Venø and Venø Sund (Denmark) - BirdLife IBA factsheet

DK040

Venø and Venø Sund

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important in 2021 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
Brent Goose Branta bernicla	LC	non-breeding	2013-2020	42-900 individuals	B3a, C3

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2021) may differ.

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2021. The most recent assessment (2010) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2010	very unfavourable	not assessed	not assessed
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
Brent Goose Branta bernicla	3,686	446	individuals	13	very unfavourable
Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea	52	17	breeding pairs	33	very unfavourable

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Not assessed	Not assessed	Not assessed	not assessed

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1983	Venø; Venø Sund	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	100
1998	Venø; Venø Sund	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	100

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest		5
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		major (>10)
Marine Intertidal		major (>10)
Marine Neritic		major (>10)

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
unknown	-

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Venø and Venø Sund (Denmark). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/venø-and-venø-sund-iba-denmark on 23/11/2024.