 It adjoins the Murrumbidgee Red Gums IBA.The site has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it contains most of the habitat suitable for plains-wanderers in the Riverina.It also has good populations of other grassland birds, including brown songlarks, Australasian pipits, banded lapwings and singing bushlarks, as well as the arid biome restricted inland dotterel.