 Recorded breeding seabird species include fairy prion, Pacific gull, silver gull, kelp gull, black-faced cormorant, Australasian gannet, and shy albatross.Australian fur seals use the island as a regular haul-out site while New Zealand fur seals visit occasionally.Remarkably, the tiny, windswept island is the only known habitat of a species of lizard, the Pedra Branca skink, "Niveoscincus palfreymani".