Freycinet Island

Freycinet Island
Location of Freycinet Island
Pied cormorant in flight over the sea
The island holds an important nesting colony of pied cormorants

Freycinet Island is a small island (3ha, 8acres) in Henri Freycinet Harbour, lying off the Carrarang peninsula in the southern part of Shark Bay, on the-west coast of Western Australia. It is an elevated limestone plateau with scree slopes, vegetated with nitre bush shrubland.

Birds

Freycinet Island is one component of the Quoin Bluff and Freycinet Island Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because it holds an important nesting colony of pied cormorants. Together with a similar colony on Quoin Bluff some 80 km to the north-west, it supports between 5000 and 10,000 birds - over 1% of the world population of the species. Small numbers of wedge-tailed shearwaters and silver gulls also nest on the island, and rock parrots have been recorded there.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Quoin Bluff and Freycinet Island (Shark Bay). Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 25/09/2011.

Coordinates: 26°24′23″S 113°37′07″E / 26.40639°S 113.61861°E / -26.40639; 113.61861


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