Aktau cliff faces (Kazakhstan) - BirdLife IBA factsheet

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Aktau cliff faces

Current view: Data table and detailed info

IBA Justification

The site was identified as important in 2004 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.

Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species') at the site:

Species	Red List¹	Season	Year(s)	Size	IBA criteria
Egyptian Vulture Neophron percnopterus	EN	breeding	2004	10 breeding pairs	A1
Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni	LC	breeding	2004	120 breeding pairs	A1
Saker Falcon Falco cherrug	EN	breeding	2004	138 breeding pairs	A1, A4ii

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2004) may differ.

IBA Conservation

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2004. The most recent assessment (2013) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2013	favourable	high	negligible
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	habitat	poor

State (condition of the trigger species' habitats)
Habitat	Quantity (% remaining)	Quality (% carrying capacity)	Result
Desert	good (> 90%)	good (> 90%)	favourable
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)	good (> 90%)	good (> 90%)	favourable

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Transportation and service corridors	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high
Human intrusions and disturbance	happening now	some of area/population (10-49%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	negligible

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1978	Northen Part of Caspian Sea	State Reservation	6
1982	Aktay-Buzachinskiy	Zakaznik	26

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Desert	Desert & semi-desert - stony, Desert & semi-desert - salty, Desert & semi-desert - clay	55
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)	Inland cliffs	35
Wetlands (inland)	Standing brackish & salt water	10

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
nature conservation and research	15
rangeland/pastureland	minor (<10)
energy production and mining	minor (<10)

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Aktau cliff faces (Kazakhstan). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/aktau-cliff-faces-iba-kazakhstan on 23/11/2024.