North Wales Coast (United Kingdom) IBA | Details

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North Wales Coast

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2007 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 List	Season (year/s of estimate)	Size	IBA criteria
Common Scoter Melanitta nigra	LC	winter (1995)	50,000 birds	A4i, B1i, C3

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2007. The most recent assessment (2007) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2007	not assessed	not assessed	very low
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	unset	good

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Designation	Planning	Action	Result
Little/none of area covered (<10%)	Unknown	Very little or no conservation action taking place	very low

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
1979	Traeth Pensarn	Site of Special Scientific Interest (UK) (IV)	<1
2011	Liverpool Bay / Bae Lerpwl	Marine Protected Area (OSPAR) (UA)	94

Habitats

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Marine Neritic	major (>10)
Marine Coastal/Supratidal	minor (<10)
Marine Intertidal	minor (<10)

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
tourism/recreation	-
urban/industrial/transport	-

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: North Wales Coast (United Kingdom). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/north-wales-coast-iba-united-kingdom on 28/12/2024.