It supports the largest flock of common greenshanks in Tasmania. Nearby areas provide summer habitats for snipe, greenshanks, oystercatchers, lapwings and others. The birds are diverse, including greenshanks, dunlins, spotted redshanks, pipits and dunlins. Birds are uncommon, with greenshanks, little grebes, sacred ibis and stilts. Common greenshanks are brown in breeding plumage, and grey-brown in winter.