Data Zone
Country/territory: Ireland
IBA Criteria met: B1i, B3, C2, C6 (2009)
For more information about IBA criteria please click here
Area: 1,464 ha
Protection status:
| Most recent IBA monitoring assessment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment | Threat score (pressure) | Condition score (state) | Action score (response) |
| 2009 | low | favourable | low |
| For more information about IBA monitoring please click here | |||
Site description
A complicated system of inter-drumlin lakes, basins and islands on the River Erne, County Cavan. Sheltered shores support swamp and marsh habitat and the site also includes adjacent fields which occasionally flood. The site is a southward extension of Upper Lough Erne (UK site 287) in Northern Ireland.
Key biodiversity
This site is important for its wintering birds. Other species wintering in numbers of national importance are Podiceps cristatus (40 birds, 1996), Phalacrocorax carbo (139 birds, 1996), Cygnus olor (137 birds, 1996) and Anas penelope (1,544 birds, 1995).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2020) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Lough Oughter. Downloaded from
http://www.birdlife.org on 05/08/2020.
