Current view: Data table and detailed info
The site was identified as important in 2014 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria .
Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species'):
Species
Current IUCN Red List Category
Season
Year(s)
Population estimate at site
IBA criteria met
Brent Goose Branta bernicla
LC
breeding
1990-2007
108 mature individuals
A3, B1i, B3
Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis
LC
breeding
1989
115-175 breeding pairs
A3
Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus
LC
breeding
1980-1988
present
A3
Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis
VU
breeding
2005-2014
unknown
A1, A3
Common Eider Somateria mollissima
NT
breeding
1982-2010
5,100 mature individuals
A3, B1i, B3
Sabine's Gull Xema sabini
LC
breeding
2007
26 mature individuals
A3
Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
VU
breeding
1973-2011
45,600 mature individuals
B1i
Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
LC
breeding
1985-2011
670 mature individuals
A3
Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
LC
breeding
1980-1988
1,500 breeding pairs
A3
Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle
LC
breeding
1973-2011
1,272 mature individuals
B1ii, B2
Little Auk Alle alle
LC
breeding
1978-2011
260,900 mature individuals
A3, A4ii, B1ii
Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia
LC
breeding
1973-2011
101,300 mature individuals
B1ii, B2
A4iii Species group - seabirds
n/a
breeding
1973-2011
413,500 mature individuals
A4iii
The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2014).
Habitat (IUCN level 1)
Habitat detail
Extent (% of site)
Grassland
Tundra
-
Marine Neritic
-
Marine Coastal/Supratidal
-
For more information about the IUCN Habitat classification, please click
here .
Land-use
Extent (% of site)
nature conservation and research
-
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Northwest Spitsbergen National Park. Downloaded from
http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/northwest-spitsbergen-national-park-iba-svalbard-and-jan-mayen-islands-(to-norway) on 01/12/2023.