ÃŽle Howe is one of the islands of the
Kerguelen archipelago, situated to the north of
ÃŽle Foch, just after ÃŽle MacMurdo. It is about 8 km in length. Apart from
rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas). They are familiar throughout the world as a small herbivore, a prey animal, a domesticated ...
s, it is free of
introduced animals.
Important Bird Area
The island, along with the neighbouring, and relatively large, islands of
ÃŽle Foch and
ÃŽle Saint-Lanne Gramont, as well as the smaller ÃŽle MacMurdo, ÃŽle Briand, ÃŽles Dayman and ÃŽlots Hallet, has been identified by
BirdLife International
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as an
Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
(IBA) because of its value as a breeding site, especially for
seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adaptation, adapted to life within the marine ecosystem, marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent ...
s, with at least 29 species nesting in the IBA.
[BirdLife International. (2012). Important Bird Areas factsheet: ÃŽle Foch, ÃŽle Sainte Lanne Gramont and ÃŽle Howe. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 2012-01-21.]
References
Geoportail - Carte des îles KerguelenTableau général de la France outre-mer - Maison de la Géographie
Howe
Important Bird Areas of Kerguelen
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