Current view: Text account
Year of compilation: 2001
Site description (baseline)
Group of near-coastal rocky islets in the tundra zone surrounded by unfreezen during winter sea water.
There are more than 20,000 pairs of nesting waterbirds here.
Over-fishing means that there is no food available for birds.
The map polygon is provided courtesy of the Spatial Database on Important Bird Areas of Russia 2014 (© Russian Bird Conservation Union, © Transparent World).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Gavrilovski archipelago. Downloaded from
http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/1448 on 11/06/2023.
