East Sanday (United Kingdom) IBA | Details

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East Sanday

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2007 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
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres	NT	winter (2007)	838 birds	B2
Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis	LC	breeding (1994)	135 pairs	C6

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2007. The most recent assessment (2007) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2007	very poor	medium	low
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	population	good

State (condition of the trigger species' populations)
Species	Actual vs Reference (units)	% remaining	Result
Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula	85 / 710 (birds)	12	very poor
Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica	449 / 870 (birds)	52	poor
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres	838 / 1,270 (birds)	66	poor
Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima	447 / 780 (birds)	58	poor
Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis	26 / 135 (pairs)	20	very poor

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Climate change and severe weather	happening now	some of population/area (10–49%)	slow decline (1–10% over 3 generations)	medium

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Designation	Planning	Action	Result
Most of area (50–90%) covered (including the most critical parts for important bird species)	Unknown	Not assessed	low

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
1973	Northwall	Site of Special Scientific Interest (UK) (IV)	11
1987	Central Sanday	Site of Special Scientific Interest (UK) (IV)	31
1996	East Sanday Coast	Site of Special Scientific Interest (UK) (IV)	48
2005	Sanday	Marine Protected Area (OSPAR) (UA)	49
2011	East Sanday Coast	Marine Protected Area (OSPAR) (UA)	49

Habitats

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Grassland	-	Machair
Marine Coastal/Supratidal	-
Marine Intertidal	-

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
not utilised	95
fisheries/aquaculture	5

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: East Sanday (United Kingdom). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/east-sanday-iba-united-kingdom on 25/12/2024.