The Port Davey Islands Important Bird Area comprises over 20 small, rocky islands scattered both within, and in the vicinity of, the mouth of

Port Davey Port Davey is an oceanic inlet located in the south west region of Tasmania, Australia. Port Davey was named in honour of Thomas Davey, a former Governor of Tasmania. Port Davey is contained within the Port Davey/Bathurst Harbour Marine Natu ...

, an inlet on the south-west coast of

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, Australia. They all lie within the

Southwest National Park Southwest National Park is an Australian national park located in the south-west of Tasmania, bounded by the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park to the north and the Hartz Mountains National Park to the east. It is a part of a chain of ...

and are important for breeding

seabird Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same enviro ...

Birds

The sparsely vegetated islands, with a collective area of 163 ha, have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because together they support over 1% of the world populations of short-tailed shearwaters (c. 950,000 breeding pairs),

fairy prion The fairy prion (''Pachyptila turtur'') is a small seabird with the standard prion plumage of blue-grey upperparts with a prominent dark "M" marking and white underneath. The sexes are alike. This is a small prion of the low subantarctic and sub ...

s (c. 27,000 breeding pairs), little penguins (c. 16,500 breeding pairs) and black-faced cormorants (up to 230 breeding pairs).

Pacific gull The Pacific gull (''Larus pacificus'') is a very large gull, native to the coasts of Australia. It is moderately common between Carnarvon in the west, and Sydney in the east, although it has become scarce in some parts of the south-east, as a re ...

s and

sooty oystercatcher The sooty oystercatcher (''Haematopus fuliginosus'') is a species of oystercatcher. It is a wading bird endemic to Australia and commonly found on its coastline. It prefers rocky coastlines, but will occasionally live in estuaries. All of its fea ...

s also nest in the islands.BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Port Davey Islands. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 20/09/2011.

Islands

;Breaksea Island group * Breaksea Islands * Kathleen Island * Mavourneen Rocks ;Swainson Island group * Big Caroline Rock * Swainson Island * Hay Island * Shanks Islands * Lourah Island ;Mutton Bird Island group * South East Mutton Bird Islet * South West Mutton Bird Islet * Mutton Bird Island * Sugarmouse Island * East Pyramids * Sugarloaf Rock * Wendar Island * Wild Wind Islets ;Trumpeter Islets group * The Coffee Pot * West Pyramid * Trumpeter Islets * Hobbs Island

References

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