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Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 1994

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population estimate	IBA Criteria Triggered
Philby's Partridge Alectoris philbyi	LC	resident	1993	common	A2, A3, B3
Arabian Partridge Alectoris melanocephala	LC	resident	1993	present	A3
Montane Nightjar Caprimulgus poliocephalus	LC	resident	1993	5 breeding pairs	A3, B2
Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus	EN	resident	1993	4 breeding pairs	B2
Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus	LC	resident	1993	present	B2
Arabian Woodpecker Dendropicos dorae	NT	resident	1993	5-10 breeding pairs	A1, A3, B2
Brown Woodland-warbler Phylloscopus umbrovirens	LC	resident	1993	present	A3
Arabian Warbler Curruca leucomelaena	LC	resident	1993	present	B3
Tristram's Starling Onychognathus tristramii	LC	resident	1993	common	A3
Yemen Thrush Turdus menachensis	NT	resident	1993	present	A1, A2, A3, B2
Little Rock-thrush Monticola rufocinereus	LC	resident	1993	present	A3
Oenanthe lugens	NR	resident	1993	common	A3
Arabian Waxbill Estrilda rufibarba	LC	resident	1993	present	A2, A3, B3
Arabian Serin Crithagra rothschildi	LC	resident	1993	present	A3
Yemen Serin Crithagra menachensis	LC	non-breeding	1993	uncommon	A2, A3
Yemen Linnet Linaria yemenensis	LC	resident	1993	present	A2, A3, B3
Cinereous Bunting Emberiza cineracea	NT	passage	1993	present	A1, B2

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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Threats to the site (pressure)
Threat Level 1	Threat Level 2	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Biological resource use	hunting & collecting terrestrial animals - intentional use (species being assessed is the target)	happening now	small area/few individuals (<10%)	slow but significant deterioration	low

Conservation actions taken at site (response)
Conservation Designation	Management Planning	Conservation Action	Result
Little/none of site covered (<10%)	No management planning has taken place	Not assessed	negligible

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IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Forest		-
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)		-
Shrubland		-
Wetlands (inland)		-
Savanna		-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Wadi Turabah and Jabal Ibrahim. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 28/03/2023.