The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2014 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.
| Species |
Red List |
Season (year/s of estimate) |
Size |
IBA criteria |
| Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis |
VU |
passage (2010) |
20,000–25,000 birds |
A1, B1i |
| Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis |
VU |
breeding (2012) |
16 pairs |
A1, A3 |
| Common Eider Somateria mollissima |
NT |
winter (2009) |
4,150 birds |
B1i, B3 |
| Common Eider Somateria mollissima |
NT |
breeding (2012) |
10–20 pairs |
A3 |
| Steller's Eider Polysticta stelleri |
VU |
winter (2012) |
566 birds |
A1, B1i, B2 |
| Common Scoter Melanitta nigra |
LC |
breeding (2004–2013) |
5–10 pairs |
A3 |
| Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii |
NT |
passage (2010) |
340 birds |
A1, A4i, B1i |
| Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres |
NT |
breeding (2012) |
30–50 pairs |
A3 |
| Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii |
LC |
breeding (2004–2013) |
max 1 pairs |
A3 |
| Little Stint Calidris minuta |
LC |
breeding (2004–2013) |
10–50 pairs |
A3 |
| Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus |
LC |
breeding (2004–2013) |
30–50 nests |
A3 |
| Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla |
VU |
passage (2009–2010) |
180,000–200,000 birds |
A4i, B1i |
| Arctic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus |
LC |
breeding (2010–2012) |
60–350 pairs |
A3, B1ii |
| Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus |
LC |
passage (2012) |
1,790 birds |
B1ii |
| Razorbill Alca torda |
LC |
passage (2010) |
5,500 birds |
B1ii |
| Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus |
LC |
breeding (2012) |
40 pairs |
A3 |
| Lapland Longspur Calcarius lapponicus |
LC |
breeding (2004–2013) |
20–30 pairs |
A3 |
| Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis |
LC |
breeding (2004–2013) |
10–50 pairs |
A3 |
| A4iii Species group - seabirds |
n/a |
passage (2009–2010) |
205,500–230,500 birds |
A4iii |
| A4iii Species group - waterbirds |
n/a |
passage (2010) |
20,000–25,000 birds |
A4iii |
