Graham's Harbour (Bahamas) - BirdLife IBA factsheet

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Graham's Harbour

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important 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 List¹	Season	Year(s)	Size	IBA criteria
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus	LC	breeding	2007	20 breeding pairs	B4ii
Audubon's Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri	LC	breeding	2005	93 breeding pairs	B4ii
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster	LC	breeding	2005	50 breeding pairs	B4ii
Brown Noddy Anous stolidus	LC	breeding	2005	300 breeding pairs	B4i
Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus	LC	breeding	2007	10 breeding pairs	B4i

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2007) may differ.

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 (2013) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2013	near favourable	high	low
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	habitat	unknown

State (condition of the trigger species' habitats)
Habitat	Quantity (% remaining)	Quality (% carrying capacity)	Result
Shrubland	good (> 90%)	moderate (70-90%)	near favourable

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Invasive and other problematic species and genes	happening now	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high
Human intrusions and disturbance	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	slow but significant deterioration	medium

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Little/none of site covered (<10%)	No management plan exists but the management planning process has begun	Some limited conservation initiatives are in place	low

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
2015	Graham's Harbour	National Park	54

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Marine Intertidal		major (>10)
Marine Neritic		major (>10)
Shrubland		-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
urban/industrial/transport	-
tourism/recreation	-
fisheries/aquaculture	-

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Graham's Harbour (Bahamas). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/grahams-harbour-iba-bahamas on 23/11/2024.