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The site was identified as important in 2001 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
Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Heuglin's Bustard Neotis heuglinii	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Eastern Chanting-goshawk Melierax poliopterus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Rosy-patched Bushshrike Rhodophoneus cruentus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Somali Fiscal Lanius somalicus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Rüppell's Weaver Ploceus galbula	LC	resident	1999	present	A3

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2001) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
2013	Assamo	Aire terrestre protégée	6

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)		50
Grassland		49

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	-
other	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Ali Sabieh - Assâmo (Djibouti). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/ali-sabieh--assâmo-iba-djibouti on 22/11/2024.