BirdLife Data Zone

OM015

Ras al Hadd

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important in 1994 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.

Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species'):

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s)	Population estimate at site	IBA criteria met
Persian Shearwater Puffinus persicus	LC	non-breeding	1993	1,000 individuals	B1ii, B2
Haematopus ostralegus	NR	winter	1988-1992	144-471 individuals	B1i
Lesser Sandplover Charadrius mongolus	LC	winter	1988-1992	186-335 individuals	B1i
Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus	LC	passage	1993	10,000 individuals	B1i
Slender-billed Gull Larus genei	LC	winter	1989-1992	1,459-4,700 individuals	A4i, B1i
Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus	LC	winter	1988-1992	792-3,500 individuals	A4i, B1i
Pallas's Gull Larus ichthyaetus	LC	winter	1988-1992	457-1,015 individuals	A4i, B1i
Sooty Gull Larus hemprichii	LC	winter	1988-1992	854-2,686 individuals	A4i, B1i
Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus	LC	winter	1989-1992	1,849-2,679 individuals	A4i, B1i
Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans	LC	winter	1989-1992	3,697-5,359 individuals	B1i
Saunders's Tern Sternula saundersi	LC	passage	1993	400 individuals	A4i, B1i, B3
Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis	LC	winter	1988-1992	939-2,403 individuals	A4i, B1i
Greater Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii	LC	winter	1988-1992	468-1,200 individuals	B1i

The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (1994).

IBA Protection

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Ra's Al Hadd	Nature Reserve	12,000	protected area contains site	0

Habitats

Habitat (IUCN level 1)	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Marine Neritic		-
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		-

For more information about the IUCN Habitat classification, please click here.

Land use

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
unknown	-

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Ras al Hadd. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/ras-al-hadd-iba-oman on 22/09/2023.