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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
Razorbill Alca torda	LC	breeding	1999	6,739 individuals	B1ii, B3, 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)
Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	2,385	protected area contains site	0
Horn Head SPA - IE0004012	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	0	protected area overlaps with site	396
Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	2,343	protected area contains site	468
Horn Head	Refuge for Fauna	0	protected area contains site	176

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-

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

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
not utilised	-

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

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Horn Head cliffs. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/549 on 28/05/2023.