BirdLife Data Zone

RU1002

Neman river Delta and the coast of the Curonian Bay

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2007

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population at site	IBA criteria triggered
Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus	VU	passage	1999	20 individuals	A1
Corncrake Crex crex	LC	breeding	1999	300-500 breeding pairs	A1
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo	LC	breeding	2005	6,000-8,000 breeding pairs	A4i, B1i
Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina	LC	breeding	1999	8-11 breeding pairs	B2
White-tailed Sea-eagle Haliaeetus albicilla	LC	resident	2005	12-14 breeding pairs	A1, B2
Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola	VU	breeding	1999	4 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

IBA Conservation

IBA conservation status - summary
Year of assessment (most recent)	Threat (pressure)	Condition (state)	Action (response)
2005	not assessed	not assessed	not assessed
Was the whole site assessed?	no	Condition (state) assessed by	unset
Accuracy of information	-

IBA Protection

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Djunnyi	Zakaznik	8,000	protected area overlaps with site	0

Local Conservation Groups

The Local Conservation Groups below are working to support conservation at this IBA.

Name	Year formed
Caretaker of Delta Nemana i poberezh'ye Kurshskogo zaliva	2005

For more information on BirdLife's work with Local Conservation Groups, please click here.

Habitats

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest	Mixed woodland, Alluvial and very wet forest	-
Grassland	Humid grasslands	-
Wetlands (inland)		-
Artificial/Terrestrial		-

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

Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-
forestry	-
hunting	-
nature conservation and research	-
not utilised	-
tourism/recreation	-

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

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Neman river Delta and the coast of the Curonian Bay. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/1576 on 05/06/2023.