Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge (USA)

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Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important in 2009 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
Hawaiian Duck Anas wyvilliana	VU	non-breeding	2004	89 individuals	A1, A4i
Hawaiian Coot Fulica alai	NT	breeding	2001	614 individuals	A1, A2, A4i
Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus	LC	breeding	2003	1,079 individuals	A4i

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2009) may differ.

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2009. The most recent assessment (2012) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2012	not assessed	not assessed	high
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	unset	good

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Whole area of site (>90%) covered by appropriate conservation designation	A comprehensive and appropriate management plan exists that aims to maintain or improve the populations of qualifying bird species	Substantive conservation measures are being implemented but these are not comprehensive and are limited by resources and capacity	high

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1960	Kealia Pond	National Wildlife Refuge	100

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Wetlands (inland)	Freshwater lakes & pools, Freshwater marshes & swamps	93
Forest	Tropical lowland evergreen	7

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
nature conservation and research	100

Land ownership

The land occupied by Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge is owned by Alexander and Baldwin, Inc., but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a perpetual conservation easement over 691 acres at Kealia Pond and is currently working with the landowner on the conveyance of a perpetual easement over 9-34 acres as a contiguous extension of the refuge on the Ma'alaea mudflats.

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge (USA). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/kealia-pond-national-wildlife-refuge-iba-usa on 23/11/2024.