BirdLife Data Zone

BS029

Southern Great Lake

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2007

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population at site	IBA criteria triggered
Bahama Hummingbird Nesophlox evelynae	LC	resident	2007	unknown	A2
Laughing Gull Larus atricilla	LC	breeding	2006	50-249 breeding pairs	A4i
Common Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica	LC	breeding	2006	5 breeding pairs	B4i
Thick-billed Vireo Vireo crassirostris	LC	resident	2006	unknown	A2
Pearly-eyed Thrasher Margarops fuscatus	LC	resident	2007	unknown	A2
Bahama Mockingbird Mimus gundlachii	LC	resident	2007	unknown	A2

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

IBA Conservation

IBA conservation status - summary
Year of assessment (most recent)	Threat (pressure)	Condition (state)	Action (response)
2013	medium	not assessed	low
Was the whole site assessed?	yes	Condition (state) assessed by	unset
Accuracy of information	unknown

Threats to the site (pressure)
Threat level 1	Threat level 2	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Residential and commercial development	tourism and recreation areas	likely in short term (within 4 years)	some of area/population (10-49%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium

Conservation actions taken at the site (response)
Protected-area designation	Management planning	Other conservation action	Result
Little/none of site covered (<10%)	No management plan exists but the management planning process has begun	Some limited conservation initiatives are in place	low

For more information about IBA conservation status, please click here

IBA Protection

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Great Lake	Protected Area	0	protected area overlaps with site	0

Habitats

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

Land use

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

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

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Southern Great Lake. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/20594 on 30/05/2023.