The lake serves as a major migratory stop-over area for a variety of shorebirds.
 It also provides a major breeding habitat of several species of water birds, including cormorants and terns.
 It has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports over 1% of the world populations of hardheads, grey teals, pink-eared ducks, little black cormorants, brolgas, sharp-tailed sandpipers.
 It sometimes supports similarly important numbers of magpie geese, Pacific black ducks, freckled ducks and Oriental plovers, as well as providing habitat for Australian bustards.

The lake regularly supports over 100,000 water birds, more than any other inland fresh water lake in Australia.
In 1988 more than half a million water birds were recorded at the lake representing at least 67 different species.
The lake serves as a major migratory stop-over area for a variety of shorebirds.  It also provides a major breeding habitat of several species of water birds, including cormorants and terns.  It has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports over 1% of the world populations of hardheads, grey teals, pink-eared ducks, little black cormorants, brolgas, sharp-tailed sandpipers.  It sometimes supports similarly important numbers of magpie geese, Pacific black ducks, freckled ducks and Oriental plovers, as well as providing habitat for Australian bustards.
The lake regularly supports over 100,000 water birds, more than any other inland fresh water lake in Australia. In 1988 more than half a million water birds were recorded at the lake representing at least 67 different species.
Lake Gregory (Western Australia)