Bird Island, Falkland Islands

For other places with the same name, see Bird Island. Bird Island may refer to Great Bird Island Antigua Bird Island Falkland Islands Bird Island Lake Zway, located

Bird Island (Spanish: Isla Pájaro) is one of the Falkland Islands. It lies due south of West Falkland, near Port Stephens^[1] and Calm Head

According to Ian Strange:

"Such offshore islands [as Bird Island] are the remaining strongholds of a large percentage of bird life"^[1]

Amongst the birds which breed here are rockhopper penguins, King Shags, petrels and Black-browed Albatrosses. West Falkland is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, with an area of approximately 4532 km² (5413 km² including the adjacent Port Stephens is a settlement on West Falkland, in the Falkland Islands. Calm Head is the most south westerly point of the Falkland Islands, and is on West Falkland. The Southern Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome, is a Species of Penguin. The King Shag ( Phalacrocorax carunculatus) also known as New Zealand King Shag or Rough-faced Shag, is a rare bird endemic to New Zealand This article is about the petrel seabirds For other uses see Petrel (disambiguation. The Black-browed Albatross, Thalassarche melanophrys, is a large Seabird of the Albatross family Diomedeidae. ^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Strange, Ian (1983) The Falkland Islands

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