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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
Black-faced Spoonbill Platalea minor	EN	winter	1994	5 individuals	A1
Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo	LC	winter	2000	1,200 individuals	A4i

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

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Artificial/Terrestrial		major (>10)
Marine Intertidal		major (>10)
Marine Neritic		minor (<10)

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
water management	87
agriculture	7
other	5
not utilised	1
urban/industrial/transport	1
energy production and mining	1

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Kaoping River (Taiwan, China). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/kaoping-river-iba-taiwan-china on 23/11/2024.