Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP): Status of common breeding and migratory birds in the Maldives 2025

Abstract

In the Republic of the Maldives, comprising 26 atolls with about 1,200 islands, a variety of breeding, migratory, and overwintering birds from diverse species guilds occur. The Ministry of Tourism and Environment placed 207 bird species under national protection in 2021 (Protected Species Regulation (2021R-25).

For this study, 29 of the 207 species were short-listed based on conservation-priority criteria (those being breeding species and regular non-breeding visitors). This report provides an indication of archipelago-wide breeding and non-breeding distributions for these 29 species on an atoll-level, based on 37 interviews with knowledgeable and expert local community members.

Accompanying the report is an Excel workbook containing appendices 1 to 5. Please note that workbook was updated and replaced (with version 1.1) on 26.03.25, in order to address some minor errors regarding local spelling of bird species).

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OCPP: Status of common breeding and migratory birds in the Maldives PDF
6.3 MB ocpp-maldives-status-of-common-breeding-and-migratory-birds.pdf
Appendices 1 to 5: Status of common breeding and migratory birds in the Maldives XLSX
47.3 KB ocpp-maldives-status-of-common-breeding-and-migratory-birds-appendices-version-1-1.xlsx

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Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2025·03·19

Citation
Steibl, S., Zareer, I.H., Khaleel, H., Fox, M., Zareer, I.H., Nidham, H. & Russell, J.C. 2025. Status of common breeding and migratory birds in the Maldives. OCPP Project Report for The Maldives Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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The report is a deliverable of the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP), a UK-led programme funded with UK International Development from the UK Government

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Communications, JNCC publisher
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Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2025·03·26

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Communications, JNCC
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