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Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2008

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population at site	IBA criteria triggered
Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata	LC	breeding	1989	41,700 breeding pairs	A4ii
Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata	LC	breeding	1989	34,900 breeding pairs	A4ii
Cassin's Auklet Ptychoramphus aleuticus	NT	breeding	1989	990,000 breeding pairs	A4ii
A4iii Species group - seabirds	n/a	breeding	1989	500,000-999,999 individuals	A4iii

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

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Scott Islands Park	Provincial Park	336	protected area contained by site	9,200
Sartine Islands Ecological Reserve	Ecological Reserve	1,092	protected area contained by site	1,100
Lanz And Cox Islands Park	A - Park	5,562	protected area contained by site	5,500
Cape Scott Park	A - Park	22,310	protected area is adjacent to site	140
Beresford Island Ecological Reserve	Ecological Reserve	426	protected area contained by site	420
Anne Vallee (Triangle Island) Ecological Reserve	Ecological Reserve	980	protected area contained by site	980

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest	Temperate coniferous	-
Marine Neritic		-
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-

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

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
not utilised	-

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

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Scott Island Group. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/11047 on 06/06/2023.