Mulga Lands

The Mulga Lands extend across inland Queensland and northwestern New South Wales in Australia. The New South Wales section is hot, dry, and semiarid, with the Paroo and Warrego rivers among its named landscape features ([NSW government overview](https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/biodiversity/bioregions/bioregions-of-nsw/mulga-lands)).

Mulga can mean both the vegetation type and the dominant tree or shrub Acacia aneura, a type of Australian wattle. In the Mulga Lands, it forms open woodlands and shrublands on sandy or red-earth plains ([Queensland government guide](https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/habitats/habitat/mulga)).

It is better described as a dry bioregion with desert-like areas, shrublands, and open woodland than as one continuous sand desert. Rainfall is low and variable, so vegetation can shift from low shrubland to taller mulga woodland.

The habitat supports species such as the Major Mitchell's cockatoo, Hall's babbler, and kultarr. The exact species mix depends on local vegetation, water, and woodland structure ([Queensland habitat guide](https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/habitats/habitat/mulga)).