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The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2008 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
Leach's Storm-petrel Hydrobates leucorhous	VU	breeding (1989)	70,000 pairs	A4ii
Cassin's Auklet Ptychoramphus aleuticus	NT	breeding (1989)	34,000 pairs	A4ii
A4iii Species group - seabirds	n/a	breeding (1989)	50,000-99,999 pairs	A4iii

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
1971	Solander Island Ecological Reserve	Ecological Reserve (Ia)	<1
1986	Brooks Peninsula Park [a.k.a. Muqqiwn Park]	A - Park (Ib)	3
1996	Lawn Point Park	A - Park (II)	<1
1996	Lac du Bois Grasslands Protected Area	Protected Area (II)	<1

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

Land use	% of IBA
not utilised	major (>10)
tourism/recreation	major (>10)

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Solander Island and Brooks Bay (Canada). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/solander-island-and-brooks-bay-iba-canada on 22/12/2024.