Piper Islands National Park
| Piper Islands National Park | |
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IUCN category II (national park) | |
| Coordinates | 12°13′10″S 143°15′49″E / 12.21944°S 143.26361°ECoordinates: 12°13′10″S 143°15′49″E / 12.21944°S 143.26361°E |
| Established | 1989 |
| Area | 70,000 m2 (17 acres) |
| Managing authorities | Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service |
The islands are an important breeding site for pied imperial pigeons
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
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
- 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
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 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. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
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