Tourville and Murat Bays Important Bird Area

Tourville and Murat Bays Important Bird Area is an important bird area in South Australia with a combined area of 117 square kilometres (45 square miles), located west to the town of Ceduna on the north-west corner of the Eyre Peninsula in the Great Australian Bight.

Tourville Bay has a relatively narrow neck and contains extensive intertidal flats and saltmarsh.

[1] The bays have been identified as an IBA by BirdLife International because, together, they support over 1% of the world populations of both pied and sooty oystercatchers.

[2] Other birds for which the site is important include common greenshanks, red knots, sharp-tailed sandpipers, banded lapwings, red-capped plovers and fairy terns.

There are also records of hooded plovers, pied and great cormorants, and white-faced herons.