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Tsukuejima islets - Marine


IBA Justification

The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2016 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
Japanese Murrelet Synthliboramphus wumizusume VU resident (1979) min 25 pairs A1

Habitats

Habitat % of IBA Habitat detail
Marine Neritic 100


Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Tsukuejima islets - Marine (Japan). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/tsukuejima-islets--marine-iba-japan on 23/12/2024.