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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
Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle	LC	breeding	1990	21 breeding pairs	B2

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)
Howth Head SAC	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	375	protected area overlaps with site	61

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

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

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
tourism/recreation	-
fisheries/aquaculture	-
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: Howth Head. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/661 on 05/06/2023.