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Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2011

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala	EN	resident	2009	min 14 breeding pairs	A1, B1i, B2, C1, C2
Black Stork Ciconia nigra	LC	passage	1997	20 individuals	B1i, C2
Common Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus	LC	breeding	1996	6 breeding pairs	C6
Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii	VU	passage	1996	227-412 individuals	A1, C1

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)
Desembocadura del Guadalhorce	Paraje Natural	67	protected area overlaps with site	67

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest	Alluvial and very wet forest	-
Shrubland	Scrub	-
Grassland	Humid grasslands, Mesophile grasslands	-
Wetlands (inland)	Standing freshwater, Standing brackish and salt water, Rivers and streams, Water fringe vegetation	-
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land, Forestry plantations	-
Coastline	Sand dunes & beaches, Lagoons	-
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-

For further information about the habitat classification please click here.

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-

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

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Mouth of the river Guadalhorce. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 23/03/2023.