Bulanık and Malazgirt Plains (Türkiye)

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Bulanık and Malazgirt Plains This is an IBA in Danger!

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
Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo	LC	breeding	-	10-15 individuals	B1i
Common Crane Grus grus	LC	breeding	-	1-2 breeding pairs	B1i
Common Crane Grus grus	LC	passage	2002	1,000-3,000 individuals	A4i, B1i
Great Bustard Otis tarda	EN	breeding	-	150-250 individuals	A1, B2
Pygmy Cormorant Microcarbo pygmaeus	LC	breeding	1989	10 breeding pairs	A1
Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius	CR	passage	1989	120-155 individuals	A1, A4i, B1i
Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni	NT	passage	1989	1,000 individuals	A1, A4i, B1i
Common Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica	LC	breeding	1989-1996	300 breeding pairs	A4i, B1i, B2
Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus	LC	breeding	-	20-25 breeding pairs	B3

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 (2016) is shown below.

IBA conservation assessment
Year of assessment	State	Pressure	Response
2016	very unfavourable	very high	negligible
Whole site assessed?	State assessed by	Accuracy of information
yes	habitat	medium

State (condition of the trigger species' habitats)
Habitat	Quantity (% remaining)	Quality (% carrying capacity)	Result
Wetlands (inland)	poor (40-69%)	poor (40-69%)	very unfavourable

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Natural system modifications	happening now	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	very rapid to severe deterioration	very high
Transportation and service corridors	happening now	majority/most of area/population (50-90%)	moderate to rapid deterioration	high

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Protected areas	Management plan	Other action	Result
Little/none of site covered (<10%)	No management planning has taken place	Some limited conservation initiatives are in place	negligible

IBA Protection

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
2016	Bulanık Ovası Sulak Alanları	Wetland of National Importance	-

Habitats

Habitat¹	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Wetlands (inland)	Rivers and streams, Water fringe vegetation	65
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land, Ruderal land	30
Grassland	Steppes and dry calcareous grassland	5

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use	% of IBA
not utilised	80
agriculture	20

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Bulanık and Malazgirt Plains (Türkiye). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/bulanık-and-malazgirt-plains-iba-türkiye on 23/11/2024.