BirdLife Data Zone

Buckingham Bay

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2009

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population at site	IBA criteria triggered
Pied Heron Egretta picata	LC	resident	1990-1999	2,000 individuals	A4i
Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis	EN	non-breeding	1990-2002	700 individuals	A4i

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 Conservation

IBA conservation status - summary
Year of assessment (most recent)	Threat (pressure)	Condition (state)	Action (response)
2008	medium	not assessed	not assessed
Was the whole site assessed?	yes	Condition (state) assessed by	unset
Accuracy of information	poor

Threats to the site (pressure)
Threat level 1	Threat level 2	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Climate change and severe weather	storms and floods	likely in long term (beyond 4 years)	some of area/population (10-49%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium
Invasive and other problematic species and genes	invasive non-native/alien species/diseases - named species	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium

Conservation actions taken at the site (response)
Protected-area designation	Management planning	Other conservation action	Result
Not assessed	Not assessed	Not assessed	not assessed

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IBA Protection

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Marthakal	Indigenous Protected Area	323,047	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)
other	-

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Land ownership

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Buckingham Bay. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/23408 on 28/05/2023.