adelaide, mary, river, floodplains, square, kilometres, region, comprising, adjoining, floodplains, adelaide, mary, rivers, australia, northern, territory, lies, east, city, darwin, west, kakadu, national, park, alligator, rivers, where, rivers, flow, northwar. The Adelaide and Mary River Floodplains are a 2 687 square kilometres 1 037 sq mi region comprising the adjoining floodplains of the Adelaide and Mary Rivers in the Top End of Australia s Northern Territory It lies east of the city of Darwin and west of Kakadu National Park and the Alligator Rivers IBA where the rivers flow northwards through seasonally inundated tropical lowlands into the Van Diemen Gulf 1 The IBA supports nearly 200 000 Wandering Whistling DucksBirds editThe floodplains have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area IBA because they support over 1 of the world populations of several species of waterbirds including magpie geese up to 800 000 wandering whistling ducks 188 000 pied herons 2000 red necked avocets 3000 little curlews 12 000 Far Eastern curlews 1050 and sharp tailed sandpipers 2500 There are large breeding colonies containing 30 000 mixed waterbirds significant numbers of bush stone curlews and 11 species that either have restricted ranges or are confined to savanna biomes 1 References edit a b IBA Adelaide amp Mary River Floodplains Birdata Birds Australia Archived from the original on 6 July 2011 Retrieved 20 May 2011 This article about a river in the Northern Territory Australia is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Adelaide and Mary River Floodplains amp oldid 918874291, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
