The Hunter Island Group Important Bird Area comprises several islands in the Hunter Island Group and Trefoil Island Group lying off the north-western coast of Tasmania, Australia.[1]
Collectively, they have an area of 152 km2. They have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because they support over 1% of the world populations of Cape Barren geese, short-tailed shearwaters, black-faced cormorants, sooty oystercatchers and Pacific gulls. The IBA also supports the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot on its migration route between Tasmania and mainland south-eastern Australia. Most of Tasmania's endemic bird species breed in the IBA.[2]
Hunter Island Group edit
- Albatross Island, part of the Albatross Island and Black Pyramid Rock Important Bird Area
- Bears Island
- Bird Island
- Black Pyramid Rock, part of the Albatross Island and Black Pyramid Rock Important Bird Area
- Dugay Islet
- Edwards Islet
- Hunter Island
- Nares Rocks
- Penguin Islet
- South Black Rock
- Steep Island
- Stack Island
- Three Hummock Island
Trefoil Island Group edit
References edit
- ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Hunter Island Group. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 18 November 2012. on 2011-07-09.
- ^ "IBA: Hunter Island Group". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
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