BirdLife Data Zone

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Ballobar-Candasnos

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IBA Criteria

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
Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis	LC	resident	2008	80-207 breeding pairs	B2, C2, C6
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse Pterocles alchata	LC	resident	2008	16-642 breeding pairs	B2, C2, C6
Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax	NT	resident	2006	41-194 individuals	A1, C1
European Roller Coracias garrulus	LC	breeding	2009	min 14 breeding pairs	A1, C1
Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni	LC	breeding	2009	123 breeding pairs	B2, C2, 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)
Sierras de Alcubierre y Sigena	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	47,050	protected area overlaps with site	0
Sierra de Alcubierre	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	42,108	protected area is adjacent to site	0
Ríos Cinca y Alcanadre	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	6,208	protected area overlaps with site	0
El Basal; Las Menorcas y Llanos de Cardiel	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	6,987	protected area contained by site	6,987
Basal de Ballobar y Balsalet de Don Juan	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	229	protected area contained by site	229

Habitats

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Grassland	Steppes and dry calcareous grassland	-
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land, Ruderal land	-

For further information about the habitat classification please click here.

Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-
hunting	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2022) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Ballobar-Candasnos. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 18/08/2022.