Lille Middelgrund (Denmark) - BirdLife IBA factsheet

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Lille Middelgrund

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important 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 List¹	Season	Year(s)	Size	IBA criteria
Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla	VU	winter	1987-1993	99,000 individuals	A4i, B1i, C3
Razorbill Alca torda	LC	winter	1987-1993	93,500 individuals	A4ii, B1ii, C3
Common Murre Uria aalge	LC	winter	1987-1993	93,000 individuals	A4ii, B1ii, C3

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2000) may differ.

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2000. The most recent assessment (2009) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2009	favourable	not assessed	not assessed
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	population	good

State (condition of the trigger species' populations)
Species	Reference	Actual	Units	% remaining	Result
Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla	99,000	99,000	individuals	100	favourable
Razorbill Alca torda	93,500	93,500	individuals	100	favourable
Common Murre Uria aalge	93,000	93,000	individuals	100	favourable

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Not assessed	Not assessed	Not assessed	not assessed

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1997	Kims Top og den Kinesiske Mur	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	43
2007	Kims Top og den Kinesiske Mur	Marine Protected Area (OSPAR)	43
2009	Kims Top and and the Chinese wall	Baltic Sea Protected Area (HELCOM)	43

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Marine Neritic		100

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

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

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Lille Middelgrund (Denmark). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lille-middelgrund-iba-denmark on 23/11/2024.