Bird Island Nature Reserve
Facts and practical information
The Bird Island Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve located near Lake Munmorah on the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The island is situated 1.4 kilometres off the east coast of New South Wales, within the Tasman Sea. The reserve may be seen from the lighthouse at Norah Head. ()
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Wildlife
AnimalsSee what popular animal species you can meet in this location.
Eastern Curlew
The Far Eastern curlew is a large shorebird most similar in appearance to the long-billed curlew, but slightly larger. It is mostly brown in color, differentiated from other curlews by its...
Birds
Humpback whale
The humpback whale is a species of baleen whale. It is one of the larger rorqual species, with adults ranging in length from 12-16 m and weighing around 25-30 metric tons.
Mammals
Peregrine falcon
The peregrine falcon, also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey in the family Falconidae. A large, crow-sized falcon, it...
Birds
Common tern
The common tern is a seabird in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, its four subspecies breeding in temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North...
Birds
Sooty shearwater
The sooty shearwater is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. Ardenna was first used to refer to a seabird by Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603, and...
Birds
New South Wales