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The site was identified as important in 2004 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
Charadrius mongolus	NR	winter	2004	present	A4i
Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea	CR	winter	2004	present	A1
Spotted Greenshank Tringa guttifer	EN	winter	2004	present	A1

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2004) may differ.

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest	Mangrove forest (tropical)	major (>10)
Marine Intertidal		major (>10)
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		minor (<10)
Marine Neritic		minor (<10)

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Patenga Beach (Bangladesh). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/patenga-beach-iba-bangladesh on 25/11/2024.