Lønnerup Fjord (Denmark) - BirdLife IBA factsheet

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Lønnerup Fjord

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
Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus	LC	winter	1994	361 individuals	B1i, C2
Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus	LC	passage	1994	316 individuals	A4i, B1i, C2

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 (2010) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2010	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
Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus	4,120	4,120	individuals	100	favourable
Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta	5	5	breeding pairs	100	favourable
Eurasian Dotterel Eudromias morinellus	54	54	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
1977	Vejlerne and Logstor Bredning	Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance	100
1983	Lønnerup Fjord	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	100
1998	Løgstør Bredning; Vejlerne og Bulbjerg	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	100

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land	45
Grassland	Humid grasslands	20
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		major (>10)
Marine Intertidal		-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
nature conservation and research	55
agriculture	45

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Lønnerup Fjord (Denmark). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lønnerup-fjord-iba-denmark on 23/11/2024.