Editing Lake Eyre (section)

===2009 to 2011===
[[File:STS035-502-4.jpg|thumb|right|Lake Eyre in 1990, as seen from the [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']]]]
The 2009 Lake Eyre flood peaked at {{convert|1.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} deep in late May, which is a quarter of its maximum recorded depth of {{convert|6|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}. {{convert|9|km3|cumi|0|abbr=on}} of water crossed the Queensland–South Australian border with most of it coming from massive floods in the [[Georgina River]]. However, owing to the very low rainfall in the lower reaches of these rivers (contrasting with heavy rainfall in the upper catchments),<ref>{{cite report|url=http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/annual_sum/2009/AnClimSum09_HR1.1.pdf|title=Annual Climate Summary 2009|publisher=[[Bureau of Meteorology]]|access-date=28 March 2023}}</ref> the greater proportion soaked into the desert or evaporated en route to the lake, leaving less than {{convert|4|km3|cumi|abbr=on}} in the lake, which covered an area of {{convert|800|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=on}}, or 12% of the total. As the flood did not start filling the lake's deepest point (Belt Bay) until late March, little bird life appeared, preferring instead to nest in the upper reaches of the Lake Eyre Basin, north of [[Birdsville]], where large lakes appeared in January as a result of monsoonal rain.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

The high rainfall in summer 2010 sent flood water into the [[Diamantina River|Diamantina]], [[Georgina River|Georgina]] and [[Cooper Creek]] catchments of the Lake Eyre basin, with the Cooper Creek reaching the lake for the first time since 1990. The higher rainfall prompted many different birds to migrate back to the area for breeding.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lake Eyre floods again|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515222926/http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/lake-eyre-floods-again.htm/|url=http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/lake-eyre-floods-again.htm/|archive-date=15 May 2013|date=15 July 2010|last=Baker|first=Rebecca|website=[[Australian Geographic]]}}</ref>

Heavy local rain in early March 2011 in the Stuart Creek and Warriner catchments filled Lake Eyre South, with Lake Eyre North about 75 per cent covered with water firstly from the [[Neales River|Neales]] and [[Macumba River|Macumba]] Rivers, and later from the [[Warburton River]].<ref>{{cite news|date=8 March 2011|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-03-09/flooding-and-storms-fill-outback-lake/2663296|title=Flooding and storms fill outback lake|agency=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]|access-date=28 March 2023}}</ref>