Current view: Data table and detailed info
The site was identified as important in 2005 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria .
Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species'):
Species
Current IUCN Red List Category
Season
Year(s)
Population estimate at site
IBA criteria met
Common Pochard Aythya ferina
VU
winter
1997
1,125-10,240 individuals
B1i, C3
Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus
NT
passage
1996
30 individuals
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C2
Pygmy Cormorant Microcarbo pygmaeus
LC
winter
2001-2004
403-2,175 individuals
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C2
Pygmy Cormorant Microcarbo pygmaeus
LC
passage
1996
200 individuals
A1, C1, C2
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
LC
winter
1997
165-2,331 individuals
B1i, C3
Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
LC
breeding
1996
13 breeding pairs
B3, C6
Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
LC
breeding
1998
30 breeding pairs
C6
Mew Gull Larus canus
LC
winter
1996
30-479 individuals
B1i, C3
A4iv Species group - soaring birds/cranes
n/a
passage
-
3,200-50,700 individuals
A4iv, B1iv, C5
The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2005).
Protected area (PA)
PA designation
PA area (ha)
Relationship of PA with IBA
Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Yatata
Zashtitena Mestnost
154
protected area is adjacent to site
0
Yatata
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
144
protected area is adjacent to site
0
Varnensko-Beloslavsko ezero
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
4,687
is identical to site
4,682
Varnensko - Beloslavski kompleks
Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
178
protected area contained by site
178
Mochurishteto
Zashtitena Mestnost
22
protected area overlaps with site
0
Kazashko
Protected Landscape
125
protected area contained by site
125
Kazashko
Zashtitena Mestnost
125
protected area contained by site
0
Galata
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
8,044
protected area is adjacent to site
0
Habitat (IUCN level 1)
Habitat detail
Extent (% of site)
Wetlands (inland)
Standing freshwater, Standing brackish and salt water, Water fringe vegetation
-
Artificial/Terrestrial
Other urban and industrial areas
-
For more information about the IUCN Habitat classification, please click
here .
Land-use
Extent (% of site)
fisheries/aquaculture
-
urban/industrial/transport
-
hunting
-
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Varna-Beloslav Lakes Complex. Downloaded from
http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/varna-beloslav-lakes-complex-iba-bulgaria on 30/09/2023.