The Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area comprises a disjunct 521 km2 stretch of coastal and subcoastal land in tropical Far North Queensland, Australia. It extends from just south of Cairns in the north for about 150 km to Cardwell in the south. It is important for the conservation of lowland rainforest birds, especially southern cassowaries.
^ abBirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Coastal Wet Tropics. Downloaded from . Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 21 November 2012. on 2011-12-16.
^. Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
coastal, tropics, important, bird, area, comprises, disjunct, stretch, coastal, subcoastal, land, tropical, north, queensland, australia, extends, from, just, south, cairns, north, about, cardwell, south, important, conservation, lowland, rainforest, birds, es. The Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area comprises a disjunct 521 km2 stretch of coastal and subcoastal land in tropical Far North Queensland Australia It extends from just south of Cairns in the north for about 150 km to Cardwell in the south It is important for the conservation of lowland rainforest birds especially southern cassowaries The IBA is important for beach stone curlewsDescription editMost of the site is made up of low hills and ranges with some areas of floodplain forest The native vegetation is mainly tropical rainforest with smaller areas of open eucalypt and paperbark forests and mangroves It includes areas used by the Defence Department Aboriginal freehold land national parks and other reserves as well as unallocated state land It encompasses the Mission Beach area which is considered to hold the best cassowary habitat in the Wet Tropics Other habitats include remote beaches and freshwater wetlands The site contains or overlaps with Clump Mountain Ella Bay Eubenangee Swamp Girramay Grey Peaks Hull River Kurrimine Beach Maria Creek Moresby Range Mount Mackay Russell River and Tam O Shanter National Parks The climate is monsoonal with distinct wet and dry seasons 1 Birds editThe site has been identified as an Important Bird Area IBA by BirdLife International because it contains significant numbers of southern cassowaries It also supports the rare rufous owl subspecies Ninox rufa queenslandica as well as populations of beach and bush stone curlews yellow and yellow spotted honeyeaters fernwrens Bower s shrike thrushes and pale yellow robins 1 2 References edit a b BirdLife International 2011 Important Bird Areas factsheet Coastal Wet Tropics Downloaded from BirdLife International conserving the world s birds Archived from the original on 10 July 2007 Retrieved 21 November 2012 on 2011 12 16 IBA Coastal Wet Tropics Birdata Birds Australia Archived from the original on 6 July 2011 Retrieved 15 December 2011 17 30 55 S 145 59 59 E 17 51528 S 145 99972 E 17 51528 145 99972 nbsp This Far North Queensland geography article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area amp oldid 1114206411, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
