Lakes Alexandrina and Albert


Country/territory: Australia

IBA criteria met: A1, A4i (2009)
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Area: 130,085 hectares (1,300.85 km2)

BirdLife Australia
IBA conservation status
Year of assessment (most recent) State (condition) Pressure (threat) Response (action)
2008 not assessed high not assessed
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Site summary
The IBA regularly supports the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot, the endangered Australasian Bittern, the vulnerable Fairy Tern, and more than 1% of the world population of Cape Barren Goose, Australian Shelduck, Great Cormorant and Sharp-tailed Sandpiper amongst about 100,000 waterbirds in 2007.

Acknowledgements
Simon Brealey helped draft the nomination. Richard Kingsford and John Porter (University of New South Wales) kindly provided aerial waterbird data, which was funded by Murray Darling Basin Commission (through Lex Cogle). Andrew Black summarised information in Eckert (2000).


Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Lakes Alexandrina and Albert (Australia). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lakes-alexandrina-and-albert-iba-australia on 23/12/2024.