Data Zone
Country/territory: French Polynesia
IBA Justification: A4i (2012)
Area: 12,788,110 hectares (127,881.10 km2)
BirdLife Partner(s): Société d'Ornithologie de Polynésie (Manu)
| Conservation status of the Important Bird Area (IBA) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment (most recent) | State (condition) | Pressure (threat) | Response (action) |
| 2012 | favourable | medium | very low |
Site summary
The site boundary is based upon a seaward extension of 200 km around Clipperton to encompass the foraging range of IBA threshold numbers of Masked Booby based upon a 2003 population estimate of 112,000 individuals and Brown Booby based upon a 2003 population estimate of 25,000 individuals from Pitman, R., Balance, L. and Bost, C. (2005) Clipperton Island: pig sty, rat hole and booby prize. Marine Ornithology, 33:193-194.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2025) Important Bird Area factsheet: Clipperton Marine (French Polynesia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/clipperton-marine-iba-french-polynesia on 18/01/2025.