Gluepot Reserve

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Gluepot Reserve is a conservation reserve established by Birds Australia in 1997 by the purchase, through a public appeal, of the 500 square kilometre Gluepot Station, a pastoral lease in the semi-arid mallee region of South Australia. The decision to purchase Gluepot Station, Birds Australia's first reserve, was taken in order to protect its outstanding floral and faunal values, under threat because of an application by the lessee to burn the property to provide grazing for sheep. Gluepot is part of the Bookmark Biosphere Reserve.

Nearly 200 species of birds have been recorded at Gluepot. These include the nationally threatened Malleefowl, Regent Parrot, Red-lored Whistler and Black-eared Miner. A further 33 species are considered to be regionally threatened. Scarlet-chested Parrots are known to have bred on Gluepot in the past, and still visit the reserve.