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The site was identified as important in 2011 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
Great Bustard Otis tarda	EN	resident	2003	min 189 individuals	A1, C1, C6
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax	LC	breeding	1994	10-20 breeding pairs	C6
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax	LC	passage	2005	present	C6
Western Marsh-harrier Circus aeruginosus	LC	resident	2005	1 breeding pairs	C6
Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni	LC	breeding	2005	25 breeding pairs	C6

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2011) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
2000	Tierra del Pan	Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)	33

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land, Ruderal land	85
Grassland	Steppes and dry calcareous grassland	10
Forest	Broadleaved evergreen woodland	5
Wetlands (inland)	Rivers and streams	-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	95
hunting	50

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Belver de los Montes-Gallegos del Pan (Spain). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/belver-de-los-montes-gallegos-del-pan-iba-spain on 23/11/2024.