Data Zone
Country/territory: United Kingdom
IBA Criteria met: A4i, B1i, C3, C6 (2007)
For more information about IBA criteria please click here
Area: 1,403 ha
Protection status:
| Most recent IBA monitoring assessment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment | Threat score (pressure) | Condition score (state) | Action score (response) |
| 2007 | medium | unfavourable | low |
| For more information about IBA monitoring please click here | |||
Site description
This site covers a section of the flat, east-facing shoreline of the Irish Sea, and contains rocky outcrops, a number of islands and long sandy beaches. The site is important for wintering waders and geese, wintering and breeding Phalacrocorax carbo and breeding terns. Most Branta bernicla are from the Canadian/Greenland breeding population of the hrota subspecies.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2020) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Outer Ards. Downloaded from
http://www.birdlife.org on 04/08/2020.
