Editing Great Sandy National Park (section)

== Environment ==

=== Birds ===
The land within the park is classified by [[BirdLife International]] as the Cooloola and Fraser Coast [[Important Bird Area]] because it supports a large population of [[black-breasted buttonquail]]s as well as many [[bush stone-curlew|bush]] and [[beach stone-curlew]]s, [[green catbird]]s, [[regent bowerbird]]s, [[mangrove honeyeater]]s, and [[pale-yellow robin]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |title=IBA: Cooloola and Fraser Coast |access-date=16 June 2011 |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  }}</ref> [[Shire of Cooloola|Cooloola]] is also home to the [[eastern ground parrot]] and has one of the last coastal populations of the [[emu]].<ref name="acra">{{cite web |url=http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/cooloola/about.html |title=About Cooloola Recreation Area |date=21 August 2014 |publisher=Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing |access-date=8 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908084956/http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/cooloola/about.html |archive-date=8 September 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
[[File:Rainforest in the Great Sandy National Park, Cooloola.jpg | thumb|220x124px | right | alt= Palm tree's and Strangler figs dominate this Rainforest of the Great Sandy National Park, Cooloola. |Looking up at a rainforest in the Great Sandy National Park, Cooloola, facing east]]