SO022
Laag Dheere


IBA Justification

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
Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum LC resident 1997 present A3
Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus LC resident 1997 present A3
Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus LC resident 1997 present A3
Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana LC resident 1997 present A3
White-bellied Go-away-bird Criniferoides leucogaster LC resident 1997 present A3
White-headed Mousebird Colius leucocephalus LC resident 1997 present A3
D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii LC resident 1997 present A3
Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala LC resident 1997 present A3
Red-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris LC resident 1997 present A3
Pygmy Batis Batis perkeo LC resident 1997 present A3
Three-streaked Tchagra Tchagra jamesi LC resident 1997 present A3
Scaly Chatterer Argya aylmeri LC resident 1997 present A3
Shelley's Starling Lamprotornis shelleyi LC resident 1997 present A3
White-crowned Starling Lamprotornis albicapillus LC resident 1997 present A3
African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus LC resident 1997 present A3
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis LC resident 1997 present A3
Black-capped Social-Weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi LC resident 1997 present A3
Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina LC resident 1997 present A3
Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri LC resident 1997 present A3
Somali Sparrow Passer castanopterus LC resident 1997 present A3
Golden Pipit Tmetothylacus tenellus LC resident 1997 present A3

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


Land use

Land use % of IBA
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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Laag Dheere (Somalia). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/laag-dheere-iba-somalia on 22/11/2024.