page_title: Flinders Island
section_title: Central Flinders Island Important Bird Area
hierarchical_section_title: Flinders Island / Geography and nature / Central Flinders Island Important Bird Area
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of the Forty-spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus), a rare Australian endemic bird. Taken March 31, 2006 on Maria Island, off the coast of Tasmania.
context_page_description: Flinders Island, the largest island in the Furneaux Group, is a 1,367-square-kilometre island in the Bass Strait, northeast of the island of Tasmania. Flinders Island is part of the state of Tasmania, Australia. It is 54 kilometres from Cape Portland and is located on 40° south, a zone known as the Roaring Forties.
context_section_description: A 30 km² tract of land on the island, lying mainly to the north and east of Whitemark, has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it contains three breeding colonies of the endangered forty-spotted pardalote and habitat used by flame robins.  It also supports populations of several of Tasmania's restricted-range endemic bird species, including the green rosella, yellow-throated honeyeater, black-headed honeyeater, strong-billed honeyeater, Tasmanian thornbill, black currawong and dusky robin.
caption: Flinders Island is an important site for the forty-spotted pardalote
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