Data Zone
Country/territory: Papua New Guinea
IBA Criteria met: A1, A4ii (2012)
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Area: 571,443 ha
| Most recent IBA monitoring assessment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment | Threat score (pressure) | Condition score (state) | Action score (response) |
| 2012 | high | favourable | negligible |
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Site summary
The site boundary is based upon a precautionary seaward extension of 25 km around at sea sightings of Beck's Petrel yielding a population estimate of 58-115 individuals from Bird, J. P. (in press) Targeted searches to identify nesting grounds of Beck’s Petrel Pseudobulweria becki; Shirihai, H. (2008a) Rediscovery of Beck’s Petrel Pseudobulweria becki, and other oservations of tubenoses from the Bismarck archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’Club 128: 3-16; Shirihai, H. (2008b) Tubenoses at the Bismarck Archipelago: Surveying at sea populations of the Beck’s Petrel; in search of the Fiji-like Petrel Expedition # 3. Unpublished report, August 2008.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2022) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Southern New Ireland Marine. Downloaded from
http://www.birdlife.org on 19/01/2022.
