Piper Islands National Park
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The Piper Islands National Park is a national park in Far North Queensland, Australia. It lies 1977 km northwest of Brisbane. It comprises four small islands lying on the inner northern Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Temple Bay, between Cape Grenville and Fair Cape.[1]
Birds
[edit | edit source]The islands have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because they have supported over 1% of the world populations of pied imperial pigeons (with up to 4000 nests) and black noddies (up to 7500 nests).[2]
Islands
[edit | edit source]- Baird Island (1 ha) – coral and shingle cay with mangroves (dominated by Rhizophora stylosa and Avicennia marina) growing to a canopy height of 5 m[1]
- Beesley Island (2.4 ha) – cay with grasses and herbs, sharing the same reef as Baird Island[1]
- Farmer Island (7 ha) – cay with a grass and shrub exterior and a wooded interior dominated by Pisonia grandis forest up to 4 m in height[1]
- Fisher Island (3 ha) – coral shingle cay with shrubs and mangroves, sharing the same reef as Fisher Island[1]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Piper Islands. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 19/09/2011.
- ↑ "IBA: Piper Islands". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Piper Islands National Park - State of Queensland Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing
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