BirdLife Data Zone

FR015

Cap Frehel

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

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 at site	IBA criteria triggered
European Shag Gulosus aristotelis	LC	breeding	1992	230-400 breeding pairs	B3

Note: The current IUCN Red List category may differ from the category that was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment.

For more information about the IBA criteria, please click here

IBA Protection

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
LANDES DU CAP FREHEL	Terrain acquis par le Conservatoire du Littoral	15	protected area contained by site	0
Iles de la Colombière; de la Nellière et des Haches	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	1,696	protected area is adjacent to site	0
Cap Frehel	Hunting Reserve	1,750	protected area contained by site	1,750
Cap d'Erquy-Cap Fréhel	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	40,434	protected area overlaps with site	27,160
Cap d'Erquy-Cap Fréhel	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	55,796	protected area overlaps with site	2,070
Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	14,372	protected area overlaps with site	0
Baie de Saint-Brieuc - Est	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	13,487	protected area overlaps with site	0
Baie de Lancieux; Baie de l'Arguenon, Archipel de Saint Malo et Dinard	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	5,142	protected area overlaps with site	0
BAIE DE LA FRESNAYE	Terrain acquis par le Conservatoire du Littoral	14	protected area overlaps with site	0
Baie de L'Arguenon	Terrain acquis par le Conservatoire du Littoral	10	protected area overlaps with site	0

Habitats

For further information about the IUCN habitat classification, please click here.

Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
hunting	-
tourism/recreation	-

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

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Cap Frehel. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/2210 on 05/06/2023.