Data Zone
Country/territory: Russia (European)
IBA criteria met: A4i, B1i (2000)
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Area: 23,690 hectares (236.90 km2)
Site description (2001 baseline)
Coastal shallows along the Barents sea shore.
Key biodiversity
Two Somateria species form congregations of up to 100000 individuals [?]. No accurate data area available for either species, but numbers will clealy excede criteria for both species.
Acknowledgements
The map polygon is provided courtesy of the Spatial Database on Important Bird Areas of Russia 2014 (© Russian Bird Conservation Union, © Transparent World).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Coastal belt of eastern Murmansk (Russia (European)). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/coastal-belt-of-eastern-murmansk-iba-russia-(european) on 27/12/2024.