Current view: Data table and detailed info
The site was identified as important in 2014 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:
1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2014) may differ.
Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2014. The most recent assessment (2014) is shown below.
IBA conservation assessment |
Year of assessment |
State |
Pressure |
Response |
2014 |
not assessed |
medium |
not assessed |
Whole site assessed? |
State assessed by |
Accuracy of information |
|
no |
unset |
- |
|
Year |
Protected Area |
Designation |
% overlap with IBA |
1958 |
Motunau Island
|
Nature Reserve |
25 |
Habitat1 |
Habitat detail |
% of IBA |
Marine Coastal/Supratidal |
|
major (>10) |
Marine Intertidal |
|
major (>10) |
Forest |
|
- |
Shrubland |
|
- |
1.
IUCN Habitat classification.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Motunau (New Zealand). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/motunau-iba-new-zealand on 27/11/2024.