Cootamundra Herald

Murray-Lower Darling

This area is a nature lover’s paradise with floodplains, swamps and wetlands playing host to fish and wildlife. The small towns of Menindee, Pooncarie,...

By Explore
Updated September 20, 2022, first published February 22, 2021

This area is a nature lover’s paradise with floodplains, swamps and wetlands playing host to fish and wildlife.

The small towns of Menindee, Pooncarie, Wentworth and Euston are included in the area.

Cruise the Menindee Lakes that provide waterbird habitat with more than 30 species of waterbirds, including threatened species such as freckled duck and migratory waders.

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The Menindee Lakes were a series of shallow natural ephemeral lakes along the Darling River which have been developed into a water storage.