Editing Swain Reefs National Park

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'''Swain Reefs''' is a [[national park]] in [[North Queensland]], [[Australia]], {{convert|703|km|mile|abbr=on}} north of [[Brisbane]]. It was established in 1995, and covers an area of 0.58&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>. It is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

==Fauna==
[[File:Roseate Tern LEI06.JPG|thumb|right|alt=A pair of roseate terns facing each other and calling|The IBA is an important area for roseate terns]]

===Birds===
Nine small [[cay]]s, with a combined area of {{cvt|9|ha}}, comprise the Swain Reefs [[Important Bird Area]] (IBA), identified as such  by [[BirdLife International]] because together they support over 1% of the world population of breeding [[roseate tern]]s, and even larger numbers of non-breeding roseate terns, with up to 25,000 individuals recorded there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.birdata.com.au/iba.vm |title=IBA: Swain Reefs |access-date=2011-10-26 |work= Birdata |publisher=Birds Australia }}</ref> Other birds recorded on the cays include [[masked booby|masked]] and [[brown booby|brown boobies]], [[silver gull]]s, [[black-naped tern|black-naped]], [[sooty tern|sooty]], [[bridled tern|bridled]], [[greater crested tern|greater crested]], [[lesser crested tern|lesser crested]] and [[little tern]]s, [[black noddy|black]] and [[common noddy|common noddies]], and [[lesser frigatebird]]s. Cays supporting seabirds include Gannet Cay ({{cvt|1.7|ha}}), Bylund Cay ({{cvt|0.6|ha}}), Thomas Cay ({{cvt|1|ha}}), Bacchi Cay ({{cvt|0.5|ha}}), Frigate Cay ({{cvt|2|ha}}), Price Cay ({{cvt|1.6|ha}}), Distant Cay ({{cvt|0.25|ha}}), Riptide Cay ({{cvt|0.25|ha}}) and Bell Cay ({{cvt|1.5|ha}}).<ref>{{citation |publisher=BirdLife International |year=2011 |title=Important Bird Areas factsheet: Swain Reefs |url=http://www.birdlife.org |access-date=2011-10-26}}</ref>

===Fish===
The rockcod (''[[Epinephelus fuscomarginatus]]''), which is popular in [[Australian cuisine]], occurs here at depths of about {{convert|220|m|ft|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Mystery 11-2019">{{cite news |last=Cockburn |first=Harry |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/australia-new-fish-species-grouper-eating-fishing-queensland-a9184371.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/australia-new-fish-species-grouper-eating-fishing-queensland-a9184371.html |archive-date=26 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Mystery fish being eaten by Australians found to be unknown to science |date=2019-11-04 |access-date=2019-11-04}}</ref><ref name="JohnsonWilmer2019">{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=J. |last2=Wilmer |first2=J. Worthington |year=2019 |url=https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4674.3.2 |title=''Epinephelus fuscomarginatus'' (Perciformes: Epinephelidae), a new species of grouper from off the Great Barrier Reef, Australia |journal=[[Zootaxa]] |volume=4674 |issue=3 |pages=zootaxa.4674.3.2 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4674.3.2|pmid=31716001 |s2cid=204142707 }}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Queensland}}
* [[Protected areas of Queensland]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://feverfeverfever.com/content/swains-reef.html Swains Reef]

{{National Parks of Queensland}}
{{North Queensland}}


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[[Category:National parks of Queensland]]
[[Category:Protected areas established in 1995]]
[[Category:1995 establishments in Australia]]
[[Category:Important Bird Areas of Queensland]]
[[Category:Islands on the Great Barrier Reef]]


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