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Riverina landholders sign up to plains-wanderer land conservation
The small light-brown plains-wanderer might look unremarkable, but it is so unique it is placed in an entire family of its own, Pedionomidae.
It has earned the nickname, the 'Goldilocks bird' because conditions need to be just right for it to survive. Those conditions are of course a very specific type of grazing habitat found in remote areas of south-western NSW and across land also prized for its agricultural use.