Clipperton Marine


Country/territory: French Polynesia

IBA criteria met: A4i (2012)
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Area: 12,788,110 hectares (127,881.10 km2)

Société d'Ornithologie de Polynésie (Manu)
IBA conservation status
Year of assessment (most recent) State (condition) Pressure (threat) Response (action)
2012 good medium very low
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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 (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Clipperton Marine (French Polynesia). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/clipperton-marine-iba-french-polynesia on 23/12/2024.