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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
Fiordland Penguin Eudyptes pachyrhynchus	NT	breeding	1968-1980	115-261 breeding pairs	A1, A4ii

The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2014).

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Open Bay Islands	Wildlife Refuge	16	protected area overlaps with site	0

Habitat (IUCN level 1)	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-
Shrubland		-
Forest		-
Marine Intertidal		-

For more information about the IUCN Habitat classification, please click here.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Open Bay Islands. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/open-bay-islands-iba-new-zealand on 22/09/2023.