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Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2015

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
European Storm-petrel Hydrobates pelagicus	LC	breeding	1991	50,000-100,000 breeding pairs	A4ii, B1ii, B3
Hydrobates leucorhous	NR	breeding	1991	167,600-224,600 breeding pairs	A4ii, B1ii
Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis	LC	breeding	2006-2008	38,377-38,984 nests	B2
Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus	LC	breeding	1991	8,000-10,000 breeding pairs	A4ii, B1ii, B3
Northern Gannet Morus bassanus	LC	breeding	2005-2008	12,085 nests	A4ii, B1ii, B3
Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla	VU	breeding	2006-2008	50,185 nests	A4i, B1i, B2
Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica	VU	breeding	2010	649,300-1,020,900 breeding pairs	A1, A4ii, B1ii, B2
Razorbill Alca torda	NT	breeding	2006-2008	2,248-3,502 breeding pairs	B2
Common Murre Uria aalge	LC	breeding	2005-2007	31,129-34,902 breeding pairs	A4ii, B1ii, B2
A4iii Species group - seabirds	n/a	breeding	2005-2010	785,806-1,158,013 breeding pairs	A4iii

Note: This table presents the IBA criteria triggered and the species that triggered then at the time of assessment, the current IUCN Red List category may vary from that which was in place at that time.

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Protection status:

Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Surtsey	Nature Reserve	6,559	protected area contained by site	270

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Grassland		-
Sea	Open Sea, Sea inlets and coastal features	-
Coastline	Sea cliffs and rocky shores, Rock stacks and islets	-

For further information about the habitat classification please click here.

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
other	-
nature conservation and research	-
tourism/recreation	-

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

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2019) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Vestmannaeyjar. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 15/12/2019.