Pingüinera del Seno Otway (Chile) IBA | Details

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Pingüinera del Seno Otway

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2010 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
Magellanic Penguin Spheniscus magellanicus	LC	breeding (2005)	10,833 birds	A1
Short-billed Miner Geositta antarctica	LC	unknown (2008)	present	A2

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2010. The most recent assessment (2015) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2015	good	not assessed	low
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	habitat	medium

State (condition of the trigger species' habitats)
Habitat	Quantity (% remaining)	Quality (% carrying capacity)	Result
Marine Coastal/Supratidal	-	good (>90%)	good

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Designation	Planning	Action	Result
Little/none of area covered (<10%)	No management plan exists, but the management planning process has begun	Some limited conservation initiatives are in place	low

Habitats

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Marine Coastal/Supratidal	-

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Pingüinera del Seno Otway (Chile). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/pingüinera-del-seno-otway-iba-chile on 23/12/2024.