in native shrublands. The site also provides habitat for the restricted-range western corella and hosts a globally significant population of the regent parrot.