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Year of most recent IBA criteria assessment: 2000

Populations of IBA trigger species

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s) of estimate	Population at site	IBA criteria triggered
Sand Partridge Ammoperdix heyi	LC	resident	1993	common	A3
Desert Tawny Owl Strix hadorami	LC	resident	1993	present	A3, B3
Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus	NT	winter	1985	1 individuals	B2
Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus	EN	passage	1990-1991	3 individuals	B2
Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus	LC	breeding	1993	1-5 breeding pairs	B2
Levant Sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes	LC	passage	1992	8,000 individuals	B2
Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni	LC	breeding	1993	10 breeding pairs	A1, B2
Sooty Falcon Falco concolor	VU	breeding	1990	rare	A3, B2
Arabian Babbler Argya squamiceps	LC	resident	1993	present	A3, B3
Tristram's Starling Onychognathus tristramii	LC	resident	1993	present	B3
Hooded Wheatear Oenanthe monacha	LC	resident	1993	present	A3, B3
Blackstart Oenanthe melanura	LC	resident	1993	present	A3
Dead Sea Sparrow Passer moabiticus	LC	passage	1993	present	B3
Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githagineus	LC	resident	1993	present	A3
Striolated Bunting Emberiza striolata	LC	resident	1993	present	A3
A4iv Species group - soaring birds/cranes	n/a	passage	1993	8,200 individuals	B1iv

Note: The current IUCN Red List category may differ from the category that was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment.

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Threats to the site (pressure)
Threat level 1	Threat level 2	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Human intrusions and disturbance	work and other activities	happening now	small area/few individuals (<10%)	no or imperceptible deterioration	low

Conservation actions taken at the site (response)
Protected-area designation	Management planning	Other conservation action	Result
Whole area of site (>90%) covered by appropriate conservation designation	A comprehensive and appropriate management plan exists that aims to maintain or improve the populations of qualifying bird species	Not assessed	medium

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Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Mujib Nature Reserve	محمية طبيعية	21,241	protected area contained by site	20,500
Mujib Biosphere Reserve	UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve	43,915	protected area overlaps with site	12,818

IUCN Habitat	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Artificial/Terrestrial		-
Desert		-
Grassland		-
Wetlands (inland)		-
Shrubland		-
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)		-

For further information about the IUCN habitat classification, please click here.

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-
military	-
nature conservation and research	-
tourism/recreation	-
hunting	-
rangeland/pastureland	-
fisheries/aquaculture	-

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

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Wadi Mujib. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/8197 on 10/06/2023.