Current view: Data table and detailed info
The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2000 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 |
| Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna |
LC |
winter (1996) |
850 birds |
B1i, C3 |
| Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea |
LC |
resident (1996) |
8 pairs |
B2, C6 |
| Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus |
LC |
winter (1996) |
5,000 birds |
A4i, B1i, C2 |
| Eurasian Thick-knee Burhinus oedicnemus |
LC |
breeding (1996) |
20 pairs |
B2, C6 |
| Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta |
LC |
breeding (1996) |
45 pairs |
C6 |
| Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni |
LC |
breeding (1996) |
220 pairs |
A1, A4ii, B1iii, B2, C1, C2, C6 |
| Habitat |
% of IBA |
Habitat detail |
| Wetlands (inland) |
40 |
Standing freshwater; Water fringe vegetation; Fens, transition mires and springs |
| Artificial/Terrestrial |
30 |
Arable land |
| Marine Neritic |
20 |
|
| Grassland |
10 |
Humid grasslands |
| Marine Coastal/Supratidal |
- |
|
| Marine Intertidal |
- |
|
| Land use |
% of IBA |
| agriculture |
50 |
| water management |
15 |
| fisheries/aquaculture |
15 |
| not utilised |
10 |
| military |
8 |
| urban/industrial/transport |
5 |
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Lakes Chortarolimni and Alyki, Moudros gulf, Diapori fen and Fakos peninsula, Limnos (Greece). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lakes-chortarolimni-and-alyki-moudros-gulf-diapori-fen-and-fakos-peninsula-limnos-iba-greece on 23/12/2024.
