Current view: Text account
Site description (2000 baseline):
Site location and context
An area of cereal crops and olive-groves.
This is an important area for steppic species. Species of global conservation concern that do not meet IBA criteria:
Tetrax tetrax (resident) and
Otis tarda (breeding).
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
The main threats are from the conversion of cereal crops to olive-groves, which led to the extinction of
Otis tarda from the site, infrastructure development and drought.
National None
International None
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Jaén countryside (Spain). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/jaén-countryside-iba-spain on 23/11/2024.
