Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area

The islands of the IBA are home to up to 41,000 pairs of Little Penguins

The Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area lies in eastern Bass Strait west of Flinders in the Furneaux Group of Tasmania, Australia. Its component islands collectively form a 21 km² Important Bird Area (IBA) which supports more than 1% of the global populations of the Cape Barren Goose, Black-faced Cormorant, Little Penguin, White-faced Storm-Petrel, Short-tailed Shearwater, Pacific Gull, and Sooty Oystercatcher. It also supports significant numbers of Fairy Terns.^[1]^[2]

The islands include:

References

^ "IBA: Central NSW Mallee". Birdata. Birds Australia. http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm. Retrieved 2011-06-14.
^ 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

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