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The site was identified as important in 2000 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
Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni	NT	breeding	1997	46 breeding pairs	A1, A4i, B1i

The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2000).

Habitat (IUCN level 1)	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Grassland	Humid grasslands, Steppes and dry calcareous grassland	-

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

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
hunting	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Varfolomeyevskiye saltmarshes. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/varfolomeyevskiye-saltmarshes-iba-russia-(european) on 25/09/2023.