Kempton has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by Birdlife


IBAs are key sites for conservation – small enough to be conserved in their entirety and often already part of a protected-area network. They do one (or more) of three things:
  • Hold significant numbers of one or more globally threatened species
  • Are one of a set of sites that together hold a suite of restricted-range species or biome-restricted species
  • Have exceptionally large numbers of migratory or congregatory species

BirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. BirdLife Partners operate in over one hundred countries and territories worldwide.


Birds are beautiful, inspirational and international. Birds are excellent flagships and vital environmental indicators.

By focusing on birds, and the sites and habitats on which they depend, the BirdLife Partnership is working to improve the quality of life for birds, for other wildlife (biodiversity), and for people.

BirdLife's aims are to:

• prevent the extinction of any bird species • maintain and where possible improve the conservation status of all bird species • conserve and where appropriate improve and enlarge sites and habitats important for birds • help, through birds, to conserve biodiversity and to improve the quality of people's lives • integrate bird conservation into sustaining people's livelihoods.