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Desert mice of granite downs
Granite Downs was a 9,000 square kilometres (3,475 sq mi) cattle station in arid northern South Australia.
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It is now part of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands.
Birds
A 552 square kilometres (213 sq mi) part of Granite Downs has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports a population of the near threatened chestnut-breasted whiteface at its north-western distribution limit. It also supports populations of the inland dotterel, Bourke's parrot, banded whiteface, black honeyeater, pied honeyeater, cinnamon quail-thrush, chiming wedgebill and thick-billed grasswren.
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Granite Downs Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA