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The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2007 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 List	Season (year/s of estimate)	Size	IBA criteria
Levant Sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes	LC	breeding (1983–1996)	5–25 pairs	B2
Saker Falcon Falco cherrug	EN	breeding (1996)	1–3 pairs	B2

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
-	Melovye gory Donskoi izluchiny	Nature Monument (III)	-
-	Shokhino	Nature Monument (III)	-
-	Aendemicheskaya flora melovykh otlozheniy	Nature Monument (III)	-
1960	Trekhostrovskoi	Unknown (-)	36

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Grassland	70	Steppes and dry calcareous grassland
Artificial/Terrestrial	20	Arable land
Forest	15	Broadleaved deciduous woodland; Alluvial and very wet forest

Land use	% of IBA
hunting	100
not utilised	50
agriculture	40
forestry	10

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Kalachskaya Loop of Don River (Russia (European)). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/kalachskaya-loop-of-don-river-iba-russia-(european) on 22/12/2024.