| 词条 | Bird Island (Tasmania) |
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{{Use Australian English|date=June 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}{{Other places3|Bird Island (disambiguation)}}Bird Island is an island game reserve, with an area of 43.92 ha, in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Hunter Island Group which lies between north-west Tasmania and King Island. It is home to about 5,000 pairs of short-tailed shearwaters, the young of which are harvested annually, and about 3,000 pairs of little penguins.[1]FaunaThe island forms part of the Hunter Island Group Important Bird Area.[1] As well as the shearwaters and penguins, other breeding seabirds and shorebirds include white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull and sooty oystercatcher. Reptiles include the metallic skink and abundant tiger snakes.[2] References1. ^BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Hunter Island Group. Downloaded from {{cite web |url=http://www.birdlife.org |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-09-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5QE8rvIqH?url=http://www.birdlife.org/ |archivedate=10 July 2007 |df=dmy }} on 2011-07-09. {{coord|40|36|S|144|43|E|display=title}}{{Tasmania-geo-stub}}2. ^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}} 3 : North West Tasmania|Important Bird Areas of Tasmania|Islands of Bass Strait |
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