The beaches, estuaries, sand spits, rocky headlands and offshore islands of the Bega Valley Shire support threatened shorebirds.
Bega Valley Shire Council works closely with the South Coast Shorebird Recovery Program, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, and the NSW Government’s Saving our Species program to look after threatened shorebirds. Read our Threatened Shorebirds in Bega Valley Shire: Action Plan
There are some very simple actions we can all take to protect shorebirds, their habitat, their eggs and their chicks so they can continue to be part of our beautiful Sapphire Coast.
Critically endangered in NSW
60 pairs in NSW. 12 breeding pairs in Bega Valley Shire.
Phote: Leo Berzins
Endangered in NSW
Scattered breeeding pairs along the Bega Valley Shire coastline.
Phote: Leo Berzins
Endangered in NSW
16 colonies in NSW
Major colony at Mogareeka - Wallagoot Lake over summer. Former colony at Wallaga Lake, unoccupied since 2003 due to human disturbance.
Phote: Geoff Ross/DPIE