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The 9 pages that link to Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas, each with the reason it gives.

• Bird migrationRelated: Many designated sites protect migration bottlenecks and essential stopover habitat.

• Bird conservationRelated: Site identification helps direct protection toward places vital to birds.

• BirdwatchingRelated: Bird observations help identify and monitor places with exceptional conservation value.

• Seabird colonyRelated: Large or threatened seabird colonies can help qualify sites for recognition.

• CharadriiformesRelated: Many coastal and wetland sites qualify because they support large shorebird aggregations.

• BirdLife InternationalBroader topic: BirdLife’s network identifies and promotes these sites as priorities for conservation.

• Stopover siteRelated: Stopover habitat can qualify through its importance to congregating or threatened birds.

• WaterbirdRelated: Waterbird concentrations can make a site a conservation priority.

• LocustellidaeRelated: Key sites can protect breeding or migratory habitat used by locustellids.