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The site was identified as important in 2016 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.

Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species') at the site:

Species	Red List1	Season	Year(s)	Size	IBA criteria
Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis	VU	passage	2000	min 54,000 individuals	A1, A4i
Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis	VU	winter	2007	min 10,000 individuals	A1
Steller's Eider Polysticta stelleri	VU	passage	1990-1999	1,000-2,000 individuals	A1, A4i
Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus	LC	breeding	2008	min 2,092 individuals	A4i
Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus	LC	breeding	1991	22,000 breeding pairs	A4i
Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus	LC	breeding	2008	min 5,534 individuals	A4i
Tufted Puffin Fratercula cirrhata	LC	breeding	2008	min 76,924 individuals	A4ii
Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus	LC	breeding	2008	min 85,256 individuals	A4ii
Steller's Sea-eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus	VU	resident	2004	present	A1
A4iii Species group - seabirds	n/a	breeding	2008	170,000 individuals	A4iii
A4iii Species group - waterbirds	n/a	breeding	1991	min 66,000 individuals	A4iii

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2016) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
-	Khlamovitskiy	Zakaznik	<1

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Marine Neritic		major (>10)
Forest	Forest steppe (temperate/boreal)	-
Grassland	Edaphic grassland	-
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-
Marine Intertidal		-
Wetlands (inland)	Freshwater lakes and pools, Permanent swamps	-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Avachinskaya Bay and Starichkov Island (Russia (Asian)). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/avachinskaya-bay-and-starichkov-island-iba-russia-(asian) on 23/11/2024.