BirdLife Data Zone

ES340

Cuchillete de Buenavista-gully of La Torre-Los Alares

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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	1994	40 breeding pairs	B2, C6
Plain Swift Apus unicolor	LC	resident	2010	10-20 breeding pairs	A2
African Houbara Chlamydotis undulata	VU	resident	2006	51-66 individuals	A1, B2, C1, C2, C6
Eurasian Thick-knee Burhinus oedicnemus	LC	resident	1988	10 breeding pairs	B2, C6
Cream-coloured Courser Cursorius cursor	LC	resident	2006	250-275 individuals	A4i, B1i, B2, C2, C6
Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus	EN	resident	2008	4 breeding pairs	A1, C1, C6
Fuerteventura Stonechat Saxicola dacotiae	NT	resident	2006	120-200 breeding pairs	A1, B2, C1, C2, C6
Berthelot's Pipit Anthus berthelotii	LC	resident	2010	50-100 breeding pairs	A2
Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githagineus	LC	resident	2010	50-100 breeding pairs	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)
Llanos y cuchillos de Antigua	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	9,913	protected area overlaps with site	5,730
Espacio marino del oriente y sur de Lanzarote-Fuerteventura	Site of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)	1,432,842	protected area is adjacent to site	0

Habitats

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Shrubland		-
Grassland	Steppes and dry calcareous grassland	-
Desert	Semidesert	-
Wetlands (inland)	Rivers and streams	-
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)	Inland cliffs	-
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land, Ruderal land	-

For further information about the habitat classification please click here.

Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-
fisheries/aquaculture	-
hunting	-
tourism/recreation	-

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

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2022) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Cuchillete de Buenavista-gully of La Torre-Los Alares. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 10/08/2022.