AQ153
Île des Manchots / Empereur Island


IBA Justification

The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2015 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
A4iii Species group - seabirds n/a breeding (2011) 35,000 pairs A4iii


Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Île des Manchots / Empereur Island (Antarctica). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/île-des-manchots--empereur-island-iba-antarctica on 26/12/2024.