Current view: Data table and detailed info
The site was identified as important in 2000 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria .
Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species'):
Species
Current IUCN Red List Category
Season
Year(s)
Population estimate at site
IBA criteria met
Mute Swan Cygnus olor
LC
winter
1993
10-1,600 individuals
B1i, C3
The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2000).
Habitat (IUCN level 1)
Habitat detail
Extent (% of site)
Forest
Alluvial and very wet forest
-
Grassland
Humid grasslands
-
Artificial/Terrestrial
Arable land, Ruderal land
-
Marine Neritic
-
Marine Coastal/Supratidal
-
Marine Intertidal
-
For more information about the IUCN Habitat classification, please click
here .
Land-use
Extent (% of site)
agriculture
-
fisheries/aquaculture
-
tourism/recreation
-
urban/industrial/transport
-
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Megalo and Mikro Livari lagoons, Istiaia. Downloaded from
http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/megalo-and-mikro-livari-lagoons-istiaia-iba-greece on 28/11/2023.