BirdLife Data Zone

LT036

Flooded meadows arround the Senoji & Naujoji Rusne lakes

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IBA Criteria

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2004

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus	LC	-	1999	300 individuals	C3
Bean Goose Anser fabalis	LC	passage	1999	800 individuals	C3
Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons	LC	passage	1996-1999	10,000 individuals	A4i, B1i
Corncrake Crex crex	LC	breeding	1999	80 males	A1, C1
Spotted Crake Porzana porzana	LC	breeding	1996-1998	15 males	B3
Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa	NT	breeding	1996-1999	20 breeding pairs	B2
Little Gull Hydrocoloeus minutus	LC	breeding	1999	30 breeding pairs	B2
Black Tern Chlidonias niger	LC	breeding	1999	80 breeding pairs	B2, C6

Note: This table presents the IBA criteria triggered and the species that triggered then at the time of assessment, the current IUCN Red List category may vary from that which was in place at that time.

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IBA Protection

Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Senrusnės ir Sennemunės ežerai	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	1,586	is identical to site	1,586
Senosios Rusnes ornitologinis draustinis	Gamtinis draustinis	95	protected area contained by site	0

Habitats

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Wetlands (inland)	Rivers and streams, Standing freshwater	-
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land, Perennial crops, orchards and groves	-
Grassland		-

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Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
tourism/recreation	-
nature conservation and research	-
fisheries/aquaculture	-
rangeland/pastureland	-
agriculture	-

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

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2022) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Flooded meadows arround the Senoji & Naujoji Rusne lakes. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 26/01/2022.