Sounds around Wyre (United Kingdom) - BirdLife IBA factsheet

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Sounds around Wyre

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important in 2007 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 Loon Gavia immer	LC	winter	2001-2002	115 individuals	A4i, B1i, C2, C6

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2007) may differ.

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2007. The most recent assessment (2007) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2007	favourable	low	negligible
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	population	good

State (condition of the trigger species' populations)
Species	Reference	Actual	Units	% remaining	Result
Common Loon Gavia immer	100	115	individuals	100	favourable

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Agricultural expansion and intensification	happening now	small area/few individuals (<10%)	no or imperceptible deterioration	low

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Little/none of site covered (<10%)	Unknown	Not assessed	negligible

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1962	Eynhallow	Site of Special Scientific Interest (UK)	<1
1996	Onziebust	Nature Reserve	<1
1997	Rousay	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	4
2011	Rousay	Marine Protected Area (OSPAR)	5
2014	Wyre and Rousay Sounds	Marine Protected Area (OSPAR)	29
2014	Wyre and Rousay Sounds	Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area	29

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Marine Neritic		major (>10)
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-
Marine Intertidal		-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
fisheries/aquaculture	-
other	-

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Sounds around Wyre (United Kingdom). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/sounds-around-wyre-iba-united-kingdom on 24/11/2024.