The birds of Faure Island, Shark Bay, Western Australia

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Updated 7 years ago

ABSTRACT – Ninety-seven species of birds are known from Faure Island based on surveys conducted in May 2000, July 2005 and October 2005 together with other recent occasional opportunistic records and data from a previously unpublished visit in November 1989. This list comprises 69 species of non-passerines and 28 species of passerines. Forty-four species depend almost entirely on the ocean including beaches, mangroves and associated mudflats and tidal samphires for food resources. The landbird fauna is relatively depauperate. Faure Island has significant areas of mud flats for traniequatorial migrant wading birds that are protected by agreements between the government ot Australia and the governments of Japan, China and South Korea. Breeding data for 23 species are presented.