Paddys Island
The Paddys Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a uninhabited granite island situated in the Tasman Sea, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.
Other islands in the Waterhouse Group include Ninth, Tenth, Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Maclean, Baynes, Foster [Islands (Tasmania)|Foster], Swan, Swan Island|Little Swan], Cygnet and St Helens islands and Bird Rock and George Rocks islets.
Fauna
The island forms part of the St Helens Important [Bird Area], identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance as a breeding site for seabirds and waders.Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, kelp gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern.