BirdLife Data Zone

Akrotiri salt-lake including Bishop's Pool

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IBA Criteria

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2000

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala	EN	winter	-	5-10 individuals	A1
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna	LC	winter	1995	300-1,000 individuals	B1i
Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus	LC	winter	1995	2,000-20,000 individuals	A4i, B1i
Common Crane Grus grus	LC	passage	-	common	A4i, B1i
Cyprus Warbler Curruca melanothorax	LC	breeding	1995	10-30 breeding pairs	A2
Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca	LC	breeding	1995	10-30 breeding pairs	A2, B2
A4iv Species group - soaring birds/cranes	n/a	passage	-	2,500-9,999 individuals	B1iv

Note: This table presents the IBA criteria triggered and the species that triggered then at the time of assessment, the current IUCN Red List category may vary from that which was in place at that time.

For more information about the IBA assessment process and criteria please click here

IBA Protection

Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Akrotiri Lake	Game Reserve	2,000	protected area contained by site	2,000

Habitats

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Shrubland	Scrub	-
Wetlands (inland)	Standing freshwater, Standing brackish and salt water, Water fringe vegetation	-
Artificial/Terrestrial	Perennial crops, orchards and groves, Forestry plantations	-
Coastline	Sand dunes & beaches, Salt marshes, Mud flats & sand flats, Lagoons	-
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-
Marine Intertidal		-

For further information about the habitat classification please click here.

Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-
water management	-
military	-
nature conservation and research	-
forestry	-

For further information about the land use classification please click here.

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Akrotiri salt-lake including Bishop's Pool. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 21/03/2023.