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Site description (2001 baseline):
Site location and context
Coastal shallows along the Barents sea shore.
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.
Conservation responses/actions for key biodiversity
Unprotected
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 28/12/2024.
