Current view: Data table and detailed info
The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2005 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 List |
Season (year/s of estimate) |
Size |
IBA criteria |
| White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala |
EN |
winter (2000) |
958 birds |
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C2 |
| White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala |
EN |
passage (1997) |
19–43 birds |
A1, C1 |
| Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus |
LC |
winter (1997) |
20–174 birds |
B1i, C2 |
| Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis |
VU |
winter (1997) |
7–1,975 birds |
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C2 |
| Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons |
LC |
winter (2001) |
12,127 birds |
B1i, C3 |
| Common Pochard Aythya ferina |
VU |
winter (1996) |
355–25,500 birds |
A4i, B1i, C3 |
| Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula |
LC |
winter (1997) |
250–15,807 birds |
B1i, C3 |
| Common Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus |
LC |
breeding (1998) |
30 pairs |
B2, C6 |
| Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus |
NT |
winter (1998) |
132 birds |
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C2 |
| Great White Pelican Pelecanus onocrotalus |
LC |
passage (1998) |
2,074 birds |
A4i, B1i, C2 |
| Pygmy Cormorant Microcarbo pygmaeus |
LC |
winter (1999) |
5,100 birds |
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C2 |
| Pygmy Cormorant Microcarbo pygmaeus |
LC |
passage (1996) |
9–92 birds |
A1, C1 |
| Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo |
LC |
winter (2000) |
6,122 birds |
A4i, B1i, C3 |
| Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis |
LC |
winter (1998) |
1,500 birds |
B1i, C3 |
| A4iii Species group - waterbirds |
n/a |
winter (-) |
20,000-49,999 birds |
A4iii, C4 |
| Year |
Protected Area |
Designation (management category) |
% coverage of IBA |
| 1973 |
Vaya |
Protected Landscape (-) |
13 |
| 1997 |
Vaya
|
Zashtitena Mestnost (VI) |
12 |
| Habitat |
% of IBA |
Habitat detail |
| Marine Coastal/Supratidal |
100 |
|
| Land use |
% of IBA |
| fisheries/aquaculture |
80 |
| hunting |
50 |
| urban/industrial/transport |
50 |
| agriculture |
5 |
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Burgasko Lake (Bulgaria). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/burgasko-lake-iba-bulgaria on 23/12/2024.
