 All twelve of Tasmania's endemic bird species are present, notably the forty-spotted pardalote ("pardalotus quadragintus") for which the island is the main stronghold.Little penguins ("Eudyptula minor") and hooded plovers ("Thinornis rubicollis") also breed along the coast.Reptiles recorded include the tiger snake ("Notechis scutatus"), lowland copperhead ("Austrelaps superbus") and white-lipped snake ("Drysdalia coronoides").