Current view: Text account
Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
An extensive stretch of estuarine coast with a variety of habitats including bays, offshore islands, rock and cliff areas, beaches, intertidal flats, brackish lakes, marshes and saltmarshes. The area extends from Akrar at Mýrar to Glámsflói and Sauratjörn on Snæfellsnes. Minor land-uses include eider husbandry (
Somateria mollissima) (`Other' land-use) and recreation.
Other notable species are breeding
Phalacrocorax carbo and
Sterna paradisaea (hundreds of pairs each), staging
Anser albifrons (a few hundred),
Branta bernicla,
Calidris alpina and
Tringa totanus, and wintering
Haematopus ostralegus.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
The area is on the list of sites of conservation interest in the Nature Conservation Register.
National None
International None
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Longufjorur (Iceland). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/longufjorur-iba-iceland on 23/11/2024.
