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Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2006

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
Altai Snowcock Tetraogallus altaicus	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Hazel Grouse Bonasa bonasia	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Pintail Snipe Gallinago stenura	LC	breeding	2002	250-500 breeding pairs	A4i
Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala	LC	breeding	2000	50-100 breeding pairs	A3
Ural Owl Strix uralensis	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Yellow-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax graculus	LC	breeding	2000	15-30 breeding pairs	A3
Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Siberian Tit Poecile cinctus	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria	LC	breeding	2000	1-3 breeding pairs	A3
White-winged Redstart Phoenicurus erythrogastrus	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Altai Accentor Prunella himalayana	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Brown Accentor Prunella fulvescens	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Water Pipit Anthus spinoletta	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Great Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilla	LC	breeding	2000	present	A3
Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator	LC	breeding	2000	30-50 breeding pairs	A3
Plain Mountain-finch Leucosticte nemoricola	LC	breeding	2000	30-50 breeding pairs	A3
Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica	VU	breeding	2000	present	A3

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.

For more information about the IBA assessment process and criteria please click here

Protected Area	Designation	Area (ha)	Relationship with IBA	Overlap with IBA (ha)
Golden Mountains of Altai	World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)	1,611,457	protected area contains site	125,900
Altaisky	Zapovednik	881,238	protected area overlaps with site	125,900
Altaisky	UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve	3,532,234	protected area overlaps with site	0

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest	Native coniferous woodland, Wooded steppe	-
Grassland	Steppes and dry calcareous grassland, Alpine, subalpine and boreal grassland, Tundra	-
Wetlands (inland)	Standing freshwater, Rivers and streams	-
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)		-

For further information about the habitat classification please click here.

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
nature conservation and research	-

For further information about the land use classification please click here.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2022) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Kurkure mountain. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 25/01/2022.