Morehead River Important Bird Area

The Morehead River Important Bird Area comprises a 1356 km2 tract of tropical savanna woodland in the south-eastern Cape York Peninsula of Far North Queensland, Australia.

It consista of low hills drained by ephemeral creeks and covered with open savanna woodland containing Melaleucas.

[1] The site has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports a large proportion of the population of the endangered golden-shouldered parrot, and possibly of the buff-breasted button-quail.

It also contains significant populations of black-throated and masked finches, bush stone-curlews, silver-crowned friarbirds, and yellow-tinted, yellow, banded, white-gaped and bar-breasted honeyeaters.

[2] During the wet season azure kingfishers occur along the streams with rainforest birds such as fairy gerygones and pied imperial-pigeons.