Little Waterhouse Island
The island is an important breeding site for black-faced cormorants
Little Waterhouse Island is a small island, with an area of 2.5 ha, is part of the Waterhouse Island Group, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.
Most of the island is bare rock.[1] The island forms part of the Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world population of black-faced cormorants.[2]
Fauna
As well as black-faced cormorants, recorded breeding seabird and wader species are the little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern.[1]
Other islands in the Waterhouse Group with breeding seabirds include:[1]
- Ninth Island
- Tenth Island
- Waterhouse Island
- Maclean Island
- Baynes Island
- Cygnet Island
- Foster Islands
- Swan Island
- Little Swan Island
- Bird Rock
- George Rocks
- St Helens Island
- Paddys Island
References
- 1 2 3 Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. ISBN 0-7246-4816-X
- ↑ "IBA: Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
Coordinates: 40°49′S 147°37′E / 40.817°S 147.617°E
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