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The Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands Important Bird Area comprises a cluster of disparate sites centred at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula, and the southern end of Port Phillip, in Victoria, south-eastern Australia. As well as providing core wintering habitat for orange-bellied parrots, it is important for waders, or shorebirds, and seabirds. ==Description== Sites included in the Important Bird Area (IBA) are:〔BirdLife International. (2011). Important Bird Areas factsheet: Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2011-10-27.〕 ;Swan Bay area wetlands and barrier islands * Portarlington sewage treatment works * Swan Bay - 30 km2 marine embayment with intertidal flats fringed by saltmarsh * Edwards Point - 4 km sandspit with coastal woodland, heathland and saltmarsh * Duck Island - small sand and saltmarsh island * Swan Island - 140 ha sand island, with coastal scrub and saltmarsh * Rabbit Island - small saltmarsh island * Freshwater Lake - small ephemeral lake, fringed by herbland * Lake Victoria - 139 ha shallow saline lake with extensive mudflats bordered by saltmarsh and sedgeland ; Port Phillip islands and structures * Mud Islands - tight group of three low, sandy islands, with a total area of 50 ha, with shrubland, saltmarsh and mudflats * Pope's Eye - small artificial island with timber platform and navigation beacon * South Channel Island - small artificial island * Wedge Light - timber platform with adjacent navigation beacon Swan Bay and Mud Islands are within the Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site.〔 Swan Bay, Mud Islands and Pope’s Eye are in the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands Important Bird Area」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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