Data Zone
Country/territory: Greenland (to Denmark)
IBA criteria met: A4i, B1i, B2 (2000)
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Area: 90,000 ha
Site description (2000 baseline)
A series of converging, wide glacial valleys in otherwise mountainous terrain, containing fjords, seasonal stream channels and water-bodies, and tundra vegetation overlying thick glacial deposits. Moskusoksefjord and Loch Fyne are long, narrow sea inlets that continue inland as valleys. The site includes Ternholme˜a flat, low-lying island located 2.5 km offshore from Myggbukta. This area includes two sites that were treated as separate IBAs in the previous international IBA inventory (Grimmett and Jones 1989): `Myggbukta' (former site GL001) and `Stordal-Moskusoksefjord-Badlanddal-Loch Fyne' (former site GL004).
Key biodiversity
The site is important for breeding waders, ducks and Stercorarius longicaudus, and moulting geese.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Stordal-Moskusoksefjord-Badlanddal-Loch Fyne-Myggbukta (Greenland (to Denmark)). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/stordal-moskusoksefjord-badlanddal-loch-fyne-myggbukta-iba-greenland-(to-denmark) on 23/11/2024.