Current view: Data table and detailed info
The site was identified as important in 2000 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
Greylag Goose Anser anser
LC
passage
1999
2,000 individuals
B1i
Greater Scaup Aythya marila
LC
passage
1992
4,000-6,000 individuals
A4i, B1i
Common Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus
LC
breeding
1999
50 breeding pairs
B2
Great White Egret Ardea alba
LC
breeding
1992
120 breeding pairs
A4i, B1i
Great White Egret Ardea alba
LC
passage
1999
500-600 individuals
A4i, B1i
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
LC
breeding
1992
1,330 breeding pairs
B1i
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
LC
passage
1999
25,000-35,000 individuals
A4i, B1i
Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus
LC
breeding
1999
5,000-10,000 breeding pairs
A4i, B1i
Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
LC
breeding
1999
5,000-10,000 breeding pairs
A4i, B1i
A4iii Species group - waterbirds
n/a
breeding
1999
10,000-19,999 breeding pairs
A4iii
A4iii Species group - waterbirds
n/a
passage
1999
20,000-49,999 individuals
A4iii
The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2000).
Protected area (PA)
PA designation
PA area (ha)
Relationship of PA with IBA
Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Obytochna Spit and Obytochna Bay
Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance
2,000
protected area contains site
2,000
Kosa Obitochna
State Zakaznik
8,863
protected area overlaps with site
0
Habitat (IUCN level 1)
Habitat detail
Extent (% of site)
Shrubland
Scrub
-
Marine Neritic
-
Marine Coastal/Supratidal
-
Marine Intertidal
-
For more information about the IUCN Habitat classification, please click
here .
Land-use
Extent (% of site)
agriculture
-
fisheries/aquaculture
-
tourism/recreation
-
urban/industrial/transport
-
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Obytichna peninsula. Downloaded from
http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/obytichna-peninsula-iba-ukraine on 09/12/2023.