BirdLife Data Zone

GR145

Mount Kerkis, Samos

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IBA Criteria

Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2000

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
Rüppell's Warbler Curruca ruppeli	LC	breeding	1995	20-40 breeding pairs	B3, C6

Note: This table presents the IBA criteria triggered and the species that triggered then at the time of assessment, the current IUCN Red List category may vary from that which was in place at that time.

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IBA Protection

Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Samos: Oros Kerkis	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	9,118	protected area contains site	0
Samos: Oros Kerketefs - Mikro Kai Megalo Seitani - Dasos Kastanias Kai Lekkas; Akr. Katavasis - Limenas	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	6,721	protected area overlaps with site	5,564
Oros Kerkis stin Samo	Periochi prostasias tis fysis	4,071	protected area overlaps with site	0
Mikro kai Megalo Seitani Samou (Periochi A2)	Periochi apolytis prostasias tis fysis	670	protected area contained by site	0
Mikro kai Megalo Seitani Samou (Periochi A1-pyrinas)	Periochi apolytis prostasias tis fysis	253	protected area contained by site	0

Habitats

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest	Native coniferous woodland	-
Shrubland	Sclerophyllous scrub, garrigue and maquis	-
Grassland	Alpine, subalpine and boreal grassland	-
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land	-
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)	Scree & boulders, Inland cliffs	-

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Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-
forestry	-
not utilised	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2022) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Mount Kerkis, Samos. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 09/12/2022.