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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:

Species	Red List1	Season	Year(s)	Size	IBA criteria
Common Eider Somateria mollissima	NT	breeding	1994-2009	1,900 mature individuals	A3, B1i, B3
Sabine's Gull Xema sabini	LC	breeding	2007-2009	10-13 mature individuals	A3
Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea	NT	breeding	1990-2010	100-1,000 breeding pairs	A1, A3, A4i, B1i, B2
Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla	VU	breeding	1978-2010	63,000 mature individuals	B1i
Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea	LC	breeding	1990-2010	7,030 mature individuals	A3
Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle	LC	breeding	1979-2010	3,500 mature individuals	A4ii, B1ii, B2
Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia	LC	breeding	2007-2009	140,000 mature individuals	A4ii, B1ii, B2
A4iii Species group - seabirds	n/a	breeding	1978-2010	215,000 mature individuals	A4iii

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2014) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1973	Nordaust-Svalbard naturreservat	Naturreservater (Svalbard)	97
1976	North-east Svalbard Nature Reserve	UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve	27
2009	Svalbard East	Marine Protected Area (OSPAR)	65

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Grassland	Tundra	-
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-
Marine Neritic		-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
nature conservation and research	100

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Northeast Svalbard Nature Reserve (Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/northeast-svalbard-nature-reserve-iba-svalbard-and-jan-mayen-islands-(to-norway) on 23/11/2024.