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The site was identified as important in 2007 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
Purple-throated Carib Eulampis jugularis	LC	resident	2007	unknown	A2
Green-throated Carib Eulampis holosericeus	LC	resident	2007	unknown	A2
Antillean Crested Hummingbird Orthorhyncus cristatus	LC	resident	2007	unknown	A2
Least Tern Sternula antillarum	LC	breeding	2008	100 breeding pairs	B4i
Caribbean Elaenia Elaenia martinica	LC	resident	2007	unknown	A2
Scaly-breasted Thrasher Allenia fusca	LC	resident	2007	unknown	A2
Pearly-eyed Thrasher Margarops fuscatus	LC	resident	2007	unknown	A2

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2007) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1991	ILES DE LA PETITE TERRE	Terrain acquis par le Conservatoire du Littoral	6
1994	Ilets de Petite Terre	Arrêté de protection de biotope	12
1998	Iles de la Petite Terre	Réserve naturelle nationale	71
1998	Etangs des Salines	Specially Protected Area (Cartagena Convention)	10
1998	îles de la Petite-Terre	Nature Reserve	100
2010	Agoa	Specially Protected Area (Cartagena Convention)	89
2012	Petite Terre	Specially Protected Area (Cartagena Convention)	71

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		major (>10)
Forest	Mangrove	minor (<10)

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
nature conservation and research	major (>10)
tourism/recreation	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: îlets de la Petite-Terre (Guadeloupe (to France)). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/îlets-de-la-petite-terre-iba-guadeloupe-(to-france) on 23/11/2024.