Melaleuca to Birchs Inlet Important Bird Area

A pair of hooded plovers standing in shallow water
The IBA is an important area for hooded plovers.

The Melaleuca to Birchs Inlet Important Bird Area comprises a 2315 km2 section of coast and sub-coastal land in South West Tasmania. It stretches southward from the southern end of Birchs Inlet (where it adjoins the North-west Tasmanian Coast Important Bird Area), encompasses Melaleuca and Port Davey, and extends to Louisa Bay on the coast facing the Maatsuyker Island group. The area is rugged, with extensive beaches and coastal plains rising to rocky mountains. It contains a mosaic of temperate rainforest, eucalypt forest, moorland and buttongrass plains.[1]

  1. ^ BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Melaleuca to Birchs Inlet. Downloaded from "BirdLife International - conserving the world's birds". Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 29 March 2014. on 14/08/2011.