Earth:Oyster Rocks
The Oyster Rocks are a close pair of small granite islands, with a combined area of about 6 ha, in south-eastern Australia . They are part of Tasmania’s Tin Kettle Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait between Flinders and Cape Barren Islands in the Furneaux Group. They are a conservation area.[1] The islands 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, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, Caspian tern and Cape Barren goose. Black-faced cormorants nest on the smaller western islet. The metallic skink is present.[1]
See also
- List of islands of Tasmania
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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
- ↑ "BirdLife Data Zone Franklin Sound Islands". BirdLife International. http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/23988. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
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