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.
Females focussed on soft-bodied prey which they could swallow whole such as fish, crabs, bluebottle jellyfish and various worm-like creatures such as cunjevoi, while males preferred hard-shelled prey such as mussels (Mytilus planulatus), sea urchins, turban shells (Turbo undulatus and Turbo torquata), and black periwinkle (Nerita atramentosa).
Pied Oystercatcher | Sooty Tern | Sooty Shearwater | Sooty Falcon | American Oystercatcher | Sooty Oystercatcher | Sooty Gull | Sooty | The Sooty Show | sooty tern | Canary Islands Oystercatcher | Black Oystercatcher | black oystercatcher |
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.