The site was identified as important in 2021 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.
Species |
Red List Category |
Season |
Year(s) |
Population estimate at site |
IBA criteria met |
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus |
NT |
breeding |
2018 |
144 individuals |
B1a |
Bearded Wood-partridge Dendrortyx barbatus |
VU |
resident |
2018 |
35 individuals |
A1 |
Black Swift Cypseloides niger |
VU |
- |
2018 |
239 individuals |
A1 |
Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica |
VU |
passage |
2018 |
350 individuals |
A1 |
Mexican Sheartail Doricha eliza |
NT |
resident |
2020 |
51 individuals |
B1a |
Wood Stork Mycteria americana |
LC |
winter |
2017 |
15,004 individuals |
A4, B3a |
White Ibis Eudocimus albus |
LC |
passage |
2019 |
2,540 individuals |
A4, B3a |
American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos |
LC |
winter |
2016 |
11,635 individuals |
A4, B3a |
Anhinga Anhinga anhinga |
LC |
winter |
2015 |
5,171 individuals |
B3a |
Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla |
NT |
winter |
2017 |
76 individuals |
B1a |
Franklin's Gull Larus pipixcan |
LC |
winter |
2017 |
50,600 individuals |
A4, B3a |
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura |
LC |
winter |
2012 |
1,225,131 individuals |
A4, B3a |
Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus |
LC |
winter |
2013 |
1,372,070 individuals |
A4, B3a |
Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni |
LC |
winter |
2012 |
372,582 individuals |
A4, B3a |
Yellow-headed Amazon Amazona oratrix |
EN |
resident |
2020 |
34 individuals |
A1 |
Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi |
NT |
winter |
2020 |
98 individuals |
B1a |
A4iv Species group - soaring birds/cranes |
n/a |
winter |
2012-2019 |
3,146,909 individuals |
B3c |
A4iii Species group - waterbirds |
n/a |
winter |
2017 |
65,604 individuals |
B3b |
The current IUCN Red List category (shown above) may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2021).
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Protected area (PA) |
PA designation |
PA area (ha) |
Relationship of PA with IBA |
Overlap of PA with IBA (ha) |
Tembladeras-Laguna Olmeca
|
Reserva Ecológica |
344 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
Sistema de Lagunas Interdunarias de la Ciudad de Veracruz
|
Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance |
141 |
protected area contained by site |
141 |
Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano
|
UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve |
65,516 |
protected area is adjacent to site |
0 |
Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano
|
Parque Nacional |
65,115 |
protected area is adjacent to site |
67 |
Selva Nueva y El Jaguar
|
Área Destinada Voluntariamente a la Conservación |
6 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
San Juan del Monte
|
Área Verde Reserva para la Educación Ecológica |
606 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
Punta Canales o Isla del Amor
|
Zona Sujeta Conservacion Ecologica y de Valor Esce |
7 |
protected area overlaps with site |
0 |
Predio Barragán
|
Área Verde Reserva para la Recreacción y la Educación Ecológica |
2 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
Parque Nacional Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano
|
Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance |
52,238 |
protected area is adjacent to site |
0 |
Pancho Poza
|
Reserva Ecológica |
58 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
Pacho Nuevo
|
Reserva Ecológica |
3 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
Molino de San Roque
|
Mejoramiento y Conservación del Ambiente y Estable |
18 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
La Martinica
|
Reserva Ecológica |
50 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
La Mancha y El Llano
|
Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance |
1,414 |
protected area contained by site |
1,414 |
Francisco Javier Clavijero
|
Parque |
95 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
El Tejar Garnica
|
Zona de Prot Ecol destinada al Mej y Cons del Amb |
93 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
Cofre de Perote o Nauhcampatépetl
|
Parque Nacional |
11,531 |
protected area contained by site |
11,479 |
Cerro Macuiltepetl
|
Área Verde Reserva para la Recreacción y la Educación Ecológica |
29 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
Cerro La Galaxia
|
Área de Conservación Ecológica |
35 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
Cerro de las Culebras
|
Reserva Ecológica |
35 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
Cascadas de Texolo y su entorno
|
Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance |
500 |
protected area contained by site |
500 |
Arroyo Moreno
|
Reserva Ecológica |
250 |
protected area contained by site |
0 |
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Tenencia de la tierra: Ejidal, privada y federal.