banded stilt การใช้
- It sometimes holds internationally significant numbers of red-necked stints and banded stilts.
- As well as banded stilt, the species has also been called locally Rottnest snipe,
- It is a major breeding area for the banded stilt ( " Cladorhynchus leucocephalus " ).
- Since the first banded stilt breeding colony was discovered in 1930 there have been approximately only 35 breeding colonies recorded.
- The endangered fairy tern and the vulnerable eastern curlew and banded stilt have been recorded in the Tumby Island / Cape Euler coastal cell.
- Despite its extreme salinity, Lake Beeac supports brine shrimp which in turn feed water birds such as the banded stilt and the red-necked avocet.
- A distinctive bird, the banded stilt is hard to confuse with any other species; the related pied stilt lacks the breast band, and the red-necked avocet has a chestnut head and neck.
- The lake has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it has supported over 1 % of the world populations of hooded plovers, musk ducks, and sometimes banded stilts.
- Species that have strongly declined since the 1980s are broad-billed sandpipers, Asian dowitchers, curlew sandpipers, red-necked avocets, banded stilts, Oriental plovers, Oriental pratincoles and white-winged black terns.
- The island has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it supports important breeding populations of the fairy terns ( 200-300 breeding pairs ), over 1 % of the non-breeding population of banded stilts ( with up to 20, 000 birds ) and regionally significant numbers of wedge-tailed shearwaters and red-necked stints.
- The estuary has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it supports a significant population of fairy terns, is a drought refuge for blue-billed ducks, and sometimes holds over 1 % of the world populations of red-necked stints, sharp-tailed sandpipers, banded stilts, red-necked avocets and red-capped plovers.
- Lake Torrens has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area known as the " Lake Torrens Important Bird Area " ( IBA ) because it supported up to 100, 000 breeding banded stilts during the major filling event of 1989 . It may occasionally support over 1 % of the world population of red-capped plovers . cinnamon quail-thrushes are also common in the IBA.