The site was identified as important in 2000 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.
Species |
Red List1 |
Season |
Year(s) |
Size |
IBA criteria |
Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis |
VU |
breeding |
1995 |
100 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Common Scoter Melanitta nigra |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
50-80 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Smew Mergellus albellus |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
10-20 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Greater Scaup Aythya marila |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
20 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Eurasian Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
500-980 breeding pairs |
B3 |
Broad-billed Sandpiper Calidris falcinellus |
VU |
breeding |
1995 |
5 breeding pairs |
B2 |
Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
10 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Little Stint Calidris minuta |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
2-7 individuals |
A3 |
Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
10 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
200 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
200 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
900 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
4,000 breeding pairs |
A4i, B1i, B2 |
Northern Hawk-owl Surnia ulula |
LC |
resident |
1994 |
10-800 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Great Grey Owl Strix nebulosa |
LC |
resident |
1995 |
20 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
10-200 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Three-toed Woodpecker Picoides tridactylus |
LC |
resident |
1995 |
2,500-3,500 breeding pairs |
B2 |
Gyrfalcon Falco rusticolus |
LC |
resident |
1995 |
2-5 breeding pairs |
A3, B2 |
Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus |
LC |
resident |
1995 |
880-2,000 breeding pairs |
A3, B2 |
Siberian Tit Poecile cinctus |
LC |
resident |
1995 |
4,400-10,300 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
1-6,000 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Song Thrush Turdus philomelos |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
1,500-1,700 breeding pairs |
B3 |
Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
12,100 breeding pairs |
B2 |
Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
3,900-7,500 breeding pairs |
B2 |
Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
100-5,000 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
8,500-15,000 breeding pairs |
B3 |
Brambling Fringilla montifringilla |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
24,000-40,000 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
900-5,000 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Parrot Crossbill Loxia pytyopsittacus |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
1,030-4,300 breeding pairs |
A3, B3 |
Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
2,000-31,000 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
100 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis |
LC |
breeding |
1995 |
130-700 breeding pairs |
A3 |
Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica |
VU |
breeding |
1995 |
2,900-5,500 breeding pairs |
A3 |
1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2000) may differ.
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