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Robbins Passage and Boullanger Bay Important Bird Area

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breed within the site. The IBA also supports some 242,000 breeding pairs of short-tailed shearwaters.
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The saltmarsh and fringing farmland provide habitat for
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in Tasmania, with over 25,000 birds using it in summer.
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Robbins Passage and Boullanger Bay Important Bird Area
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with adjacent farmland. It is an important site for
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Robbins Passage
A double-banded plover in breeding plumage standing in shallow water
western end of the north coast
Tasmania
Australia
mudflats
saltmarsh
waders
Robbins Island
North-west Tasmanian Coast Important Bird Area
Big Stony
Little Stony
Big Sandy
South West Petrel Islands
short-tailed shearwaters
muttonbirding
BirdLife International
Important Bird Area
red-necked stints
double-banded plovers
pied
sooty oystercatchers
hooded plovers
waders
critically endangered
orange-bellied parrots
migration
flame robins
endemic
ruddy turnstones

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