Data Zone
Country/territory: Russia (European)
IBA criteria met: A4i, A4iii, B1i (2000)
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Area: 7,470 hectares (74.70 km2)
Site description (2001 baseline)
Shallow waters along the southern shore of Finsky Bay on the Baltic sea.
Key biodiversity
This is one of the most important places on Belomoro-Baltiysky flyway with up to 25,000 swans, 100,000 ducks (A.plathyrhynchos, A.penelope, A.acuta, A.crecca, A.querquedula, A.clypeata, A.fuligula, B.clangula, M.serrator, M.merganser) and 200,000 gulls (L.argentatus, L.canus, L.ridibundus) stopping over mainly on spring migration.
Acknowledgements
The map polygon is provided courtesy of the Spatial Database on Important Bird Areas of Russia 2014 (© Russian Bird Conservation Union, © Transparent World).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Swans area (southern shore of Finski Bay) (Russia (European)). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/swans-area-(southern-shore-of-finski-bay)-iba-russia-(european) on 23/12/2024.