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The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2008 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
Leach's Storm-petrel Hydrobates leucorhous	VU	breeding (1994)	780,000 pairs	A4ii
Arctic Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus	LC	breeding (1994)	6,995 pairs	A4i
Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica	VU	breeding (1994)	216,000 pairs	A4ii
Common Murre Uria aalge	LC	breeding (1985)	77,500 pairs	A4ii
A4iii Species group - seabirds	n/a	breeding (-)	500,000-999,999 pairs	A4iii

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
1964	Witless Bay Ecological Reserve	Ecological Reserve (II)	49

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Marine Neritic	major (>10)
Forest	-	Boreal coniferous
Grassland	-	Edaphic
Marine Coastal/Supratidal	-
Marine Intertidal	-

Land use	% of IBA
nature conservation and research	-
tourism/recreation	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Witless Bay Islands (Canada). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/witless-bay-islands-iba-canada on 27/12/2024.