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The site was identified as important in 2000 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.

Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species'):

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s)	Population estimate at site	IBA criteria met
Chukar Alectoris chukar	LC	resident	1996	6,000 individuals	B2

The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2000).

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Turyanchay State Nature Reserve	State Nature Reserve	22,488	protected area overlaps with site	0
Turianchai goryhy	Zapovednik	12,600	protected area contains site	12,600

The Local Conservation Groups listed below are working to support conservation at this IBA.

Name	Year formed
info avialable at AOS	2002

For more information on BirdLife's work with Local Conservation Groups, please click here.

Habitat (IUCN level 1)	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest	Broadleaved deciduous woodland, Native coniferous woodland	-
Grassland	Steppes and dry calcareous grassland	-
Wetlands (inland)	Rivers and streams	-

For more information about the IUCN Habitat classification, please click here.

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
unknown	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Turianchai. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/turianchai-iba-azerbaijan on 02/10/2023.