Current view: Data table and detailed info
The site was identified as important in 2008 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
Brent Goose Branta bernicla
LC
passage
1980
12,000 individuals
A4i
The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2008).
Habitat (IUCN level 1)
Habitat detail
Extent (% of site)
Grassland
Steppe & dry calcareous, Tundra
-
Wetlands (inland)
Rivers, Freshwater lakes & pools
-
Marine Intertidal
-
Marine Neritic
-
For more information about the IUCN Habitat classification, please click
here .
Land-use
Extent (% of site)
nature conservation and research
-
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Babbage and Spring River Deltas. Downloaded from
http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/babbage-and-spring-river-deltas-iba-canada on 01/10/2023.