Australasian Bird Reviews: No. 6 – THE STATUS OF QUEENSLAND SEABIRDS
| Posted: |
11/08/2021 |
| Author(s): |
B. R. King |
A survey was made of seabird populations and breeding islands from Cape York south to off
Mackay between 1979 and 1990. These data are supplemented with that of others from the Gulf of
Carpentaria, the Torres Strait, and other islands of the Great Barrier Reef and south of Mackay to the
Queensland/ New South Wales border. Twenty-four species of seabirds breed principally on some 75
islands of the more than 1 000 in this vast area. These islands may be largely sand, mangrove, low
wooded, continental or cays, vegetated or unvegetated. The influence of the vegetation of an island
on the breeding of seabirds is discussed as are other factors influencing breeding success. Queensland,
and in particular the Great Barrier Reef, has the largest and most diverse population of tropical
seabirds in Australia, some of which is still relatively undisturbed. There is an international obligation
to preserve and maintain this faunal resource.
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