BSEP116B Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea - Helcom
BSEP116B Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea - Helcom
BSEP116B Biodiversity in the Baltic Sea - Helcom
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ANNEX V: STATUS OF BREEDING AND WINTERING<br />
BIRD SPECIES IN THE BALTIC SEA SUB-BASINS<br />
Breed<strong>in</strong>g birds<br />
Area name (1)<br />
Sandwich tern<br />
(bp 2007) (2)<br />
Cormorant<br />
(bp 2006/2007) (3)<br />
Barnacle<br />
goose (2007)<br />
Dunl<strong>in</strong><br />
(2007)<br />
Bothnian Bay and Bothnian <strong>Sea</strong> - 6 100 2 000 50–60<br />
Archipelago and Åland <strong>Sea</strong>s - 3 600 1–5<br />
Gulf of F<strong>in</strong>land - 6 800 1–5<br />
Nor<strong>the</strong>rn <strong>Baltic</strong> Proper and<br />
600–900 26 000 70 200–250<br />
Gulf of Riga<br />
Western Gotland Bas<strong>in</strong> 30 16 100 5,300 50–80<br />
Sou<strong>the</strong>rn <strong>Baltic</strong> Proper, eastern parts 400 29 000 - 0–5<br />
Sou<strong>the</strong>rn <strong>Baltic</strong> Proper, western parts 160 11 800 ?? 0<br />
Arkona <strong>Sea</strong> (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g German,<br />
700 11 000 ?? 7–8<br />
Swedish and Danish coastal waters)<br />
Western <strong>Baltic</strong> (Belt <strong>Sea</strong> and Sound) 1 130 30 000 20–25 40–50<br />
Kattegat 1 170 14 300 ?? 180–200<br />
1)<br />
The areas refer to HELCOM sub-bas<strong>in</strong>s shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 6.5.1. 2) bp = breed<strong>in</strong>g pairs. 3) Cormorant: <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>land breed<strong>in</strong>g<br />
pairs, but exclud<strong>in</strong>g Danish and German North <strong>Sea</strong>.<br />
W<strong>in</strong>ter<strong>in</strong>g birds<br />
Area name<br />
Long-tailed duck<br />
(1988–1993) (4) Razorbill<br />
(1988–1993)<br />
Eider<br />
(1988–1993)<br />
Steller’s<br />
eider<br />
(2000–2007)<br />
Bothnian Bay and Bothnian <strong>Sea</strong> - - - -<br />
Archipelago and Åland <strong>Sea</strong>s 0.14 % (6 000) - - 50–100<br />
Gulf of F<strong>in</strong>land 0.62 % (26 500) - - -<br />
Nor<strong>the</strong>rn <strong>Baltic</strong> proper and Gulf of 23.4 % (1 Million) 2 800 - 1 100–2 300<br />
Riga<br />
Western Gotland Bas<strong>in</strong> 35.1 % (1.5 Million) 11 000 600 50–100<br />
Sou<strong>the</strong>rn <strong>Baltic</strong> Proper, eastern parts 0.47 % (20 000) 2 000 150 100–900<br />
Sou<strong>the</strong>rn <strong>Baltic</strong> Proper, western parts 28.1 % (1.2 Million) 8 500 24 000 10<br />
Arkona <strong>Sea</strong> (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g German, 4.7 % (200 000) - 3 000 -<br />
Swedish and Danish coastal waters)<br />
Western <strong>Baltic</strong> (Belt <strong>Sea</strong> and Sound) 2.8 % (120 000) 1 200 580 000 -<br />
Kattegat 0.33 % (14 000) 132 000 450 000 -<br />
4)<br />
Proportion (%) per sub-bas<strong>in</strong> and number of <strong>in</strong>dividuals (<strong>in</strong> brackets).<br />
Note: For long-tailed duck, eider and razorbill, <strong>Baltic</strong>-wide data are only available from Dur<strong>in</strong>ck et al. (1994). Numbers have<br />
changed s<strong>in</strong>ce <strong>the</strong>n (e.g., decl<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g w<strong>in</strong>ter<strong>in</strong>g populations of eider and long-tailed ducks), but <strong>the</strong> importance of <strong>the</strong> different<br />
w<strong>in</strong>ter<strong>in</strong>g sites is still <strong>the</strong> same.<br />
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