It also supports over 1% of the world populations of Pied and Sooty Oystercatchers, and Hooded Plovers, as well as populations of most of Tasmania’s endemic bird species.
The bay is part of the South Arm Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for the conservation of Pied Oystercatchers and of the migratory waders, or shorebirds, of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway.
The wetland system has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports well over 1% of the global population of Pied Oystercatchers.
The site has been identified as an IBA by BirdLife International because it supports over 1% of the world populations of Chestnut Teals and Pied Oystercatchers.
Pied Oystercatcher | Pied Piper of Hamelin | European Pied Flycatcher | American Oystercatcher | Sooty Oystercatcher | Pied Avocet | Pied | Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port | Pied Crow | Pied Piper of Lovers | Pied Monarch | Canary Islands Oystercatcher | Black Oystercatcher | black oystercatcher |
Containing the most extensive intertidal mudflats in Victoria, it supports over 1% of the world populations of Chestnut Teal, Far Eastern Curlew, Red-necked Stint, Pied and Sooty Oystercatchers and the Hooded Plover.
Other birds found in the region include the Australian Pelican, Silver Gull, Royal Spoonbill, Caspian and Crested Terns, White-fronted Chat, Sacred Ibis, Red-necked Stint, Little Pied Cormorant and Pied Oystercatcher.