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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
Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata	LC	passage	1997	400 individuals	B1i, C3
Gadwall Mareca strepera	LC	passage	1997	1,500 individuals	A4i, B1i, C3

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

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Wesseker See	Naturschutzgebiet	241	protected area contained by site	246

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Wetlands (inland)	Water fringe vegetation	-

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

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-
hunting	-
other	-

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

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Wesseker See. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/3322 on 06/06/2023.