Dampier Saltworks Important Bird Area

Short description: Important Bird Area in Western Australia

The saltworks is an important site for the red-capped plover

The Dampier Saltworks Important Bird Area is a 52 km2 saltern lying close to the town of Dampier, an industrial port in the Pilbara region of north-west Western Australia. The salt processing facility is operated by Dampier Salt Ltd, part of the Rio Tinto Group.

## Contents

* 1 Birds
* 2 See also
* 3 External links
* 4 References

## Birds

The solar evaporation ponds at Dampier have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA). They regularly support over 1% of the world populations of the red-capped plover and red-necked stint and similarly support the Oriental plover and sharp-tailed sandpiper occasionally. The saltworks is also home to small numbers of the range-restricted dusky gerygone.[1]

## See also

* Port Hedland Saltworks Important Bird Area

## External links

* Dampier Salt

Panorama of saltworks at Dampier, November 2006

## References

1. ↑ "IBA: Dampier Saltworks". Birdata. Birds Australia. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110706102341/http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm. Retrieved 2011-06-16.

[ ⚑ ]  20°43′08″S 116°43′38″E﻿ / ﻿20.71889°S 116.72722°E﻿ / -20.71889; 116.72722

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