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Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
The site includes the narrow sand beach of Chituc and associated coastal waters; there is very little tidal fluctuation. There are only two temporary fishing settlements along a 22 km stretch of coastline.
An important area for wintering wildfowl, holding 20,000 or more on a regular basis. Wintering species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria:
Aythya nyroca,
Oxyura leucocephala and
Haliaeetus albicilla.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
The main threat is pollution, which is reducing the food resource available to birds (`Other' threat, above). The Danube Delta Research and Management Institute study the reserve as a whole; ROS study the bird fauna. A management plan exists for the site.
National High
International HighIBA overlaps with Biosphere Reserve (Danube Delta).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Black Sea (Romania). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/black-sea-iba-romania on 23/12/2024.
