The Gippsland Lakes KBA Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that are recognised as Some Birds important for bird conservation in accordance with a set of that may be seen on the internationally agreed criteria. The Gippsland Lakes KBA is one of 314 KBAs in Australia. The Gippsland Lakes are also a Ramsar site, designated in 1982 under the terms of the International Ramsar Gippsland Lakes
Convention for the conservation of wetlands of national and international significance.
The BirdLife East Gippsland ‘Gippsland Lakes Important Bird and Biodiversity Area Monitoring Project’ (GLIBA Project) commenced On the web at in late 2011. The goal of the GLIBA project is to detect change www.birdlife.org.au/locations/ over time in (a) the abundance of individual bird species, or (b) birdlife-east-gippsland composition of the avifauna community (that is, the mix of species). Surveys are conducted on a regular basis at 23 sites across the lakes system. The project monitors ‘wetland dependent’ species, of which approximately 100 have been recorded in the lakes. Postal Address Box 825 Bairnsdale, The lakes support a significant proportion of the total Victoria, 3875 global/national populations of some species (e.g. Black Swan). Email Also the lakes are habitat for several rare and threatened species [email protected] (e.g. Australian Bittern), migratory shorebirds (many breeding in northern hemisphere), and serve as a refuge for Pelican with young. John Hutchison nomadic species in times of drought in SE Australia.
A Report on the First Five Years 2011 - 2015 is available at: See also http://www.birdlife.org.au/locations/birdlife -east- East Gippsland Birding Guide gippsland/publications-eg Bairnsdale
h p://www.birdlife.org.au/loca ons/birdlife-east- Other Brochures available:
Birding Guides are available for Bairnsdale, Bruthen & Nowa gippsland/publica ons-eg Nowa, Buchan, Lake Tyers, Lakes Entrance, Lindenow & Mitchell River Na onal Park, Mallacoota, Marlo, Metung, Nicholson,
Omeo and Paynesville.
Bird Check Lists are available for Buchan Caves, Cann River, Den of Nargun, Fairy Dell, Gippsland Lakes, Lake Tyers & Fishermans Updated Jan 2019 Landing, Macleod Morass, Nyerimilang, Omeo, Oneonta, and Raymond Island. Marlo and Mallacoota have 2 brochures each, (1. Waterbirds and 2. Bush birds).
Species Species Species Species
Ducks Cormorants etc. Waders etc. Terns & gulls Musk Duck Australasian Darter Purple Swamphen Little Tern Freckled Duck Australian Pelican Dusky Moorhen Fairy Tern Australian Shelduck Little Pied Cormorant Eurasian Coot Caspian Tern Australian Wood Duck Pied Cormorant Aust Pied Oystercatcher Whiskered Tern Pink-eared Duck Little Black Cormorant Black-winged Stilt Crested Tern Australasian Shoveler Great Cormorant Banded Stilt Pacific Gull Grey Teal Black-faced Cormorant Red-necked Avocet Silver Gull Chestnut Teal Red-capped Plover Pacific Black Duck Herons & Egrets Hooded Plover Raptors Hardhead Cattle Egret Black-fronted Dotterel White-bellied Sea-Eagle Blue-billed Duck Little Egret Red-kneed Dotterel Swamp Harrier Intermediate Egret Masked Lapwing Whistling Kite Swan Eastern Great Egret Latham's Snipe # Black Swan White-necked Heron Bar-tailed Godwit # Others White-faced Heron Eastern Curlew # Azure Kingfisher Grebes Common Greenshank # Golden-headed Cisticola Australasian Grebe Ibis & spoonbills Marsh Sandpiper # Australian Reed-Warbler Hoary-headed Grebe Australian White Ibis Wood Sandpiper # Little Grassbird Great Crested Grebe Straw-necked Ibis Sanderling # Royal Spoonbill Red-necked Stint # Yellow-billed Spoonbill Sharp-tailed Sandpiper # Extra species? # = Migrants (Breed outside Australia)