Egg Island, Horseshoe Reef

Egg Island is a small island, with an area of 0.83 ha, in south-eastern Australia.

It is part of the North Coast Group, lying in Bass Strait on Horseshoe Reef near Devonport in north-west Tasmania.

It has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because of its globally significant colony of black-faced cormorants.

Recorded breeding seabird species include little penguin, black-faced cormorant (over 500 pairs), silver gull, crested tern and Caspian tern.

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