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Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site, the Glossary

The Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site is one of the Australian sites listed under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international importance.^[1]

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Avalon Airport

Avalon Airport is a domestic airport, located in Avalon in the City of Greater Geelong in Victoria, Australia.

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Banded stilt

The banded stilt (Cladorhynchus leucocephalus) is a nomadic wader of the stilt and avocet family, Recurvirostridae, native to Australia.

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The Barwon River is a perennial river of the Corangamite catchment, located in The Otways and the Bellarine Peninsula regions of the Australian state of Victoria. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Barwon River (Victoria) are Bellarine Peninsula.

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Bellarine Peninsula

The Bellarine Peninsula (Wadawurrung: Balla-wein or Biteyong) is a peninsula located south-west of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, surrounded by Port Phillip, Corio Bay and Bass Strait. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Bellarine Peninsula are Port Phillip.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats.

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Common greenshank

The common greenshank (Tringa nebularia) is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders.

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Corio Bay

Corio Bay is one of numerous internal bays in the southwest corner of Australia's Port Phillip, and is the bay on which abuts the City of Geelong. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Corio Bay are Port Phillip and Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Critically Endangered

An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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Curlew sandpiper

The curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) is a small wader that breeds on the tundra of Arctic Siberia.

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Double-banded plover

The double-banded plover (Anarhynchus bicinctus), known as the banded dotterel or pohowera in New Zealand, is a species of bird in the plover family.

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East Asian–Australasian Flyway

The East Asian–Australasian Flyway is one of the world's great flyways of migratory birds.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Far Eastern curlew

The Far Eastern curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) is a large shorebird most similar in appearance to the long-billed curlew, but slightly larger.

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Fresh water

Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.

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Grey plover

The grey plover or black-bellied plover (Pluvialis squatarola) is a large plover breeding in Arctic regions.

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Intertidal zone

The intertidal zone or foreshore is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide; in other words, it is the part of the littoral zone within the tidal range.

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Lake

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.

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Lake Connewarre

Lake Connewarre (Aboriginal Wathawurrung language: Kunawarr keelingk literally meaning black swan lake), a shallow estuarine lake on the Barwon River, is located on the Bellarine Peninsula southeast of Geelong in the Australian state of Victoria. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and lake Connewarre are Bellarine Peninsula and Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Limeburners Bay

Limeburners Bay, one of numerous bays in Port Phillip, lies in the southwest and adjoins Corio Bay, which abuts Geelong, the second largest city in Victoria, Australia. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Limeburners Bay are Port Phillip and Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Marsh sandpiper

The marsh sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis) is a small wader.

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Mud Islands

The Mud Islands reserve is located within Port Phillip, about south-west of Melbourne, Australia, lying inside Port Phillip Heads, north of Portsea and east of Queenscliff. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Mud Islands are Port Phillip and Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Mudflat

Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers.

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Murtnaghurt Lagoon

Murtnaghurt Lagoon, also known as Murtnaghurt Swamp or Lake Murtnaghurt, is a shallow, ephemeral wetland west of the town of Barwon Heads on the southern coast of the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Murtnaghurt Lagoon are Bellarine Peninsula and Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Orange-bellied parrot

The orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) is a small parrot endemic to southern Australia, and one of only three species of parrot that migrate.

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Pacific golden plover

The Pacific golden plover (Pluvialis fulva) is a migratory shorebird that breeds during summer in Alaska and Siberia.

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Pied oystercatcher

The pied oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris) is a species of oystercatcher.

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Pimelea spinescens

Pimelea spinescens, commonly known as plains rice-flower, spiny rice-flower or prickly pimelea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Victoria.

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Point Cook Coastal Park

The Point Cook Coastal Park covers an area of and includes the Cheetham Wetlands.

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Point Cook, Victoria

Point Cook is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Point Cook, Victoria are Port Phillip.

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Point Lillias

Point Lillias is a narrow peninsula jutting southwards from the northern coast of Corio Bay, north of the city of Geelong, in Victoria, Australia. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Point Lillias are Port Phillip and Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Point Wilson, Victoria

Point Wilson is a locality located on the northern shores of Corio Bay, Victoria. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Point Wilson, Victoria are Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Port Phillip

Port Phillip (Kulin: Narm-Narm) or Port Phillip Bay is a horsehead-shaped enclosed bay on the central coast of southern Victoria, Australia.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).

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Red-kneed dotterel

The red-kneed dotterel (Erythrogonys cinctus) is a species of plover in a monotypic genus in the subfamily Vanellinae.

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Red-necked avocet

The red-necked avocet (Recurvirostra novaehollandiae) also known as the Australian avocet, cobbler, cobbler's awl, and painted lady, is a wader of the family Recurvirostridae that is endemic to Australia and is fairly common and widespread throughout, except for the north and north east coastal areas of the country.

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Red-necked stint

The red-necked stint (Calidris ruficollis) is a small migratory wader.

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Reedy Lake

Reedy Lake, historically also known as Lake Reedy, is a shallow intermittent freshwater lake or swamp on the lower reaches of the Barwon River, on the Bellarine Peninsula southeast of Geelong in the Australian state of Victoria. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Reedy Lake are Bellarine Peninsula and Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Ruddy turnstone

The ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a small cosmopolitan wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria.

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Seagrass

Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine environments.

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Sharp-tailed sandpiper

The sharp-tailed sandpiper (Calidris acuminata) is a small-medium migratory wader or shorebird, found mostly in Siberia during the summer breeding period (June to August) and Australia for wintering (September to March).

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Spit Nature Conservation Reserve

The Spit Nature Conservation Reserve is a 3-kilometer nature reserve on the north-western shore of Port Phillip, a large bay in Victoria, Australia. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Spit Nature Conservation Reserve are Port Phillip and Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Swamp

A swamp is a forested wetland.

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Swan Bay

The Swan Bay is a shallow, marine embayment at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula in Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Swan Bay are Bellarine Peninsula, Port Phillip and Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands Important Bird Area

The Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands Important Bird Area comprises a cluster of disparate sites centred at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula, and the southern end of Port Phillip, in Victoria, south-eastern Australia. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands Important Bird Area are Bellarine Peninsula, Port Phillip and wetlands of Victoria (state).

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Wader

A flock of Dunlins and Red knots Waders or shorebirds are birds of the order Charadriiformes commonly found wading along shorelines and mudflats in order to forage for food crawling or burrowing in the mud and sand, usually small arthropods such as aquatic insects or crustaceans.

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Water bird

A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water.

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Werribee and Avalon Important Bird Area

The Werribee and Avalon Important Bird Area comprises some 37 km2 of coastal land along the northwestern shore of Port Phillip in the state of Victoria, in southeastern Australia. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Werribee and Avalon Important Bird Area are Port Phillip.

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Western Treatment Plant

The Western Treatment Plant (formerly the Metropolitan Sewage Farm or, more commonly, the Werribee Sewage Farm) is a sewage treatment plant in Cocoroc, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's central business district, on the coast of Port Phillip Bay. Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site and Western Treatment Plant are Ramsar sites in Australia.

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Wetland

A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Phillip_Bay_(Western_Shoreline)_and_Bellarine_Peninsula_Ramsar_Site

Also known as Port Phillip Bay Ramsar Site, Port Phillip Ramsar Site, The Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site.

, Wetland.

Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site, the Glossary

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See also

Environment of Victoria (state)

Protected areas of Victoria (state)

Wetlands of Victoria (state)

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