Editing Brook Islands National Park (section)

==Fauna==
Up to 60,000 pied imperial-pigeons breed on the islands during summer, providing a spectacle to onlookers as they return to their nests each evening after foraging for rainforest fruits in the mainland and Hinchinbrook Island. Following regular illegal shooting of the birds there during the early and mid 20th Century, the population using the islands was subject to a long protection campaign and monitoring program by conservation activists [[Margaret Thorsborne|Margaret and Arthur Thorsborne]]. There are also breeding colonies of [[bridled tern|bridled]], [[black-naped tern|black-naped]], [[little tern|little]], [[lesser crested tern|lesser crested]] and [[roseate tern]]s. [[Beach stone-curlew]]s breed on North Island beaches.<ref name=BrookMP/> The islands have been classified by [[BirdLife International]] as an [[Important Bird Area]] because of the global importance of the site for pied imperial-pigeons and lesser crested terns.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |title=IBA: Brook Islands |access-date=2011-06-06 |work=Birdata |publisher=Birds Australia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706102341/http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |archive-date=6 July 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref>