Spences Reefs

Spences Reefs appear to the top left of Little Green Island

Spences Reefs is a pair of reefs consisting of two islets, with a combined area of 0.65 ha, in south-eastern Australia. They are close to the south-east corner of Little Green Island and part of Tasmania’s Great Dog Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group.[1] The islets are part of the Franklin Sound Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world populations of six bird species.[2]

Fauna

Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, white-faced storm-petrel, sooty oystercatcher, pied oystercatcher and Caspian tern. Rats are present, with evidence that they prey on the storm-petrels.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 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
  2. ↑ "IBA: Franklin Sound Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Retrieved 2011-06-22.

Coordinates: 40°13′S 148°14′E / 40.217°S 148.233°E / -40.217; 148.233

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