Two Peoples Bay and Mount Manypeaks Important Bird Area

The Two Peoples Bay and Mount Manypeaks Important Bird Area is a 261 km2 tract of coastal and subcoastal land east of the city of Albany in south-west Western Australia.

The Important Bird Area (IBA) contains a 50 km length of coastal heathland habitat.

It encompasses the Two Peoples Bay, Mount Manypeaks, Arpenteur and Bald Island Nature Reserves, together with Waychinicup National Park and adjacent unprotected land with suitable habitat.

It has a temperate climate supporting dense shrubland and heathland subject to occasional wildfires.

It also supports over 1% of the world populations of flesh-footed shearwaters and, probably, of great-winged petrels, as well as significant numbers of Carnaby's black cockatoos, Australasian bitterns, western rosellas, red-capped and rock parrots, red-winged fairywrens, western spinebills, western thornbills, white-breasted robins and red-eared firetails.

Illustration of male Noisy Scrub-bird by Neville William Cayley
The IBA is an important area for noisy scrub-birds...
Flesh-footed Shearwater in flight, seen from above
...for flesh-footed shearwaters...
Gould lithograph of a pair of Gilbert's Potoroos
...and for Gilbert's potoroos