St Helens Important Bird Area
Coordinates: 41 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 148 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E
The St Helens Important Bird Area is a sanctuary that consists of four separate areas with a total area of 24 km². The area is near St Helens on the northeast coast of Tasmania , Australia .
description
The areas of the Important Bird Area (IBA) are Paddys Island and St Helens Islands , the 9 km long Maurouard Beach on the adjacent coast with the Peron Dunes behind it, and Georges Bay . The islands are made of granite and have rocky coasts. The coast of Maurourad Beach is sandy and facing the sea. Georges Bay has tidal flats that serve as feeding grounds for the birds.
Birds
The area is designated by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA), as it contains more than 1% of the occurrence of black-billed gulls (Paddys Island), little penguins (up to 15,000 breeding pairs on St Helens Island), Australian oystercatchers (Georges Bay ) and numerous other birds (on Maurouard Beach and in the Peron Dunes). Other seabirds that breed on the islands include 10,000 breeding pairs of frigate petrels , 10 breeding pairs of guillemoton on St Helens Island, and predatory terns and Dominican gulls on Paddys Island.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b BirdLife International. (2009). Important Bird Areas factsheet: St Helens (Tasmania). on birdlife.org, accessed October 30, 2015.
- ↑ IBA: St Helens (Tasmania) . In: Birdata . Birds Australia. Retrieved October 24, 2011.