Here is one of the resident white bellied sea eagles, Haliaeetus leucogaster:

This is a big bird, with nearly a 2m wingspan. But they have few places to perch in order to survey their patch so they utilise what is available; the visitors’ seat:

or the toilet block:

     

In season there are literally millions of birds here - over a million pairs of wedge tailed shearwaters alone, for instance. But it’s not the breeding season, so there are many fewer about. Here are some Caspian terns taking a well-earned rest on the jetty rail:

Amazingly there are wallabies here, in sufficient numbers to wear paths in the vegetation:

     

These are Tammar wallabies Macropus eugenii, and there are lots of them. These are almost certainly the very first marsupials ever seen by Western eyes, reported by the survivors of the ‘Batavia’ wreck of 1629.

And there are reptiles, an astounding 22 species of them; some of them endemic to the archipelago. 

Here is the rare carpet python Morelia spilota imbricata, more commonly seen curled up sunbathing at this time of year:

   

And the Abrolhos dwarf dragon Pogona minor minima ( a lovely name):

    

And the Abrolhos spiny tailed skink Eugenia stokesii stokesii: