Limeburners Lagoon State Nature Reserve

Located on the northern shore of Corio Bay, near the Hovells Creek entrance in the City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, is the Limeburners Lagoon State Nature Reserve Corio.

Managed in partnership with Parks Victoria, the reserve is home to many native plants and animals, including a diverse range of water and wading birds. This makes the reserve a favoured feeding, roosting, and resting habitat for the wildlife in and around the lagoon.

Limeburners Bay is a broad and sandy estuarine inlet characterised by open, shallow tidal water. The bay supports a high diversity of birdlife, with particular species that give the area status under the internationally-recognised Ramsar Convention. The bay is part of the Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar site, and it has a State Significance rating.

The shorelines and sandy spits are important feeding and roosting environments for a diverse range of birdlife. The inlet also supports large beds of seagrass that exist in the shallow waters, providing important bird feeding ground and fish nursery habitat. A wide range of coastal and wetland flora species survive on the shores of the tidal inlet and creek, with regionally significant stands of White Mangrove line the shores of Hovells Creek. The Chaffy Saw-Sedge Saline herbfield provides habitat for the Altona Skipper Butterfly. Key bird species to look for include the Fairy Tern, a species that nests on the offshore estuarine islands, breeds from August to September, and feeds close in-shore on small schooling fish. The Lewin's Rail, a rare waterbird species, has also been spotted in the area. There is